Archive for Leadership Skills
Last Minute Holiday Shopping? Give the Development Gift Pack
I have agreed to be a sponsor to Lominger, a division of Korn Ferry International? Why did I agree to do this? I was trained in all of the Lominger products in 1998. Since then, I have been using them as a regular part of my organizational consulting and executive coaching practice. I like these [...]
Warning Signs that you have a Jangle TangleTM—Compliments of Brothers and Sisters
Thank goodness for TiVo. My husband and I love it to catch up our favorite television shows. One, Brothers and Sisters is an ABC drama about an exceptionally close, yet dysfunctional family. Sally Fields plays Norah Walker, the matriarch. Norah has five adult children, each with their own lives and own dramas. As I watched [...]
5 Reasons it’s So Hard to Give Tough Performance Feedback
There are no two ways about it. It is tough to give good constructive feedback. Not providing clear tough feedback to peers, direct reports, and staff exacerbates performance problem and contributes to situations that tangle forward progress. For example, I’ve had clients whose direct reports continued to come up short in developing product roll-out strategies. [...]
What Leaders Can Learn from Michael Jackson
I was stunned when I heard about Michael Jackson’s untimely death last week. As a huge Thriller fan, I remember watching Jackson and being captivated by his music, his dancing, and his beat. He really was a musical genius. I never paid too much to the tabloid headlines swirling around his life. However, in the [...]
Active Listening Tips for Avoiding Strangling TanglesTM
A Strangling TangleTM paralyzes organizations and can lead to plummeting profits, lost revenue, and precipitous falls in market share. There are a number of causes for Strangling Tangles. Based on my experience and research, organizations with corporate cultures that discourage speaking up and sharing bad news are particularly vulnerable. Leaders play a huge role in [...]
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Leadership Tangles Recent Posts
- When Leaders have Each Other’s Backs, Teams Have Less Tangles
- Shaun White, Olympic Gold Medalist, and VUCA Leadership
- You Can’t Hurry Trust . . . You Just Have to Wait
- Why Exceptional Leaders Provide Air Cover . . . And Prevent Tangles
- Leaders: What Avatar Reveals about Respecting Differences and Organizational TanglesTM
- Last Minute Holiday Shopping? Give the Development Gift Pack
- Night of the Living Dead, VUCA, and Strangling Tangles
- Warning Signs that you have a Jangle TangleTM—Compliments of Brothers and Sisters
- How to Build a Culture of Fear in 3 Easy Steps
- Beware: The Shadow of the Leader Can Become the Shadow of the Gang
- 5 Reasons it’s So Hard to Give Tough Performance Feedback
- What Leaders Can Learn from Michael Jackson
- What Leaders Can Learn from Twitter, Facebook, and #Iran Election?
- Ignore Warning Signs at Our Mutual Peril
- What’s Divorce Got to Do with It?
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