Are you new to a leadership role? One of the most important things you must do is establish a rapport with your direct reports (or team members if it’s a project team). Bring your team members on board is #3 on my list of six key actions a newly appointed leader should take. One way…
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Assessing Leadership Development Globally
Check out this infographic from the Mercer/Think blog . This slice of data caught my eye because leadership development is my thing and I’m currently working with two coaching clients who reside in the Asia Pacific region. As I read through this data, I wonder: would the statistics look all that different if we were…
Honoring the Unsung #HR Professional
In the social media space, there are a lot of lists out there attempting to quantify influential voices in a given professional domain. You know, “Top 100 Influencers in Cat Herding” or “Most Influential Digital CPAs”. Depending on whom you ask the lists are revelatory or a total waste of time. There does seem to…
Leadership and Love in the Workplace
These are lyrics from the song “Lead with Your Heart” by the Canadian group The Tenors. In a workplace context, some folks aren’t comfortable having the words “lead” and “love” in the same sentence. I’m getting more comfortable with it. Especially if we’re talking about “leading” one’s self and listening to the inner voice that…
Taking Action at Work – Go Now or Wait?
When you take action at work, are you making things better . . . or worse? The American workplace reveres action. Our drive towards forward motion is embedded in our national psyche. One of our nation’s forefathers even tied one’s own self-definition to the ability to act. Thomas Jefferson once said, “Do you want to…