| By Joseph Folkman, www.forbes.com | It’s no secret that I have been deeply interested in analyzing feedback data from multiple angles for years. One area of interest has been the comparison of self-assessed levels of effectiveness to the feedback received from others. It became apparent that most people do not have an accurate measure of their […]
Your Strategic Plans Probably Aren’t Strategic, or Even Plans
| By Graham Kenny, hbr.org | It happens all the time: A group of managers get together at a resort for two days to hammer out a “strategic plan.” Done and dusted, they all head home. But have they produced a plan with a strategy? At the start of my public seminars on strategic planning I ask attendees, who rank from […]
Leadership 101: Four Lessons From The Coach’s Playbook
| By Andy Bailey, www.forbes.com | Just recently, I gathered my whole team together for a 2018 planning session. As with many business coaching teams, we do our planning after the start of the year because we’re busy working with our clients in December and January. Most of the year, we’re on the road, so our annual […]
7 Absolutely Certain Ways to Grow as a Leader
| By Lolly Daskal, www.inc.com | Are you interested in growing as a leader, or just in getting ahead? In my job as a leadership coach, I see lots of people who want to advance. But my work is much easier–and the odds of moving ahead are much better–when the person I’m coaching wants to be coached and is focused on their own […]
Servant Leadership Is Not What You Think
| By Kevin Kruse, www.forbes.com | What is “servant leadership” and how can it make you a better leader? Often in life and work, we become focused on tasks instead of people. If left unchecked, this “results first, team second” mentality can lead to low morale and even lower performances. However, by leading from the ground up […]
3 Common Pieces of Leadership Advice That Are Actually Total BS
| By Jessica Stillman, www.inc.com | Leadership is hard, and what makes for a great leader is harder still to pin down. Excellent leaders vary wildly in their style and approach, and each situation calls for different tactics. Which leaves leadership newbies in a bind. If there’s no set formula for leadership success, how do you learn to do your job […]
The 3 Mental Qualities of Great Leaders
| By Michael Mckinney, www.leadershipnow.com | LEADERSHIP BEGINS in the mind. To lead effectively we must understand what is going on inside of us, so that we can lead ourselves. Only when we have developed a consistent habit of doing that can we then better understand and lead others and then collectively our teams and organizations. In The […]
Making A Great Leader
| By Psychology Today, www.psychologytoday.com | If you were asked to think about what makes a great leader, there are a number of traits you might call to mind, though what traits those happen to be might depend on what leader you call to mind: Hitler, Gandhi, Bush, Martin Luther King Jr, Mao, Clinton, or Lincoln were […]