Are you concerned about building leadership skills in your organization’s supervisors, managers, or executives? Would you like to help leaders… Increase employee engagement by up to 8 times? Double/triple their motivation to implement a personal development plan? Build coaching and leadership skills around natural strengths? Make performance appraisals an inspiring event people look forward to? […]
Read post »A leader who is an adept coach can greatly enhance the organization’s success; one who dabbles and doesn’t take the process seriously can cause harm.– Marshall Goldsmith, bestselling leadership author and executive coach. Recently recognized as the #1 leadership thinker in the world at the bi-annual Thinkers50 ceremony sponsored by the Harvard Business Review Our […]
Watch webinar »Focusing on Strengths and Not Weaknesses Tricia is preparing for a performance review meeting with Tom. She’s very happy with his work and sees lots of potential for him to grow further in his role and move up to higher leadership roles. Tom is a strong communicator, good at building relationships, and inspires his direct […]
Read post »A University of Scranton study on New Year’s resolutions reports that 2/3 of Americans make one. 47% of these are “self-improvement or education related.” The study found that only 8% are successful in achieving their resolution! Many New Year’s resolutions are aimed at correcting our deficiencies or shortcomings. So is it any wonder that 92% […]
Read post »As I wrote in “Perceptions Are a Leader’s Reality” a leader’s impact on others is dramatically increased by the presence of a few towering strengths or sharply reduced by one or two glaring weaknesses. This halo or horns effect was first documented with empirical research by Edward Thorndike, an early 20th century pioneering American psychologist. […]
Read post »Keys to Engagement, Leadership Development, Succession/Career Planning, and Coaching Effectiveness In this learning-rich and fast-paced 60 minute webcast Jim Clemmer outlines how to strengthen engagement, leadership development, succession planning, career planning, and coaching effectiveness in your organization. Our organizations desperately want and need much stronger leadership at all levels. But a torrent of studies show […]
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Watch webinar »The Extraordinary Leader process and the resulting action plans got our leaders engaged -- and those leaders still report the process as the highlight of their careers.
Read case study »Based on our experience, the majority of people view the performance appraisal process as a negative experience. Even those with the best performance ratings generally find the process to be a waste of time. Most people assign the process to the category of a "necessary evil."
Read whitepaper »One of the basic questions facing everyone creating a personal development plan is the fundamental question of whether to focus attention on correcting faults and failings or whether to focus on building strengths.
Read whitepaper »Certainly, leadership is a complex topic. The study of leadership begs for a more scientific approach.
Read whitepaper »To paraphrase a popular love song, we’ve been looking for leadership development in all the wrong places. We need a better way.
Read whitepaper »A commonly held belief is that strengths taken too far cease to be strengths and become liabilities or weaknesses.
Read whitepaper »Excerpt from The Extraordinary Leader: Turning Good Managers Into Great Leaders
Read whitepaper »In a recent large scale global survey of CEOs and senior executives 76 percent cited leadership development as important yet only 7 percent thought their organization was doing it effectively! No wonder we’ve got a leadership crisis! There’s a blizzard of theories, opinions, arcane thesis papers, inspirational quotations, training programs, books, frameworks, and approaches to […]
Watch webinar »Keys steps to effective feedback that’s more likely to result in lasting change.
Watch video »Focusing on strengths, not weaknesses to make the most of performance evaluations.
Watch video »All exceptional leaders aren't perfect, but their towering strengths overcome their weaknesses.
Watch video »This breakthrough book (completely revised and updated in 2009) identifies the 16 competencies necessary for effective leadership. The authors have analyzed the responses of tens of thousands of peers, subordinates and more as they describe, “What makes a great leader?”
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