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Read post »With e-mail in-boxes burying managers in hundreds of e-mails while they rush through a blur of meetings, speed is essential to effectiveness — if not survival. Zenger Folkman recently analyzed 360 assessments on over 50,000 leaders to understand how speed impacts evaluations of their effectiveness. A “speed index” was created to measure speed in three […]
Read post »Regular coaching will improve productivity, employee engagement, retention, employee development, and supervisor performance.
Read whitepaper »How developing powerful combinations of competencies produce exponential results.
Watch video »Many 360s are focused on weaknesses and much less effective. 10 major components differentiating our 360 assessment system.
Watch video »BARD Access Systems’ experience with how performance appraisals are viewed after the organization focused on strengths, rather than weaknesses.
Watch video »Improving weakness only moves you to average or a little above. Profound strengths overshadow weakness in extraordinary leaders, unless there is a “fatal flaw.”
Watch video »The impact of not developing leaders and managers enough or early enough.
Watch video »Data showing the impact that leadership effectiveness has on employee turnover.
Watch video »Data showing the impact that leadership effectiveness has on employee engagement.
Watch video »Chart of the 16 competencies differentiating the best leaders from the worst leaders.
Watch video »Using empirical data to determine 16 differentiating competencies which clearly predict the best and the worst leaders – and outcomes -- by correlating key performance indicators.
Watch video »How focusing on weakness and the myth of the “well rounded” exceptional leader have contributed to the current leadership gap.
Watch video »A clear perspective on what can be done to make a competency model not only more memorable, but also incredibly useful to an organization.
Read whitepaper »We have seen a dramatic increase in the use of coaching as a tool for leadership development over the past few years. And for good reason…the list of benefits is impressive: improved productivity high-energy company culture dynamic supervisor/employee relationships creative problem solving greater risk taking heightened innovation, and higher levels of customer service and satisfaction […]
Read post »As I described recently in “Courageous Leaders Ask for Feedback“, strong leaders encourage feedback, and reap the benefit in their improved leadership and coaching effectiveness. Feedback from others is twice as valid as our own self-assessment, and provides a double value: insight into how others perceive our current leadership effectiveness and assurance that our route […]
Read post »Imagine your workplace filled with curious, creative, committed employees. People who take initiative, who are fearless decision makers, who “own” their work. Set your organization on the right path to successful coaching!
Watch webinar »Craig was a brilliant young engineer who aspired to be the go-to technical leader in his company. He studied journals and books, attended professional conferences, enrolled in technical courses, and was active in his professional association. He prided himself in his outstanding academic ratings. He routinely aced technical exams and scored in the top 10% […]
Read post »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? […]
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