Why Does A Pivot Sometimes Feel Like A Pirouette?
Multiple colleagues have expressed to me recently how frustrating it is for them, even disorienting, when their schedules change, important meetings move, priorities shift. They have a plan for the…
Challenge of business concept. Group of businesspeople climbing a mountain. Teamwork. Success.
Is “Be Spontaneous & Confident” Good Advice For Everyone?
I saw a post on LinkedIn recently about the rapid pace of change and the shifts we “all” need to make in response. The author insisted, “you need to be…
How Can We Ease The Emotional Pain Of Firing?
A senior executive arrived on our call with frustration, agitation, and…hope. The need to fire a key leader in their organization had been brewing for at least a year. They…
Are you a Tree person or a Forest person?
When we started the succession planning process with a client a couple years ago, I was surprised that the leading CEO candidate was a “tree person” because the outgoing CEO…
How Much Stress Is Your Urgency Causing You and Your Team?
I had the opportunity to step in and deliver a workshop last week with an Executive Leadership Team when a fellow Kolbe Certified Consultant tested with covid the day before.…
COLLABORATION Rx: Diagnosing Team Challenges BEFORE Prescribing Solutions
“Why does she do what she’s doing if it’s against her own instincts?” My client had asked me to do an onboarding session for a newly promoted manager on her…
How Do We Help Build Trust?
That was the key question from a new client referred to me to facilitate a workshop for her team. As a VP at a Fortune 50 company, she was bringing…
How well are you and your team navigating the chaos?
We’re a month into 2023, and one thing that’s clear is that the chaos and complexity of the past few years is not going anywhere, anytime soon…if ever. The layers…
A Copernican perspective on pandemic leadership
As you and your leadership team look at planning the calendar of events for the year, you are facing tough decisions about who will be required to attend which meetings…
Conflicts and Silos and Teams, oh my!!!
Collaborative teams get more done and have more fun, so how do we take the “Dys-” out of Cross-functional teams? From startups to the Fortune 500, the first factor for…
