Anne Raimondi was stumped. Two people she managed weren’t getting along, and it was really impacting progress. In her private conversations with each of them, they had the same goals and wanted the same things. But in the room together, they’d disagree on everything. They’d quibble over the smallest things, avoid spending time together, and jump to assuming the worst about each other, even though they were ultimately on the same team.
Leaders: learn to embrace your shortcomings.
As the son of Armenian immigrants who fled to Italy and later the United States to escape communism, Bedros Keuilian has always lived with purpose.
An executive coach is a qualified professional who helps their clients gain self-awareness, clarify goals, achieve development objectives and ultimately unlock their potential. Worldwide, executive coaching is a $3 billion per year industry. The American Management Association estimates that the need for coaching will increase in 2018. They also predict that executive coaching will continue…
The way we work is changing so significantly that our minds can’t keep up. Constant change is widespread, and workers are tasked with high demand while having low control over their environment. What’s the effect on the organization? A workforce with anxiety, burnout, sky-high stress, turnover and people checking out.
In today’s competitive environment, there seems to be a notion that when a negotiation takes place, there is a winner and a loser — and no in-between. Often in business, there seems to be an idea that talks are a zero-sum game.
At some point, every leader has dealt with a person — or, worse, a group of people — who has lost motivation. It’s frustrating, isn’t it? As much as we’ve been there ourselves, sometimes it’s hard to sympathize with others who are disengaged from work and unproductive as a result. Sometimes, we view their unhappiness as a bug in their mental makeup — and, therefore, we think they should be able to suck it up and snap out of it.
by Prudy Gourguechon Republished from Forbes, February 25, 2018 Trust is a fundamental leadership capacity, and it works in two directions. It’s pretty obvious that a leader needs to be able to inspire trust and be worthy of that trust. It’s equally important that she has the capacity to trust others, a psychological strength has its foundations…
Have you noticed costs going up and ROI going down?
A conversation about leadership with author Kimberly Davis.
