Setting the Table for Strategy Conversations
Thinking about a strategy refresh for your organization? Set the table with these six key steps to strengthen alignment and improve outcomes in terms of commitment and execution. … Read more »
Author Archives: Scott Borland
Let Humility Steer Your Leader(ship)
Research shows that leaders who consistently demonstrate humility listen better, inspire more effective teamwork and realize greater organizational performance. Implementing these 6 suggestions will help strengthen your leadership humility.… Read more »
When the Walk Doesn’t Match the Talk
As a leader, ensuring your actions match your stated commitments is crucial to building trust and inspiring the best in others. In real life, however, you may take action that appears to run counter to what you’ve championed. There are some key steps you can take to avoid or minimize these kinds of ‘quicksand’ scenarios.… Read more »
Get Real: Share Your ‘Sideways’ Stories
Events that go ‘sideways’ are often the source of real learnings. You’ll garner greater interest & create more impactful learning when you share stories with your team about how things have gone sideways in your own world of work. … Read more »
Strengthening Alignment: Getting on the Same Page
Often, getting a group of people aligned and moving forward in the same direction can be very challenging, if not downright impossible. If you’re seeking better alignment for your group or team, here are some time-proven suggestions for getting on the same page.… Read more »
Speaking Truth to Power
Many leaders are unwilling to hear honest feedback without becoming defensive, but it’s more important than ever in today’s rapidly changing marketplace that people speak up and leaders listen to ensure sustainable success.… Read more »
Realizing Success: The Importance of Sub-Cultures
One of the most consistent themes in performance feedback for senior leaders relates to their personal influence and impact on organizational culture. Whether it’s to strengthen, modify or even transform… Read more »
Emphasize Leadership for Strategy Success
Far too often, businesses will invest significant time and effort into creating and implementing an innovative strategy, only to see it flounder from the lack of effective leadership. Here are some key behaviours that can be leveraged for success…… Read more »
CEO Tenure: How Long Is Too Long?
Most of us can provide examples of top-level performers in sports, politics and performance arts who have stayed on past their prime, much to the detriment of their reputation – and their team. The same applies to organizational leaders: there is an opportune time to leave. Five key questions can assist in this reflection and decision-making…… Read more »
Reviewing Your CEO? Seven Key Tips for a Smoother Ride and a Successful Review
Every board clearly wants its CEO to succeed, and one of the best ways to do that is to provide meaningful feedback. Designing your CEO feedback process to be credible, transparent and effective requires these 7 several foundational items…… Read more »
Vision Critical: 7 Attributes That Will Turn Your Company’s Vision into Engaging Narrative
More than ever, uniting your organization around a common vision is critical to successful change in today’s rapidly changing workplace. These seven key attributes will turn your company’s vision into engaging narrative.… Read more »
Leadership Competencies – A Better Way
Developing leadership talent is crucial to success in today’s challenging business environment. Defining leadership expectations and requirements can be challenging but there are ways to ensure simplicity, flexibility and relevance amidst constant market and technological changes. … Read more »
Complacency Stalks Your Workplace
Complacency stalks your team and organization, particularly when times are good. But it’s a dangerous belief – it’s also one that the market, your clients and other competitors will be sure to demolish. To keep your edge, and avoid unintended complacency, here are some key actions that you can take.… Read more »
Enhancing Uptake on Leadership Development
With the magnitude of resources available to nurture and develop leadership talent, the big question is why meaningful individual and team progress often feels so elusive. Last week, I circled… Read more »
Accelerating Your Change Efforts
With so many organizations undergoing change these days, it’s not surprising that leaders are pulling out all the stops to ensure that they’re successfully adapting and thriving in today’s marketplace.… Read more »
Balancing Change and Performance Agendas
Getting team members inspired, aligned and on board for the journey ahead is a key priority for most leaders. Here are some suggestions to keep your team engaged and on track…… Read more »
Accelerating Change: Leveraging Leadership Presence
You’ve seen it happen again and again, companies needing to change direction to respond to the changing world around them. And along with an updated or new business model comes… Read more »
Make it Count – Customizing Your Feedback
In the workplace, feedback is one of the most valuable performance improvement tools for leaders and their teams, yet it can often be a source of anxiety or even animosity. Fortunately, the secrets to constructive feedback can be applied with a bit of focused learning.… Read more »
Support From All Directions
Far too often, senior leaders are isolated from meaningful feedback that can help them make the changes needed to be even more effective. Here’s how to overcome this feedback hurdle.… Read more »
Too Much Deference: Changing the Pattern
Some degree of deference in organizations is both necessary and healthy. However, too much can lead to resentment, frustration, lower engagement and poor decisions. … Read more »
Hold Off on the Goals – Set a Vision
Before you begin setting goals for the year ahead, it’s important to have a clear vision of the end result and what ‘success’ really means.… Read more »
Getting More from Your Team
Most leaders admit that they’d like to improve the performance of their teams. Some of the most effective tips and tactics to achieve this are on the ‘softer’ side…..… Read more »
Building Trusted Relationships
Who you know and how you engage those individuals is critical to getting significant things accomplished in a business environment. Here are seven ways to strengthen your workplace relationships:… Read more »
Why Is It All So Generic?
Avoiding herd mentality and ‘blandness’ is vital to uncovering the key behaviours your leaders need to advance key priorities and make needed changes. These five questions will help you frame your process of exploration and discovery…… Read more »
Make Your Refresh Count
Over the past two weeks, three senior leaders in different companies have inquired about their desire to update a key aspect of their business. It seems that as summer winds… Read more »
