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Is Your Approach Parent-Child Management or Adult-to-Adult Leadership?

Next Level Blog

Years ago, when I was a rising leader in corporate-land, I worked for a company president who regularly asked a thought-provoking question, “Are we engaging in an adult-to-adult conversation or a parent-child conversation?”. It’s the approach you could sum up with the name of a way before my time TV sitcom, Father Knows Best.

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Boosting Digital Literacy Among Parents

The Horizons Tracker

A new study from the University of Surrey suggests that parents need to learn more about how social media works with its complicated systems, especially the smart computer programs it uses. The study looked at how parents understand and use these systems that are important for their kids’ experiences on the internet.

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What Bulldozer Parents are Doing to Our Gen Z Workforce

Let's Grow Leaders

I didn’t even know bulldozer parents were a thing until Friday night. When did helicopter parents become bulldozer parents? I had to Google the whole “bulldozer parents” thing after having dinner with some HR execs […]. I’ll be honest. Are they really bulldozing at work?

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Parents as Leadership Coaches

Let's Grow Leaders

As I was writing the Parent’s Guide to Leadership, I asked him what he remembers most about our work on leadership growing up. Ben shared: “It’s not just one technique, but an entire parenting philosophy. It was fun to work together as partners, with the parent- child boundaries beginning to blur.

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Things Your Parents Said That Were Wiser Than We Knew

Kevin Eikenberry

There are things my parents told me a kid that have become a part of my belief system. The post Things Your Parents Said That Were Wiser Than We Knew appeared first on Kevin Eikenberry on Leadership & Learning. Recently, I have been hearing my mom and dad in my ear. Because of this mental exercise, I decided to […].

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Spinouts Main Competition Can Come From Parent Companies

The Horizons Tracker

The study reveals that parent firms, which identify and implement ideas internally, outperform spinouts. When employees depart from parent companies to start their own ventures in the same industry, they may find themselves competing against a newly established enterprise set up by their former employer.

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Parents as Leadership Developers

Lead Change Blog

Parents are well positioned to be the first leadership developers of their children. And yet, many parents do not take a deliberate approach to growing leadership in their kids. Parents work to give them an “early start” in music, sports, and reading, but for some reason wait until they are older to talk about leading.