While virtually every leader has a sense of what “authenticity” means, few know how to develop it as a skill. As a result, leadership teams espouse it as a value, but it ends up as a lofty word on a mission statement. Authentic leadership is more important than you might think. From what our coaches […]
How to Hold on to Top Talent without Spoiling Them Rotten with Executive Coaching
Executive coaching helps organizations get the most out of their high-potential programs. One strategy for developing good leadership is to identify “high-po” employees, and to enroll them in programs designed to help them reach maximum potential. But are “high-potential” programs really good for your organization? Or do the negative effects of such programs outweigh […]
Do You Have the “KLT Factor?”
In Webster’s Dictionary, trust is defined as “the firm belief in the reliability, truth, ability, or strength of someone or something.” But while we can package the word “trust” neatly in this definition, it’s rarely so easy to determine why we are or are not trusted, why we trust someone or we don’t. Maybe […]
On Leadership and Conversation
Harvard Business Review recently published an article titled “Leadership is a Conversation” in their June 2012 edition, that discussed the waning of the traditional top-down, command-and-control approach to management. The article cites a bunch of reasons why this model has gone by the wayside, including globalization, new technologies, and the new ways in which companies […]