For many years we have been studying leadership, and it is the topic of development courses, books, workshops, keynote speeches, blogs, and so forth.  Are leaders born or made?  Who are our best examples of leadership?  Is good leadership different today than twenty years ago? Who was a better leader: Lincoln or Patton?
 
We read the [...]

Talent Management
 
These last 12 months or so have really been tough on your managers.  Just think for a moment about what they have been watching on tv, hearing from their neighbors, and worrying about at work. Some work forces are completely exhausted right now. They have been cutting budgets, having to let people go, taking [...]

This seems to be the question of 2009.  Especially when there is a Boomer at the helm and a Generation X/Y workforce. Alright, leaders, this may not be what you want to hear, but it’s time for you to work on something.
What?  Oh GAWWW>>>>here she goes again.  yep.
Engagement is about relationship.  If your team doesn’t feel [...]

Job Benchmarking
 
We see layoffs in the news every day.  The principle of supply and demand says that companies with available positions are finding the right talent to fill the jobs more easily now than ever.  Not according to many of my clients!  Finding good talent is still a top problem!
According to the Aberdeen Group, in [...]

Distinction: EQ is not drama. (things becoming more emotional)  It is the opposite.
 
We are all draining some amount of revenue because of a less than perfect score on our emotional intelligence.
 
Oh, man, here she goes again with the fluffy stuff.  Emotional Intelligence?  You’ve got to be kidding.  I have a deadline to meet…no time for touchy-feely talk [...]

As leaders, how can we promote and encourage our workforce to stay productive in these crazy and stressful times? Stress is defined as a general and non-specific response to a “threat”.  That response to a threat frequently appears in the form of fear, disengagement, diminished cognitive ability, lack of creativity, loss of emotional control, fatigue, and eventually chronic pain and illness. The source of [...]

FaceBook?  Are you kidding me?  Who’s got time for that?
Let’s get real.  Using official Facebook statistics (http://www.facebook.com/press/info.php?statistics), over 100 million users login to Facebook every day . Over 3.5 billion minutes are spent on Facebook every day. This means an average user spends 35 minutes on Facebook, before logging off. It’s not going away.  Plenty of people [...]

You are a passenger on an airplane.  You look out the window of the place and the wing is on fire.  The oxygen masks drop down.  The flight attendants make an announcement that the pilot is going to have to make a crash landing on water.  You hear yelling: “Brace…Brace”.  People around you are starting [...]

All of us need to improve our decision making abilities in this business environment. 
IQ (Intelligence Quotient) measures your overall general intelligence. EQ (Emotional Quotient) measures your emotional intelligence: your ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity.  This is how effective leaders [...]

SECRET……The dictionary tells us that a secret (noun) is something that is kept hidden or concealed.
 
Most of us have been exposed to the tremendously successful movie and/or the book called “The Secret”, which contains knowledge that has been around for thousands of years, and it was packaged in an intriguing and ingenious way to attract [...]