Is Your Leadership Style More Results or Relationship Focused?
Have you ever worked for a leader who was overly focused on results? How about the leader who placed too much emphasis…
Best Practices of Leadership Alignment
In my last few posts, I have been exploring the behavioral best practices of leaders who Craft a Vision and Champion Execution. As I…
Behavioral Best Practices of Crafting a Vision
As I mentioned in my post last week, one of the interesting observations I’ve noticed in my leadership development programs here in…
Leadership: Key Principles of Execution
I had an amazing visit with a senior executive last week to kick-off a 7-month leadership development program here in Denver, Colorado.…
The Unintended Impact of Positional Authority
Have you ever noticed that people laugh louder when senior leaders make jokes? Or that their ideas and thoughts are taken more…
Three Critical Leadership Shifts
Look at you — you’re a rising star! You’re smart and successful. People are taking real notice of how good you are…
Get the Most from Your Coaching – A Colorado Perspective
So, you decided to work with an executive coach to help you develop as a leader. Congratulations! This is likely to be…
Leadership Training Transitions – Denver
I just kicked-off an 8-month leadership development program with a client in Denver, and one of our topics was about the “shifts”…
Lance Armstrong’s Leadership Mistakes
The hype around Lance Armstrong’s confession of using banned substances brings up two leadership issues for me. Leadership Issue #1: Winning at…
Leadership and Conversations
I recently read an article in the Harvard Business Review, Leadership is a Conversation, by Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind. As of…