Archive for the ‘Support’ Category

• Touching Base

  • December 19th, 2019
  • Posted in Communication, Counseling, Employee Development, Feedback, Mangement, Motivation, Skills, Support

  Touching base with people you care about, work with, have worked with in the past, or miss – is something that is easy to do. So why don’t people do it more often? There are many things I do at… Read More

• Building an Adaptive Organization

  • October 15th, 2018
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Consulting, Executives, Mangement, Motivation, Skills, Supervision, Support

    How does one go about building an adaptive firm? Increase the Visibility of Opportunity This can be accomplished through careful job design. Work should have defined objectives for which people will be responsible.  Each organizational level should be kept… Read More

• How Can We Find/Get/Keep More —-

  • September 17th, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Employment, Executives, Feedback, Mangement, Motivation, Support, women

  Many organizations bemoan the lack of female and minority candidates for senior management and executive positions. I don’t know where they are looking or what they are doing, but there is no secret about how to find them. attract them,… Read More

• You Never Lose a Great Mentor

  • August 15th, 2018
  • Posted in Executives, Feedback, Guided Execution 1:1, Mangement, Support

  It’s hardly a secret that as we get older, we know more people that die. But when a mentor dies, there is a unique kind of loss and heartbreak. We lose the future lessons we will not get to learn… Read More

• What If My Boss is Incompetent?

  • July 17th, 2018
  • Posted in Communication, Employee Development, Employment, Executives, Mangement, Planning, Skills, Stress, Supervision, Support

  You may have a boss who is inept. Not a horrible person – but someone who doesn’t have the knowledge, experience, skills, or judgement to do their job. They are out there in every industry and at every level. They… Read More

• What New Leaders Need

  • April 5th, 2018
  • Posted in Change, Employee Development, Executives, Mangement, Skills, Support

  Maybe no one says it out loud but when an organization hires a New Leader, expectations are high. Sadly, studies indicate that 60% of new leaders fail within 18 months of taking their jobs. I’ve observed that New Leaders respond… Read More

• I Want To But I Haven’t — Yet

  • March 7th, 2018
  • Posted in Change, Guided Execution 1:1, Motivation, Planning, Preparation, Skills, Stress, Support

  I recognized a description in a novel of a character that reminded me of a few people I run across: “Just about anything you haven’t done in life you were totally planning to do – you just haven’t done it… Read More

• Drive with a Coach or a Consultant?

  • November 14th, 2017
  • Posted in Consulting, Skills, Support

  Many professionals use the terms “Coach” and “Consultant” interchangeably, I don’t. So I always pause before I answer when someone asks me if I’m a Coach. People aren’t all that interested in what I think the difference is; they just want to know if I can help them. Definitions of Coaching and Consulting aren’t really set in stone. In fact, in the corporate environment thy often overlap. The difference however is significant and important to understand. Once I learn more about what a potential client is seeking, we can then determine if it makes sense to move forward and work together.

• Home Work Home Work Home Work Home – ME

  • July 17th, 2017
  • Posted in Employee Development, Guided Execution 1:1, Skills, Stress, Support, women, Work Life Balance

  If you are constantly seeking parity between work and home you may feel like you are on a quest in search of an elusive ‘holy grail’; it must exist out there somewhere!

• Who Wants the Truth?

  • May 22nd, 2017
  • Posted in Change, Communication, Consulting, Employee Development, Feedback, Guided Execution 1:1, Mangement, Motivation, Skills, Support, Training

  I’m delighted that these folks want to engage my services. They want to achieve their goals. They just don’t want to simply engagement my services …. they want our work together to be fast, pain free, easy, inexpensive and brilliant.