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
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 »
Are You Leveraging Your ‘Secret Sauce?’
Each of us have unique abilities or competencies that tap into who we are and what we’re particularly good at - our 'secret sauces'. As leader, it’s critical to leverage your unique ‘secret sauce’ to realize real success for yourself, your team and your organization. ... Read more »
Can We Count on You?
Ensuring accountability needs to be a key focus of all leaders - particularly those in higher profile roles. Whether staff or board member, the consequences of weak accountability can be significant - from diminished reputation and constraints on career progression to actual job security or board tenure. ... Read more »
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 »
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 »
