How Recruiting Fails: Leadership Learning
This week’s Step Up Leader Tips focuses on a key leadership competency: recruiting talent. During my past life as a vice president of a retained executive search firm, I learned how much opportunity there is to educate companies for a more successful recruiting experience. Large organizations have HR departments and often employ internal recruiters or […]
As a Leader, What Are You Choosing?
This week’s Step Up Leader Tips looks at a common leadership problem I see in many client organizations: choosing leadership that becomes contracted and reactive, leading to poor or no decision-making and lackluster results. Consider my client Jon. He came to our call today concerned about his business. One of his big clients wasn’t moving […]
Leadership Spring Cleaning: Getting Your House in Order for Productivity.
In honor of the beginning of spring, for the next two weeks Step Up Tips will offer information to help you increase your leadership productivity—using effective tools to change habits. Take my new client Linda. She recently came to me with two big goals for our work together; one is helping her create a productivity […]
Do You Talk Out Loud Enough?
As a leader, do you talk out loud enough? Typically leaders are believed to process information and search for answers quietly in a guise of control. After several client sessions last week, I became curious as to whether that habit is the best case scenario. When asking them for one or two valuable take-aways from […]
How do you make your leadership development sticky?
This week’s Step Up Tips and Tools borrows from a book review in Leading Blog that reviews what is required to make your leadership sustainable. I have worked with many leaders who became frustrated after they’ve invested in training, development, and perhaps even coaching, yet are unable to make what they learn “sticky. To sustain […]