There are some excellent reasons why having an experienced leadership coach can be beneficial—
They coach from areas of strength that may not be areas of strength for you
They are an objective sounding board that brings significant experience
They give you the opportunity to confide in a person with whom there is no conflict of interest
Empirical research into the outcomes ...
What if I recruit the wrong person? How do I make sure I get a return on my investment and not lose this person to a competitor? Do we need to first make sure we have the strategy bedded down?
These are some of the most frequently asked questions I get from leaders in relation to succession planning and the ability to project what talent the organization needs to take it to the next level.
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Heavy fog found me sitting in a crowded lounge at Sydney Airport when Tony and Carlo asked if they could join me at my table. After we had introduced ourselves, our conversation surprisingly turned to the anxiety many young people experience in relation to career choices and the future of work. This quickly led to a discussion on the pace and pervasiveness of change.
Ray Kurzweil, Director o...
In the 2018 LCP Global Leadership Survey, we asked 134 Board Chairs, CEOs, executives and senior leaders to respond to a short survey exploring their thoughts on this topic.
Apart from my own leadership experiences in seeing the importance of this relationship over the last 25 years, I have extensively researched this topic since 2010 and am still amazed that many do not believe there is a l...
While 95 percent of the eighty Board Chairs, CEOs, executives and senior leaders who responded to LCP's 2018 Global Leadership Survey agreed there is a link between character and performance, we asked them how they responded when there was a conflict between their own personal values and those of the organization?
They are grouped into three dominant themes:
1. Resignation
27 perce...
In my role I get to have lots of conversations with leaders, and over the last few weeks it is clear that there is often a huge gap between making a decision and implementing it.
Inherently, I think most leaders know this to be true when it comes to driving their businesses forward to greater success and managing the tension between strategy and execution.
It is amazing, however, how many...
Book Review
Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes
William Bridges
Making sense of life's transitions is not always easy. Okay, let's be honest. Sometimes it is incredibly difficult!
We can often experience a range of emotions - hurt, anger, anxiety, fear and many more. Mix in a dose of confusion and disorientation and trying to discover that illusive ‘ne...
A lot of people are inspired to join an organization only to be uninspired soon after.
The global research firm Gallup tells us that fifty percent of Americans, at some stage in their career, have left a job just to escape a manager and improve their overall life.
Managers matter.
Another Gallup study reveals management accounts for at least seventy percent of variance in employee eng...
In Leadership & the New Science, Wheatley explores a perspective on leadership rarely heard.
Pushing us beyond Sir Isaac Newton’s mechanistic theories of why things work the way they do, Wheatley forces us to think more about the relationship of how things work together in a symbiotic and complementary manner where relationships are rarely static.
This challenges our preconceive...
The economic downturn of 2009 led to unprecedented challenges in global competition that created high levels of anxiety and uncertainty. This significantly affected stakeholder expectations that resulted in organizations tightening their budgets and standards of governance.
As companies tried to do more with less, employees were being asked to carry more load and stress in the midst of decli...