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3 Ways to Ensure Your Employees Connect with Your Strategic Plan
Congratulations! You just returned from your annual strategic planning summit. You gathered economic, competitor, and market data. You compared the strengths and weaknesses of your organization with external opportunities and threats. You decided where to tweak your...
Is Your Leadership Training Program Designed to Fail?
My team and I have delivered training programs to thousands of executives around the world. Some are in the form of lunch-and-learns. Others are delivered over the course of several consecutive days. While we love putting on “edu-taining” programs, we’re starting to push...
How to Survive a Negative 360 Degree Review
In my work as a leadership consultant, clients often tell me that they would welcome 360-degree feedback on their performance. 360-degree feedback is a process where not just the manager but peers and direct reports and sometimes even customers evaluate someone’s...
10 Goals for the Manager as Coach by Michael J. Coffey, MA
This week's post was written by my friend and Center for Executive Excellence Senior Executive Consultant, Michael Coffey. Michael actually trained me in how to be a more effective leader before Center for Executive Excellence was founded. There are few people who I trust...
Are Your Managers Ghosting Your Employees?
Today’s organizations are fighting a workforce trifecta of facts. Fact 1: There are a million more job openings in the U.S. than workers to fill them. Fact 2: The employee quit rate in the U.S. has hit a 17-year high. Fact 3: Workplace burnout is being upgraded by the...
7 Leadership Books to Read This Summer
Looking for some titles to add to your reading list this summer? From brand new bestsellers, to stories that reveal the difference between power and true leadership in an increasingly complex, hyper-connected world, here are seven titles that are well worth picking up:...
5 Leadership Lessons We Can Learn from Dads
Father’s Day is coming up on Sunday. This is an excellent opportunity to show appreciation for the men in the world who take the role of dad to the next level. Here are five leadership lessons we can learn from the endearing dads of the world. 1. Be okay with not always...
6 Commencement Speeches to Inspire College Graduates and Senior Executives Alike
This is the time of the year that many of us attend the Pomp and Circumstance processional at graduation ceremonies across the country. I’ve curated six of the best commencement speeches for advice that could be applied by both freshly minted graduates and senior...
5 Quotable Takeaways from the 2019 Re:Imagine Leadership Summit
When I stood to address the audience at the 4th Annual Re:Imagine Leadership Summit last week, I felt like the hostess of a cocktail party. I couldn’t wait for the guests to mingle and experience an event that my team and I had been curating for months. Several...
3 Best Ways To Overcome Resistance
Sitting in the queue for takeoff from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport, a father spoke softly to his son who was gripping the armrests in white-knuckled terror. Though I could not hear their exchange, I recognized the look on the boy’s face. It’s the same one I often see...
Busting out of the Bias Bubble: The Good and the Bad News
A son and his father are in a horrible car accident. The father dies on impact. The son, who is severely injured, is rushed to the hospital. The surgeon looks at the son, and immediately says, “I can’t operate. The boy is my son.” How can that be? The surgeon is the boy’s...
My Top 6 Takeaways from the 2019 San Diego Women’s Week Leadership Conference
Last week, I attended the 10th Annual Women’s Week Leadership Conference in San Diego. The conference caps off a week of events sponsored by the North San Diego Business Chamber designed to inspire, empower and connect women of all ages and professions in honor of Women’s...