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Employee Growth: How to Better Support Team Member Development

Let's Grow Leaders

In this week’s Asking for a Friend, I speak with Whitney Johnson, author of Smart Growth, about how to support your team along the S curve of employee growth. When I read Whitney’s new book, I was struck by how her model reflected my own journey of taking the leap from Verizon Wireless executive to entrepreneur.

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How to Develop a Great Strategic Leadership Offsite Agenda

Next Level Blog

Over the course of this year, I’m going to develop the agendas and facilitate around a dozen strategic offsites for C-Suite executives and their senior leadership teams. For three of my client companies, this is the third consecutive year that they’ve asked me to do this kind of work with them.

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Possible: How to Transform Any Conflict

Leading Blog

William Ury says, “We actually need more conflict, not less—if we are to learn, grow, evolve. In Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict , Ury explains how to embrace conflict and transform it constructively to bring out the best in us—not the worst. Humility helps us to learn and be creative.

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Leaders Coaching Leaders: One Secret to Sustainable Leadership Development

Let's Grow Leaders

As organizations flatten and people continue to work remotely, it will take more than an executive sponsor to ensure your leadership development sticks. You need leaders at every level engaged with your training as leader coaches to facilitate application and learning. How to Create a More Sustainable Leadership Development Program.

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How To Rearrange Your Brain for Success

Leading Blog

B RAD JACOBS, CEO and serial entrepreneur—United Rentals and XPO Logistics—has made and kept a few billion dollars and aims to show us how to do the same in How to Make a Few Billion Dollars. The most valuable part of the book for me was the first chapter on transforming how you use your mind. How do you get there?

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5 Leadership Development Practices to Kick to the Curb

Leading Blog

But one thing that has largely remained unchanged has been the approach to leadership development. Even though the world looks nothing like it did 30 years ago, organizations still cling to strategies and methodologies developed in the 20th century. In short, without vertical development, training dollars are wasted.

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The Future of Leadership Development: How to Prepare for What’s Next

Lead from Within

As an executive leadership coach, I have observed that most organizations’ leadership development programs are standardized and one-size-fits-all. You must make sure it’s specific to their needs, that it meets their goals, and learning styles. Very few understand why or how to prevent it.