It's Time to Lead

Watching culture change happen within a business is something that makes a lasting impression.  There are many organizations that don’t understand why culture is so important and many more that want to change it but don’t know how.  I’ve even read articles like this one, that suggest it may not even be possible. Culture change, to [...]

Most of the companies I work with dedicate some percentage of their revenue toward developing the leaders in their business.   One of the discussions we often have up front is the difference between spending money to train leaders and investing to grow them. I spend money on a nice dinner; I invest in my retirement.  [...]

It’s hard to work in the area of developing leaders without addressing the issue of management versus leadership.  Much debate has been had about what each of these words means in the business world and which one is more important.  Recently, I’ve even heard a lot of discussion about the issue of individuals leading too [...]

Often, when organizations are trying to make change happen, it comes down to a couple of levers that they need to pull to start the motion.  It might be organizational structure, or process, or communication.  Almost always, it’s a combination of things that need to be addressed in order to cause change to happen.  But [...]

On last week’s post about bringing leaders onboard in your business more effectively, I received a question about how to hire the right leaders in the first place.  I have a few clients that I am working with to solve that issue as well, so it leads us to this week’s post on how to [...]

I was working with a company recently that was looking for a way to improve the success of the leaders they bring into the organization.  They had hired several senior executives only to watch them struggle and ultimately leave or be forced out within the first 18 months. What’s interesting is that the amount of [...]

One of the most basic questions leaders often ask is how do I get the people in the organization to do what the organization needs them to.  I was working with the president of a multi-billion dollar business when he said, “my biggest problem is that I know exactly what the people in this business [...]

Typically when I start coaching a new client, I spend our first meeting doing a lot of listening.  It doesn’t take long to figure outwhere the opportunities are to help someone if you just let them talk for a while.  A while back I was coaching an executive and he spent a great deal of [...]

In my last post I talked about the research done recently indicating that employee satisfaction across the country has tumbled to an all time low of 45%.  I listed one key to creating organizational satisfaction and in this post I’d like to touch on two more.  Take a look at my first post here to [...]

I was reading some research done recently by the conference board that said employee satisfaction across the country had dropped to an all time low of 45%.  If it’s anywhere near accurate, it means that for the first time since we started measuring it, over half of us are unhappy in our jobs.  The other [...]