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Now that many of you are adapting to working from home and virtually managing team members has become a very necessary fact of life, we are offering some practical tips to lay the foundation for maintaining engaged, emotionally connected, and highly effective teams in...
Lessons About Leadership and Purpose from Danielle Drummond As an executive coach, I am inspired by leaders who make decisions that are consistent with their values and exhibit courage as they lead others to achieve not only the goals of their organizations but their...
Every organization, from a small business to a large corporation, has a culture. The culture determines the spoken - and unspoken - expectations and rules of engagement for how employees will interact, relate, lead, communicate, and solve problems together. When you...
I recently facilitated an Advanced Management Training Workshop Series for the Lakeland Chamber of Commerce. As part of the series that covered topics such as communicating for impact and cultivating a strong leadership presence, Michelle Ledford joined us to share...
Family businesses are all around us—from privately owned neighborhood mom-and-pop stores to publicly held household names such as Wal-Mart, Ford, and Cargill. Family-owned businesses are the backbone of the American economy. According to the US Census Bureau, 90% of...
At the recent Working Women Annual Conference in Tampa, I had the opportunity to facilitate a fireside chat with Shelly Wilkes, President of the Lakeland Magic, the G league affiliate of the Orlando Magic. Shelly is the first female NBA G league president and is...
Lately it seems as though every week there is a new “first” headline about women in leadership. GM recently became the first car company to have a female CEO and CFO; more than half of the Philadelphia Eagle’s executive leaders are women – a first for an NFL team and...
“A coach is someone who tells you what you don’t want to hear, who has you see what you don’t want to see, so you can be who you always knew you could be.” ~Tom Landry Why is it that we rarely think twice about a professional athlete or musician having a coach...
“Strategy is about making choices, trade-offs; it’s about deliberately choosing to be different.” ~Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor Strategic planning is an organizational management activity that is used to set priorities, focus energy and resources,...
As many of you know, I’m a horsewoman following in the footsteps of my mother, grandmother, and my Mom’s Aunt Fay, a legendary ranchwoman. Photos I have seen through the years of these women on horseback symbolize to me freedom, connection and partnership. While I...
Most of us multitask because of the perceived benefit of improved productivity. It makes us feel like we’re accomplishing several things at once and gives us a false sense of achievement. Here are 5 reasons why multitasking doesn’t work.
Ready or not, it’s coming. Change, that is. Seventy-seven percent of human resource practitioners and leaders report that their organization is in a state of constant change. This latest research, conducted by the International Coach Federation and Human Capital Institute validates what many people in organizations around the nation are experiencing – continuously shifting priorities and strategies.
This article offers 10 guidelines for successfully navigating a new leadership role and tips on pitfalls to avoid.
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Change can be difficult and people often resist it. If your team is not prepared for change, keeping up with the pace of change, and willing to embrace change, your organization risks becoming irrelevant. This guide is intended to provide a framework for intentionally talking about the change you want to create, ensure the roles that are vital to the change process are clearly understood, and to define the conditions necessary for creating intelligent change.