Six Barriers to Success After Promotion
The transition from top performer to manager creates unexpected challenges for both the individual and the team. The role will change, but often overlooked is the requirement of new skills that were simply not part of the prior role. A competent “performer” is...
Nine Keys to Success After Promotion
If performers who get promoted to management are going to learn the new role, we need to ask, “what is management?” Typical answers are about shallow techniques. However, until we have a good solution to “what” management is, then we will forever struggle with “how”...
Keeping Up in a Fast-Paced, Competitive Environment
When organizations and its individuals are not open to learning, we are not encouraging others to say “I don’t know,” which are the words needed for continuous learning and evolution.
The Time for Rest and Renewal
Ancient wisdom tells us that winter is a time for rest and renewal. But in our culture, we turn on the lights, turn up the heat, get some caffeine and keep on truckin’. Some music with a downbeat fills the emptiness quite well. What is the consequence to have no...
15 Keys to Success After Being Promoted to Manager
The transition from top performer to manager is often times challenging for both the individual and the team. The roles and skills are very different. By “performer” we mean someone who is qualified to make and fulfill promises as an individual. By “manager” we mean...
Leadership Inside Out – Developing Inner Strength, Peace, and Health
We must go inside to develop inner strength, peace, and health. It is our inside that determines our outside – our actions, results, and impact on others. The challenges that await us on the inside are many: What do you do with your anxiety? What do you do with your...
Leadership Development Step 3 – Professional Skill Sets
In following your Leadership Development path, we, at IGL, offer to be a guide through the steps of new awareness of what it takes to be your best as a leader. Second, we give you the support to practice on the job to build your leadership muscles and results. Third,...
Leadership Development Step 2 – New Action Skills
Learning to elevate your leadership impact and skills takes more than being aware of what these skills are. It takes practice to grow and hone these skills. Having a body does not make you a high-level athlete. But with practice, you can become your best as an...
Leadership Development Step 1 – New Awareness
We need new Awareness for stepping forward into developing our leadership and leadership results. What are our results we want from new awareness? Better team performance, better career progress, bigger impact in your work life. How does new awareness produce better...
Take Your Leadership to the Next Level – Part 1
Is there a limit on the value and impact we can create as leaders? Is our success evidence that there is no need, or room, to get better? Or can we go to another level of contribution? Whatever our success, we can always take our leadership to another level of...