Seven Mistakes Leaders Make During Feedback Sessions
In a previous blog, I pointed out that the desired outcome of any performance feedback session is to produce better performance after the conversation. They should be called “feed forward” sessions....
View ArticleWhy Leaders Say “Know” to New Year Resolutions
Many of us make those New Year resolutions, few of us keep them. We start out all fired up to lose a few extra pounds, spend less money, or spend more time with loved ones. Then something happens; we...
View ArticleHow Leaders Transform Core Competencies into Leadership Habits
First we make our habits, then they make us. John Dryden – 1600’s English poet How much of your day is spent operating according to habits? Do you have unconscious routines as you get ready for work...
View ArticleLeading by Achieving ANY Goal
Would you sit in front of a campfire and say, “Give me more heat, then I’ll give you more wood.” Of course not! You need to “earn” the heat by investing your time and energy gathering the wood, lugging...
View ArticleExecution – How Effective Leaders Achieve Strategic Goals
Execution = Vision and Action “Dave, tell me how you would facilitate our off-site senior management meeting?” Kurt was a no-nonsense CEO of a west coast commercial bank, with an MBA from Harvard....
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