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Every leader has faced the challenge of spearheading a strategic initiative that went off track. When this happened to you, were you able to identify the cause of the setback and quickly guide your team back on course? Perhaps there was misalignment about...
“Not finance. Not strategy. Not technology. It is teamwork that remains the ultimate competitive advantage, both because it is so powerful and so rare.” ~Patrick Lencioni Whether you own a business, manage a group of employees, or lead a team of outside contractors...
Gallop defines employee engagement as the involvement and enthusiasm of employees in their work and workplace, and their 2022 State of the Global Workplace Report reveals that our global economy loses $7.8 trillion due to low engagement. Are your team members...
Are leaders born or made? I believe we are all born with innate strengths and styles. I also believe that leaders are made when they consciously put those innate strengths and styles to good use and mitigate weakness by surrounding themselves with people that bring...
Often, I begin an executive coaching engagement or leadership development training with this series of questions: When you are operating at your highest and best as a leader, what are you doing? Who are you being? What is the impact? These questions are designed to...
As we emerge from the Covid-19 crisis and embark on the next normal, now is the ideal time to re-engage and re-fuel your team for success. Whether your teams are reconvening in person, continuing to work virtually, or are navigating a new hybrid work environment,...
Let's face it. The last few months have been anything but normal. Leaders have made a rushed conversion to remote working teams and managed the complexities of overseeing newly distanced employees. And just as the routines of remote work started to stabilize,...
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...
“If you’re going to live, leave a legacy. Make a mark on the world that can’t be erased.” ~ Maya Angelou Your leadership legacy is the impact and influence you have on others over your tenure as a leader and it is formed by the guiding principles you apply most...
“Down deep in every human soul is a hidden longing, impulse, and ambition to do something fine and enduring.” ~Grenville Kleiser Nearly 10 years ago, I had the privilege of attending a conference where Marc Pritchard, Chief Brand Officer at Procter & Gamble spoke...
Every leader has faced the challenge of spearheading a strategic initiative that went off track. When this happened to you, were you able to identify the cause of the setback and quickly guide your team back on course? Perhaps there was misalignment about...
If you’ve ever struggled as a leader with how to meaningfully connect with your team members while staying focused on achieving your organization's goals, you’re not alone. The generative tension that exists between demonstrating care and concern for others and...
Kim Long as the Executive Director for Polk Vision, leads a county-wide collective impact organization dedicated to aligning resources across Polk County. Prior to her current position, Kim’s varied career spans the corporate, non-profit, and private sectors and she...
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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.