Welcome to the StangerCarlson Talent Minute. I’m Carolyn Carlon. I recently read a HBR blog by Monique Valcour (July 17th, 2014) titled “You Can’t be a Great Manager if You’re Not a Good Coach”. I totally agreed with her comments; developing highly effective managers has been hobby of mine for many years. I understand why…
Welcome to StangerCarlson’s Talent Minute. I’m Carolyn Carlson. In our recent seminar on Evaluating Team Performance a crowd of over 20 Talent and HR leaders firmly agreed that: Most employees don’t consider the work of teams their highest priority and most employees don’t believe their contribution to teams is fairly measured or valued. At a…
As HR Professionals have you ever stood in front of an employee group as you were sharing your company’s new employee development program and you get mostly blank stares, maybe one or two heads nod. I have, and it’s frustrating. It’s time for us to change the dialog; it starts with changing the implied employee…
Whether it’s a merger, re-organization, or downsizing it is difficult to motivate employees during times of upheaval. Why? Because most leaders are reading from the “playbook” handed to them by Legal and most likely the change is affecting them personally too. In Authenticity and Leadership I share why I believe Authenticity is at the top…
To be an Effective Leader you must be Flexible. This means you need to be Resilient, Agile, and Adaptable — 3 leadership traits that demonstrate Flexibility. In prior posts, I shared why I believe Resiliency and Agility are important attributes of an Effective Leader. Here are my thoughts on why Executive Leadership requires Adaptability. In…
Resiliency is the measure of an executive’s acceptance of realities and, beyond that, the ability to drive business results in this complex world. It has become so critical to executive performance. There is a close connection between Confidence and Resiliency. A recent Forbes blog focused on Confidence as being one of the most important business…
Since my last post on Executive Leadership, I have done a considerable amount of reading, listening and learning about what it takes to be an effective leader. My first post on this subject discussed Authentic Leadership, then I discussed the need for Resiliency as a Leader. Now, I am adding Agility to the mix. Agility…
I first started using the term “people manager” when I joined IBM over 10 years ago. At that time, I thought the term was different, even interesting. I wasn’t sure why it was so important to distinguish the “people manager” skills from other manager activities. However, I knew it was important, even a pain point…
In thinking about what it takes be an effective executive in today’s world, Resiliency comes to mind as a highly valued leadership attribute. Think about it this way: nothing is easy. Competitive cost pressures abound in all industries, new products and services are coming to market at a record pace and, while unemployment is still relatively…
The word authenticity comes up often in discussions about developing leaders, though real authenticity can be hard to find in many leaders we meet. To be sure, most successful leaders have learned to appear authentic, except that when talking to close confidants behind closed doors, it becomes clear that what the public is seeing is…