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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The Career Coach Model: A Proven Shortcut To World-Class People Development
What business leader wouldn’t want their company to be thought of as the Google of their industry? Brilliant people lining up to get a job… soaring stock price… the company that everyone’s chasing. Ahh, what a dream! You can stop dreaming now because there’s something quite simple you can do to help get you there.…
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Let Your People Out Of Job Boxes! Use Trello To Fit Jobs To People.
Have you ever considered how much time your staff are spending on tasks that should be done by someone being paid half as much? In fact, how much of your own work could be done by others to free you up to do the high value, strategic work you never seem to have time for?…
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Are You a Talent Developer or Talent Waster?
Few leaders have earned a reputation for being an exceptional talent developer… but they’re out there. You may have heard of some of them. In professional football, 20 of the NFL’s 32 head coaches trained under Bill Walsh or under someone in his coaching tree. In hedge funds, Julian Robertson, the founder of the investment firm…
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10 Practices That Will Make Others Want Your Feedback
Right now, there is probably something you want to tell one of your colleagues… but you’re holding back. It’s something that’s hurting their career, and they seem to be totally oblivious to it. You’ve wanted to tell them about it for a while, but you haven’t because you are afraid that they will be offended…
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How Good Managers Foster Feedback-Rich Cultures
What do you think is the most important thing you can do to become a more effective, successful leader? I often ask this question to leaders at all levels who attend my leadership training workshops. I usually hear answers like, “improve my strategic thinking”, “become more persuasive”, and “be more motivational.” These are all reasonable…
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Performance Management: 4 Questions Managers Should Ask First (Part 2)
In PART 1 of this article, I assert that, for decades, most organizations have been taking the wrong approach to managing employee performance. How can I make that claim? Because traditional performance management is based on the totally false notion that anytime an employee has a performance problem, the problem is with the employee. Most…
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Performance Management: 4 Questions Managers Should Ask First (Part 1)
This time of year, many organizations are gearing up for the annual performance appraisal – a practice best described as managerial bloodletting. It’s a tradition that, like bloodletting, has been used for too long, and has provided overwhelming evidence that it does more harm than good. And yet, there are still organizations that continue to…
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