10 Skills for the Manager to Executive Transition
Our experience with leadership development is that mastering these skills takes time and practice and it may take years. The key is to be aware of the right things to practice. What follows is some of what we’ve learned about what is crucial to practice. The effective...
The Manager to Executive Transition – Good Work to Great Value
One of the great challenges of leadership careers in organizations is the transition from manager to executive. Many fail at this transition point. One CEO of a large corporation that put a lot of resources into developing their managers and senior managers reported...
Transform Your Organization
To transform your organization, you have to transform how it shapes its actions, its results, how it learns, how it adapts, and how it gets in its own way. To transform an organization is to transform the conversations that it has, the emotions that it rests into, and...
Transform Your Team
Leaders create teams that do big things, or perhaps teams that struggle or even crash and burn. Even excellent teams can elevate their game to whole a new level if we can Transform the practices of being a team to a new level. Like the caterpillar becoming a butterfly...
Transform Your Leadership
To transform our impact as leaders we need to start with ourselves. Our culture trains us to take actions for external results, but we tend to be unaware of the internal skills that it takes to produce these results in the world. To transform ourselves, what are the...
The One Thing You Need to Lead Effectively
When was the last time you went to a sales meeting or was in a conversation or you did anything without your body?
Eight Principles of Improvisation Teach Us About Leadership and Life
Look at how the work of improvisers can reveal their easy-to-use principles to have you listen more deeply, think on your feet, take risks more readily, be spontaneous and meaningful, and be well-regarded as a leader.
Beyond Execution – The Missing Piece in Coordination
The common misconception in leadership and our work together is that when we’re done executing a project that our coordination is complete.
The 4 Missing Conversations That Disrupt Execution
When we declare our vision, or when we coordinate action with our teams, we can have all of the pieces in place. The right ideas, the right conversations, clarity on who is doing what, and in the end, we still find dissatisfaction.
The Only 4 Answers in Negotiation that Create a Future
In today’s business environment, multiple stages of coordination are often missing when working with teams, and at the very least missing a key conversation in one of the stages.