Clear focused strategy, with aligned leadership and engaged staff, is at the heart of business success. I facilitate strategic conversations and provide high-impact feedback to strengthen executive performance and improve bottom-line results.
Strategic Facilitation & Executive Feedback
Strategic Facilitation
Helping groups have high-impact conversations that generate clarity, enhance focus and strengthen engagement.
Executive Feedback
For a genuine assessment of how you’re doing, you’re going to have to make the first move and ask for it.
About CYGNUS
Find out how your organization can benefit from working with Scott Borland and the CYGNUS team.
FROM THE BLOG
Two Questions For Big Results
Have you ever wanted to get more from your team meetings? Searched for ideas to be more creative and engage staff more meaningfully in group sessions? Two of the most powerful, and often under-utilized questions, can make a big difference to your effectiveness and team performance.... Read more »
Team Work Makes the Dream Work
Top performers are always welcome - except when they disrupt team cohesion and effectiveness. Create a strong foundation to ensure alignment right from the ‘get go’. ... Read more »
Watch Out – Your Talents May Undermine You
Playing to your natural talents as a leader is normally quite helpful and productive… but danger lurks in their consistent application. Here are some suggestions to better apply your gifts in a more nuanced and targeted fashion.... Read more »
Knowledge and Competence Are Overrated – Get Wise
While knowledge and competence are important, wisdom enables better decisions and more effective action, leading to much greater impact and success. ... Read more »
The Fantasy of Strengths
While leveraging a strengths-based approach to leadership development is currently ‘in vogue', minimizing or avoiding pivotal weaknesses is very risky. Leaders can gain big advantages by improving on their ‘soft spots’. ... Read more »
Not So Fast: Leverage Your Expertise with Care
If you’re an experienced leader, the most common temptation is to directly overlay your expertise into a new context. To be truly effective, however, you need to suspend your assumptions about how best to apply that same expertise in new situations and ask a few key questions before diving in.... Read more »
