Goal To provide actionable insights and guidance for leading effectively toward a safe and prosperous ‘new normal.’ Level Setting: The way back will be harder than the way in Despite shutdown fatigue, we are not ‘on the other side’ of the pandemic. It appears that getting ‘there’ will be more journey than event. The challenges …
Goal To provide actionable insights and guidance for leading through public health emergencies, one a new invisible virus (COVID-19) and the other, an also deadly but too often invisible, social ‘virus’ called racism. Where are we now? As Susan Glasser wrote, we entered 2020 with a distinctive 1974 ‘feel’ which had to do with our …
Goal To provide immediately actionable guidance for leading in the next 30-60-90 days of the Covid-19 pandemic. Challenges of This Phase The adrenaline of the first 30 days has been replaced by exhaustion, heightened irritation, and less bandwidth to rise above any of it. At work and at home, it is both getting old and …
Goal To provide immediately actionable guidance so you can be an exceptional leader during times of heightened fear, pressure and uncertainty. Goal A Crisis Requires a Leadership Change A certain level of stress is expected at work. A crisis—such as a global pandemic—is above that level. A crisis is an exceptional time and leaders must …
Ready… Set… If you can answer these questions in fewer than 15 minutes and be content with your answers, then you likely have no pressing need for additional leadership support. Check your watch now and… Go! In your own words, what is a leader and how is it different than a manager? What characterizes a …
Congratulations! You got the job! Take a day to celebrate but after that, it’s time to get to work. Your first 100 days can make or break your transition. A new role means new responsibilities. To be successful at these means that you must give up some former responsibilities—even things you enjoy and do well. …
How well do we know each other? Before trying to ‘fix’ a key partnership, it is important to be sure you have invested time ‘getting to know each other’ as people as well as professionals as well as partners.
A template for Leaders Serious About Driving Change Most organizational change efforts fail. The calls to action issued by many leaders create more confusion than focus, more work versus different work, some ‘new talk’, but no ‘new walk.’ The good news is that most employees want to do things better. But they don’t want to …
What sells in your organization? I love a good PowerPoint presentation. It’s great to be entertained with graphics and sound bites. But it’s dangerous for any of us to confuse the sizzle of a business proposal with the “steak” of true content.
Capture the Essence of Your Leadership Agenda—on One Page! The Personal Leadership Statement© (PLS) identifies, on one-page, the essence of our individual leadership platform in a current assignment. Individual leadership platforms support, and flow from larger (i.e., organizational, business unit, functional) agendas. In the PLS, we clarify our individual leadership accountability for a specific contribution …
