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Marketing Your Core Message – Internally!

July 19th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Not long ago I attended a presentation by Mark Carrier, Senior Vice President of the Hotel Division of the B.F. Saul Company. This company has won a number of awards ...more »

Positive or Negative Feedback Trumps None at All

March 22nd, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

A recent issue of Workforce Week shares the results of a nuanced piece of data on performance feedback, from the Gallup organization. They surveyed 1000 US employees, placing them into ...more »

The Paradox of Who Makes the Decisions

February 22nd, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Leadership Coach and blogger, John Agno, recently laid out eighteen  lessons on leadership from Colin Powell. One particularly caught my attention with its application to the non-military organizational environment: The day ...more »

Are You a “Director” or an “Informer?”

February 15th, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Here's an easy way to notice how you communicate when you want to influence someone to do something. It is a simple, practical model that comes from Interstrength Associates and ...more »

Make it Safe to Take the Risk

February 1st, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

In a recent workshop I ran on Interaction Styles I had the group working collectively at a case problem to solve. There was a lot of information and idea sharing ...more »

Taking Your People to Where They Don’t (Think They) Want to Go

January 21st, 2010 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

Janice Stein, a political scientist at the University of Toronto, said a key indicator of a successful political leader is that he/she takes people to a place they don't necessarily ...more »

We’re Leading Now the Way We Must in the Future. That’s Good!

December 3rd, 2009 at 7:00 am » Comments (0)

McKinsey & Company did an online survey of 734 executives in September to compare "the most important behaviors for managing corporate performance" in the future–once the good times start rolling ...more »