Blog from our global partner Have the bad economy and the associated belt-tightening, layoffs, and furloughs totally distracted you from the impending crisis you were thinking about a couple of years ago? How will your company fare if and when the economy recovers and an avalanche of baby boomer retirements occurs? Do you have any [...]
Blog from our global partner: by Kris Girrell A few years back, Daniel Goleman introduced the concept of Emotional Intelligence as an essential foundation for effective leadership. It was one of those ideas that met with instant recognition as spot on. But just as quickly – in just a matter of a few years, it [...]
Blog from our global partner: by Barbara A.F. Greene With the economy on the upswing, it is becoming increasingly important for organizations to retain their workforce. Every year companies spend thousands of dollars assessing employee engagement. Surveys are compiled and administered and engagement plans are made, all in an effort to produce happier and more [...]
Blog from our global partner: by Raymond Perras A year ago a group of career and executive coaches, organizational development consultants, facilitators and researchers met to explore new concepts of leadership based on what we were learning from working with people and organizations. The group focused on what causes people to be the best they [...]
Blog from our global partner: by Kris Girrell We coaches often draw analogies from the sports world, and this is one of those rich ones – so rich, in fact, that it made it into the Wall Street Journal! The actual football issue – that of making a late-in-the-game 4th and 2 decision to go [...]
Blog from our global partner: by Elaine Varelas I know of at least a few HR traditionalists who are secretly hoping that the social media frenzy will quickly go the way of the mimeograph machine and typewriter, becoming obsolete and fading away. In fact, the opposite is happening. According to a comScore report, social networking [...]
We've been doing a number of projects lately on what we call Application Coaching, a.k.a. Integration Coaching, with clients large and small. Application coaching is when you provide 1:1 support to the participants in a leadership development program. A study by the International Personnel Management Association found that the value from training increases from 22% to [...]
