5 Keys to Building Leaders for the Future
“Leaders don’t create followers, they create more leaders.” – Tom Peters It seems like every time we open an annual survey about the state…
Author: Kaylee Swanson
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New Leader Onboarding: Time to Go Back to School
“Everyone and everything around you is your teacher.”- Ken Keyes, Jr. It’s that time again, time when the kids go back to school. With both of my boys…
3 Reasons Your Company Needs a 360 Feedback Program to Develop Leaders
It is no secret that well over 90% of all Fortune 500 companies use a 360° survey or multi-rater assessment to determine the effectiveness of their key leaders. The key…
The Power of Resilient Leadership
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic. – Peter Drucker Some of today’s seasoned executives…
Leadership Coaching is a Business Solution
Leadership Coaching Positively Impacts the Individual, the Team and the Culture In the relatively short span of time since leadership coaching hit the business…
Five Steps to Effective, High-Functioning Teams
Teams share the burden, and divide the grief.” – Doug Smith The corporate world’s answer to the growing challenges of business seems to be a whole room…
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Silos, Wherever You Go
“In most situations, silos rise up not because of what executives are doing purposefully…but rather because of what they are failing to do: provide…
The Top 4 Reasons Your Team Needs an Annual Retreat
“Teams share the burden, and divide the grief.” – Doug Smith We do a lot of work with teams and most of the time we are called in when a senior team is…
5 Reasons to Train Your Managers
According to Bersin’s 2012 Leadership Development Factbook, a combination of online surveys and qualitative interviews with over 379 companies, leadership…
50 Ways a Leader Inspires Others
Recently, we heard about a series of books and articles that find ways to accumulate “50” ways to do something. And, since we passionately believe that one…
The Case for Vulnerable Leaders at Work and Home
I just picked up a fascinating book by Brene Brown titled, “Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent and Lead”. This…
What Employees Really Want: Kindness in the Workplace
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.” –Scott Adams, “Dilbert Comics” Our firm…