Navigating Turbulence: Using Feedback to Smooth the Ride
Seeking out (and acting on) targeted feedback improves performance and reduces turnover of senior leaders. There are a number of ways to gather and implement this feedback…… Read more »
Author Archives: Scott Borland
Looking in the Mirror: Better Board Evaluation
In today’s rapidly shifting and complex world, boards have a critical and demanding role to play. And it just keeps getting more challenging all the time, particularly during our current… Read more »
Making Sense of Trust in the Workplace
Trust is paramount when it comes to effective workplace relationships. If you trust your team members, colleagues and senior leaders, you’ll get more done, enjoy greater job satisfaction and see… Read more »
Dialed-In or Tuned-Out?
Dialed-In or Tuned-Out? 7 Considerations to Make Better Sense of Employee Engagement Results As I was wrapping up some project meetings this week, two division managers from different companies mentioned… Read more »
When Design Trumps Leadership
I’m always surprised how some key ‘truths’ emerge on a recurring basis as I work with senior leaders on the application of performance feedback. One of the biggest insights is… Read more »
How To Get The “Straight Goods”
Most of us know that obtaining feedback from others is critical to both self-awareness and self-improvement – without it we really don’t know how we’re doing. And most of us… Read more »
Getting So Much More from 360 Feedback
The use of multi-rater or 360 feedback is now common practice within many organizations. Whether it be an online survey-based format, narrative interview-based approach or some combination of the two,… Read more »
Successful Transformation: 7 Questions for Top Teams
Change and transformation are in the air as we enter the New Year. It’s all around us – loads of information related to personal improvement (e.g. better fitness, improved finances… Read more »
Starting At The Top: Strategy & Executive Behaviour
Over the past 15 years, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to work with top management teams on a variety of key business issues, particularly those related to creating and then implementing… Read more »
The Value of Being Both Here and There
As we experience all the joys, and occasional frustrations, of the holiday season I’m reminded of this year’s favorite mantra – ‘mindfulness’. It was a hot topic, appearing in countless… Read more »
Strategy is Alive and Well, Despite Rumors to the Contrary
In response to persistent and incorrect rumors, Mark Twain once wrote at the cusp of the 20th century – ‘reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated’. Along the same… Read more »
Changing the Conversation at the Top
Do you want to get more meaningful conversations taking place during your top team meetings? Experience greater participation and more authentic conversations from everyone in the meeting? Move beyond strengthening… Read more »
Short & Focused Makes for Better Strategy
In my experience, leadership teams get together every so often to discuss strategy in dedicated one, two or three day sessions. These ‘events’ are usually fairly structured with set agendas… Read more »
Making Sense of the Assessment Maze
If work life sometimes feels like a rat race, then the selection and application of workplace assessments can sometimes feel like a long and complicated maze. If your workplace is… Read more »
Successful Strategy Implementation: It’s All About Resolve
In my work with leadership teams on strategy, we inevitably get to a place where implementation is the next step in the process. And, as David Maister points out in… Read more »
Use Summer Downtime to Refresh Your Competencies
As we head into the summer season, business often takes a back seat to some of the enticements of the world around us. Vacations, outdoor activities and longer lunches seem… Read more »
Building Stronger Alliances: 5 Key Questions for Success
Building Stronger Alliances: 5 Key Questions for Success It’s obvious these days that organizations of all types, across all sectors, are squeezed to get more value from the resources that… Read more »
Focus On The Experience To Enhance Project Success
Focusing on the Experience – Five Strategies to Enhance Project Success Each year, as spring takes hold, I find myself mentally summarizing all the projects that I could or should… Read more »
New Strategies: 5 Ways to Increase Confidence & Uptake
How many times have you found yourself wandering around the aisles looking for that ‘right’ bottle of wine for a special occasion, house party or special dinner with friends? Stymied… Read more »
Narrative vs. Survey-based 360° Feedback
Narrative vs. Survey-based 360° Feedback – Five Key Considerations These days, I seem to be getting more frequent inquiries regarding the benefits of narrative 360° feedback verses survey-based 360° feedback.… Read more »
Six Lenses to Leadership Effectiveness
How often have you found yourself talking with colleagues about the behaviour of other leaders in your organization? It’s a pretty common experience, especially when something major or challenging is… Read more »
5 Holiday Dinner Leadership Lessons
Prepping the Big Holiday Dinner – Five Ways to Serve Up the Work We’re well into the holiday season and all the preparations that go along with the festivities. Needless… Read more »
The Boardroom Movie Star
Frame The Discussion Up Front to Create a Hollywood Ending to Your Boardroom Meetings Friday evening … that wonderful time when the cares of the workplace can be put on… Read more »
Undercurrents in the Boardroom
Have you ever been to a board meeting that got off track? Where presenters were blindsided by questions, discussions got overly heated or significant issues were left unresolved? Undercurrents in… Read more »
Survey-Based 360º Feedback
What Is 360º Feedback? 360° feedback is a well-tested method to improve individual, team and organizational performance. Unlike traditional feedback processes, 360° feedback collects data from multiple perspectives. Responders provide… Read more »
