We’ve been advocating leveraging success in leadership development by profiling successful leaders and using their behaviors as the basis for developing your organization’s leadership competencies. Once established, we teach these behaviors to other leaders and future leaders in workshops, initially adding only a few additional competencies from our leadership competency library. The library contains the…
Appreciative inquiry is a powerful tool for motivating and engaging employees. Instead of asking why something is not working or being critical of an employee’s work, think about taking a different approach. Ask the employee to think about a similar situation where he was successful. Then ask what enabled the success and how he and…
Some of my recent leadership development client work has shined some new light on gender diversity. Much of our time in leadership workshops is spent helping leaders who got recognized earlier in their careers as top-flight subject matter experts learn the softer capabilities needed to be a strong leader. This transition is one that great leaders…
We are often asked how strong leaders can be developed quickly with confidence that they will be successful in the organization. In responding to this question, we always ask three key questions: [list style=”customlist”] 1. What does a strong leader look like today? 2. What would make your leaders even stronger? 3. What is the…
Last week StangerCarlson presented “Coaching Teams in Shared Space” at Columbia University’s 1st International Coaching Conference. Carolyn Carlson moderated a lively panel discussion on improving team performance and the challenges with team coaching. Slide show of the presentation in slideshare embed below. StangerCarlson coaching teams in shared space 10 23-2014 final sm from Carolyn Carlson
During his keynote address at the 1st Columbia University International Coaching Conference, Dr. Warner Burke stressed the importance of learning agility as an executive competency and the difficulty in measuring proficiency at this competency in a statistically reliable and valid way. As I sat listening to Dr. Burke’s presentation, I became aware of an irony…
The last 20 years have been a watershed for leadership development across a broad array of industries and geographies. The emergence of competencies, executive coaching, mentoring, social capital, team building, behavioral role profiling, neuro-science and assessments has provided opportunities for developing great leaders to address increasingly complex business issues with alacrity and confidence. Against this…
In our study of language, we learn about the different tenses such as present, past, future, subjunctive and conditional. The “negative pregnant” is not on this list. Yet, it is a frequently used tense that your people hate to hear. What is the negative pregnant and how can you avoid it? There are two forms…
Closing your leadership gap requires a strategy.