| By Stephanie Denning, www.forbes.com | If you’re in the business of being a woman, you know that being a woman in business is not straightforward. To navigate that path, a natural starting point is to turn to other women in business. But the higher up you go, the fewer role models you find. Until one day […]
4 Signs Your Leadership Team Needs Help
| By Susan Steinbrecher, www.inc.com | Leaders in all sectors across the board continue to realize that feedback and self-improvement feeds into the old adage “knowledge is power,” and is certainly not a sign of weakness. An executive coach can help you solve problems, offer honest feedback and bolster leadership skills. The most predominant impetus for a coaching […]
The Servant Leader vs the Human Ego
| By Ken Blanchard, www.greatleadershipbydan.com | Most people who consider themselves servant leaders spend the majority of their time thinking about how to help their people get what they need to achieve their goals and live according to the organizational vision. These leaders want to make a difference in their organizations and in the lives of their […]
The Power of Listening in Helping People Change
| By Guy Itzchakov, Avraham N. and Kluger, hbr.org | Giving performance feedback is one of the most common ways managers help their subordinates learn and improve. Yet, research revealed that feedback could actually hurt performance: More than 20 years ago, one of us (Kluger) analyzed 607 experiments on feedback effectiveness and found that feedback caused performance to decline in […]
Six Essentials Proven To Produce Results For Your Women’s Leadership Program
| By Cari Coats, www.forbes.com | Corporations across the globe are working to solve their gender leadership gaps. Study after study reveals the financial and competitive advantages to greater gender balance in executive and board leadership ranks. Leadership development programs for women proliferate. But there’s just one problem: Many of them don’t seem to be moving the […]
How to Get People to Accept a Tough Decision
| By David Maxfield, hbr.rg | Imagine this: You’re a general manager for a manufacturing company and orders are up. You know you should be celebrating, but instead, you feel gut punched. Your plants are facing severe capacity and material constraints and you know you can’t fill these orders. Now you have to decide which ones to […]
Top 5 Ways That Otherwise Good Leaders Fail
| By Ron Riggio for Psychology Today | I’ve worked for a lot of bosses, and in the course of consulting and networking, I’ve been able to observe hundreds of leaders. The good leaders stand out. They are effective, and generally admired in their organizations. But even the very best leaders make mistakes, and those mistakes often negatively […]
Leadership Small Groups are Key to Culture Change
Leadership Freak In my journey of transforming a corporate culture to one that is servant-led, I’ve learned the value of leadership small groups. The purpose of leadership small groups is to create a safe environment for leaders to discuss the challenges they are having in changing the culture. In our company, Datron, anyone with a […]