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...
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Five Ways to Achieve Results that Matter
“You can’t improve what you don’t measure and generally, whatever you measure…improves.” ~ HP Motto Your shareholders demand outstanding results, your customers expect an experience that sets your brand apart from your competitors, and your most valuable employees...
Why Systems Awareness Is Essential To Legacy Leadership
Like an ecosystem in nature, functional and departmental groupings in an organization are interconnected and interdependent, with the health of one group impacting all others in the system. Organizations are made up of a complex web of relationships, processes, and...
Creating Intelligent Change
Change is constant, inevitable and natural - particularly in a dynamic business environment. Throughout the business cycle, change is something that typically happens as a reaction to circumstances. Human beings generally don’t like change and we tend to hope that...
Leadership Development: The Importance of Meaningful Feedback
Developing leaders at various levels in an organization is a strategic imperative for most businesses. Yet it falls into the “important and not urgent” box on an Eisenhower Matrix (also known as Urgent-Important Matrix), often getting sidelined by necessary day-to-day...
Family is a Family Business’s Greatest Liability – and its Greatest Asset
Family businesses are all around us—from neighborhood mom-and-pop stores to household names such as BMW, Samsung, and Wal-Mart Stores. Approximately 80% of all businesses in the United States are classified as a family business, meaning that a family owns a...
Creating Conditions for Teams to Thrive
Whether you own a business, manage a group of employees or lead a team of outside contractors that support your enterprise, it is more important than ever to create the conditions for your team to collectively achieve your vision of the future and generate...
Inner Game Focus Creates Outer Game Impact
When an Olympic athlete steps onto a field of play after years of rigorous training and refinement of their technical skills, it is their mindset– their inner game –that makes the difference between the glory of gold or the acceptance of silver. The ability of an...
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How Designing Alliances Will Cultivate Cohesive Teams
Every leader has been involved in spearheading a strategic initiative that has gotten off track. When this has happened to you, were you able to identify the cause of the setback and quickly get your team back on track? Perhaps there was some misalignment about...
Leading with a Sense of Discovery and Purpose: A conversation with Ana E. Wood
My most recent leadership conversation was with Ana E. Wood, Waste & Recycling Director for Polk County Board of County Commissioners. Wood has responsibility for all field operations, including the environmental and social impact of waste management activities....
Women Are Already Empowered; Organizational Systems Need To Catch Up
The rise of women in leadership over the past decade would not have been possible without the gritty, strong-minded, trailblazing female luminaries that came before them. Disruptors like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton who fought for women’s right to vote,...