Why Personality Assessments Do More Harm Than Good
Wouldn’t it be great if there existed a magical tool that could peer into a person’s soul and tell you how well they’ll turn out if you hire or promote them? That’s pretty much what the nearly one-third of companies who use personality assessments believe they’ve found. But what if there are flaws in this…
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Is Your Organization Addicted to Recruiting?
Addictions are everywhere these days. Even seemingly innocuous behaviours can become addicting if left unchecked. For example, some people are addicted to sugar, to their smart phones and devices, to social media, etc. But recruiting? Come on, I must be joking, right? An addiction is a “behavior for which the rewarding effects provide a compelling…
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5 Powerful Practices to Give Feedback Like a Pro
In my previous article on How To Cure A Passive-Aggressive Culture, I made the case that the essence of leadership is to “go before” and guide others to a destination. The way leaders guide others is by constantly pointing to the destination and providing frequent feedback about how well individual efforts are moving the team…
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How To Cure a Passive-Aggressive Culture
It’s one thing to have to deal with one person at work who uses passive-aggressive tactics, but what do you do when your workplace culture actually promotes this type of dysfunctional communication and behaviour? Do any of these situations sound familiar? Implying that someone is stupid without actually saying it, such as “You should know…
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3 Essential Elements of a Learning Organization
Do you know someone who has had many experiences that should have taught them something (humility, money management, stop dating losers, etc.) but they haven’t learned it? Easy, right? We can all point to people who haven’t learned from their experiences. Now what if I asked you, “What changes have you made in the last…
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When is the Right Time to Start a Big People Project?
“Now isn’t the right time.” As a leadership development consultant, I’ve heard that phrase more than you can imagine. I help organizations of all sizes to implement a process to continually develop their people. That’s no small undertaking. It’s not surprising that business leaders are a little hesitant about jumping headlong into a project that…
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Why Some Leaders Become Legendary, And How You Can Too!
If I asked you to name some legendary leaders, who do you think of? You might think of people like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr., Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela, Jesus, or the Dalai Lama, among others. Each of these leaders became legendary because, like the metaphorical pebble thrown in the pond, their influence is…
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Is Your Company Ready for the Impending Grey Tsunami?
“The sky is falling!” “The sky is falling!” You know the story—Chicken Little gets hit on the head by an acorn, hemistakenly believes that the sky is falling, and then he runs around hysterically warning others of an impending disaster that never happens. Likewise, for the last decade or more you may have also…
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