5 Ways to Maintain the Status Quo During Times of Change
No, really, the title of this post isnt meant to be sarcasm. The idea came from a recent email from a reader, titled Maintaining the Momentum...
View ArticleA Simple High Performance Model
PLEASE steal it, adapt it, (there's no copyright), use it to assess talent, and stop tolerating crappy behavior in exchange for results.
View Article"Fun" at Work
With all due respect to Google, Zappos, and these guys, here are 11 real-life examples Ive seen managers try to force their employees to lighten up and have some fun at work....
View ArticleNew Leader Onboarding: Stakeholder Interviews
An effective new leader onboarding process can greatly reduce the time it takes a new leader to get up to speed, improve teamwork, and improve retention. Most organizations do a pretty decent job at...
View Article10 Ways to Sabotage a 360 Assessment
Theres been a lot written about how organizations can design and implement bullet proof 360 assessment programs. However, very little guidance has been provided to the hapless manager who ends up on...
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Don't Be "That Guy" as a Manager
I’m noticing a lot of references to “that guy” these days. Maybe because I work at a college campus? There’s no shortage of that guy references, including references to all kinds of things you...
View ArticleHow to Involve Participants in a Leadership Training Program
"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand” -- Confucius Even the most brilliant, credible, and talented instructors with the most dazzling PowerPoint slides won’t guarantee...
View ArticleGot a Bad Boss? Do the Opposite
One of the best ways to learn leadership is from your bosses – both good and bad ones. It’s a pretty simple technique – emulate the good ones and do the opposite of the bad ones. Given that most of us...
View ArticleThe 2011 Global Top 25 Companies for Leaders
Last month Aon Hewitt, The RBL Group and Fortune announced their Global Top Companies for Leaders list. It's been two years since the last list, not to be confused with the competing "Best Companies...
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10 Ways to Select Participants for a Leadership Development Program
A colleague and I recently talked about the challenge of selecting participants for leadership development programs. With limited resources and budget dollars, companies often have to be selective when...
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10 Reasons NOT to do Succession Planning
Succession planning is the systematic assessment and identification of individuals to fill key leadership positions that may or will open up sometime in the future. It’s otherwise known as “what do we...
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Learn to "Act" like a Leader
Like it or not, “presence” is an important competency for any leader. You know it when you see it – a leader with presence exudes self-confidence, is self-assured, can be passionate about their...
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10 Tips on How to Deliver a Great Concurrent Session
Conferences are a great way to learn some new best practices, expand your network, and hopefully come away energized with lots of new ideas to implement back on the job. There are usually two types of...
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10 Ways to Act More Important Than You Really Are
I have a gut feeling that this post is going to rub a few people the wrong way. Why? Because many, if not all of the items on the upcoming list are grounded in some degree of reality. Readers may point...
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The Perils of Hitting "Reply All"
By now you may have heard about the recruiter, Gary Chaplin, who lost his job for telling a job seeker off? Well, he didn’t just tell him off – he ripped him in an expletive-riddled email and acciden
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