5 Ways To Help Your Employees and Future Leaders Improve Their Executive Presence
Executive Presence is frequently talked about in the business world. It’s meant to describe those employees who have the “right stuff” for promotion into…
Author: Kaylee Swanson
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Leadership Development and the Foreign Concept of Seeking Feedback
It is our experience from working with hundreds of leaders that the opportunity to actually seek feedback is a foreign concept. So much so that to really stand…
3 Key Ideas for Consistency and Creativity in Leadership Development
In our recent survey “How satisfied are you with your organization’s learning & development”, the majority of first responders are only “somewhat…
7 Bad Leaders Who Can Ruin Your Company’s Reputation
While our firm has the luxury of working with some really terrific companies around helping develop their leaders for the future, not every company understands the need…
6 Steps to Clarity of Vision for Visionary Leadership
If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up people to collect wood and don’t assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of…
Leadership Secrets: Disarm Negativity to Build Team Trust
According to neurological research referenced by the Neuroleadership Institute (NLI), here are two conclusions to consider in disarming negativity and building trust on…
4 Ways to Eliminate Difficult Conversations About Performance Reviews
Performance reviews remain one of the most difficult conversations that most leaders dread having with others. So what can one do to have a positive experience…
Leaders: Will your team still be engaged after summer vacations?
Yes, it’s still springtime, but not to early for leaders to prepare for employee summer vacations. As we have previously covered, vacations give employees a…
4 Key Priorities for Leadership Development in 2015
In a recent survey, we invited you to share your own professional priorities for 2015, identifying areas needing attention to develop your leadership in the months…
4 Reasons Employee Engagement and Retention Should Have Your Attention
You could have heard a pin drop. The SVP of HR was sitting with his CEO and reviewing the recent dismal turnover numbers. For the sixth month in a row, things were not…
3 Reasons Leaders Avoid Being Candid with Peers
In most organizations, there exists an Executive Team, the C-suite executives who set the strategy and the direction of the company at a high level. These leaders are…
Does Your Organization Have the Summertime Blues?
The summer is when people take their vacation, lie on the beach and contemplate their life thinking about what makes them happy, the many stresses they put up with at…