Values-Based Leadership
Professor Harry M. Jansen Kraemer, Jr. of Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management says a values-based leader aims to...
- Dec 1, 2021
- 13 min
Book Review – LEAD NOW!: A Personal Leadership Coaching Guide for Results-Driven Leaders (2nd ed.)
“Leadership is a future-oriented ability to establish direction, align people, and help others to work together. We believe a leader is...
- Feb 22, 2021
- 7 min
How to Give Direct and Clear Feedback
From front-line leaders all the way up to C-suite leaders, I have seen, time and time again, how managers have made a mess in delivering...
- Dec 30, 2020
- 8 min
Resilience Is Adapting Successfully to Adversity, Hardship, and Tragedy
“The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived.” -Robert Jordan, The Fires of Heaven Looking Back at...
- Oct 5, 2020
- 6 min
Blocked Personal Learners Don’t See Value in Self-Development
“Growth is the great separator between those who succeed and those who do not. When I see a person beginning to separate themselves from...
- Sep 1, 2020
- 4 min
Three Leadership Derailing Behaviors
Leaders exhibit common bad habits and researchers have pinpointed specific behaviors that can derail a person’s career (Lombardo &...
- Mar 17, 2020
- 6 min
Overcoming Obstacles: Attitude and Approach Are Answers to Pains and Problems
“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.”-William Shakespear In his book, The Obstacle Is the Way, Ryan Holiday...
- Jan 6, 2020
- 12 min
Steve Jobs Had Moderately Low Emotional Intelligence
I thought this might be an interesting case study. I’ve come across many articles where writers (both lay and scholars) have stated that...
- Dec 25, 2019
- 4 min
People with Secure High Self-Esteem Don’t Need or Seek External Validation
The older I get, the more reflective and observant I become. It might be because I’m older and a bit wiser, but I think it’s more about...
- Oct 7, 2019
- 5 min
Coaching vs. Therapy – Referring Coaching Clients with Mental Illness
[Note: This post was updated February 2021 for freshness & clarity.] A recent article in the Wall Street Journal, titled “Executive Coach...
- Sep 9, 2019
- 7 min
Book Review – Compass: Your Guide For Leadership Development And Coaching
[From CCL’s description of the book]:An essential book on leadership development and coaching, Compass is the go-to reference to help...
- Aug 25, 2019
- 7 min
How to Manage Better by Matching Leadership Style to Development Level
“Oversupervising or undersupervising—that is, giving people too much or too little direction—has a negative impact on people’s...
- Jun 26, 2019
- 3 min
Overplanning Is No Substitute For Getting Sh*t Done
Overplanning is defined as planning excessively or in more detail than is necessary. No Amount of Planning Can Ever Replace Just Getting...
- May 22, 2019
- 4 min
Fully Engaged – When Great Days at Work Feel Like MAGIC
According to DecisionWise (2018), “Employee engagement is an emotional state where we feel passionate, energetic, and committed to our...
- Jan 1, 2019
- 5 min
Going Through Your No’s Before Getting to Your Yes
One year ago on December 20, 2017, I flew half way across the U.S. to interview for a position at a very famous tech company in northern...
- Dec 3, 2018
- 7 min
Layoffs (Usually) Don’t Work and Why They Harm More Than Help
“Layoffs are mostly bad for companies, harmful for the economy, and devastating for employees.” -Newsweek (2010) In December 2017, I...
- Nov 11, 2018
- 3 min
The Three S’s (See, Surround, Set) to Overcoming Failure
SEE: See mistakes as learning opportunities and see yourself not as a victim One of my former college students shared this: “I have...
- Sep 2, 2018
- 4 min
An “Action Bias” Can Be Counterproductive
In a Wall Street Journal article, Staats (2018) writes, “we have an action bias: We would rather be seen doing something than doing...
- Aug 15, 2018
- 4 min
Self-Actualization: Realizing Your Potential
“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: ‘It might have been!’” -John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892) When I read...
- Aug 1, 2018
- 4 min
Self-Regard: Warts & All
I’ve been thinking a lot about emotional intelligence and the Bar-On Model of Emotional-Social Intelligence. According to the Bar-On...