Developing an engaging and inspiring strategic direction for your organization is a critical component to success. But it’s not enough: Top leaders need to articulate their own ‘slice’ of the strategy that showcases a clear sense of their passion and commitment to the journey ahead. … Read more »
Tapping more effectively into your organization’s rhythms will enable you to drive change and realize improved results. The challenge is to understand those rhythms and determine how best to leverage them to your advantage. … Read more »
Taking the ‘safe’ route when crafting strategy can create unforeseen and undesirable outcomes. While it may seem intuitive to take advantage of emerging opportunities while avoiding risks, it may ‘cost’ much more to a company’s vitality and health. … Read more »
Giving and receiving feedback is vital to successful leadership performance. In many cases, senior leaders provide significantly more feedback than they actually receive. To ensure a better balance between the ‘give’ and ‘get’, here are 6 key steps to take…… Read more »
Without executive presence, aspiring mid-level leaders will find their route to bigger roles severely limited. Several key qualities define this elusive attribute – but the good news is that they can be developed.… Read more »
Leveraging the benefits of matrix design for your work group can provide big payoffs, but the challenges are many. As team leader, there are some essentials you need to put in place to ensure success. … Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
While knowledge and competence are important, wisdom enables better decisions and more effective action, leading to much greater impact and success. … Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
