by admin | Jun 18, 2020 | Conflict, cross cultural understanding, Emotional Intelligence, Influencing, Latest Updates, Leadership self development
Some leaders are making significant changes in how they think and act since COVID-19 turned the world upside down. This client’s story highlights lessons for many of us. When she was ten years old Sonia’s family immigrated to the United States from the Middle East....
by admin | Apr 11, 2017 | Collaborating, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Influencing, Latest Updates, Leadership self development, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
Every client I work with complains that they need more effective cross-organizational collaboration. They say that collaboration is more crucial than ever, due to increasingly complex environments and the speed of change. Yet people still work in their silos and spend...
by admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Blog (All Categories), Collaborating, Conflict, creative leadership, creativity, Emotional Intelligence, Executive Teams, Influencing, Latest Updates, Leadership Teams, Organizational Change
I can’t blame you if you greet this post with skepticism. Leadership and poetry seems like an oxymoron, like rain and San Diego. I’m even a little surprised you are still reading. But here are lessons from two senior executives who recently used poetry to align their...
by admin | Sep 20, 2016 | Emotional Intelligence, Influencing, Latest Updates, Leadership self development, Leadership Skills, Self-Awareness
I hate to say it, but several people I work with have annoying habits. Some interrupt too much, some don’t say what’s really on their minds, some are so detail-oriented they make my teeth ache. But I too inflict an annoying habit on others: I often indirectly ask for...
by admin | Aug 10, 2016 | Collaborating, Conflict, Emotional Intelligence, Influencing, Latest Updates, Leadership self development, Self-Awareness
Ann was upset with her boss. During a leadership program I was conducting she complained that he scheduled team meetings every Friday at 5pm. Oh, I said, 5pm on a Friday does sound like an unproductive time to meet. When I asked what her boss said when she confronted...
by admin | Jun 7, 2016 | Collaborating, cross cultural understanding, Influencing, Organizational Culture
A client from Amsterdam used to watch me facilitate leadership programs for his company’s executives. At the end of each session I’d ask him how he thought it went. Mark would look very serious and say, “Robert, not everything is AWESOME.” He’d pronounce...
