Jim Kouzes is a bestselling author, an award-winning speaker and, according to the Wall Street Journal, one of the twelve best executive educators in the United States. Jim is co-author along with Barry Posner, of The Leadership Challenge. Kouzes and Posner have been working together for more than thirty years, studying leaders, researching leadership, conducting […]
Managing Snapshot Management
This is another of the 108 strategies from Leading with Emotional Intelligence. Norma was an engineer who came to executive coaching because she had “rough edges.” This is a common expression in the corporate world for someone who needs more emotional intelligence. She was technically very sound and valued in the organization. Other employees though, […]
Collaboration Soup
Delia Horwitz is an entrepreneur, collaboration specialist, leadership coach and professional facilitator. She has extensive experience consulting and facilitating with hundreds of groups in a wide variety of circumstances, beginning in the late 1970’s. She has extensive experience helping good people do great things. Delia co-founded and served for three years as Executive Director of […]
Managing Snapshot Management #2
Another one of the 108 strategies from Leading with Emotional Intelligence. In the last blog we talked about how Norma’s manager didn’t see her for who she was today, she was a victim of “Snapshot Management.” This blog explores being under the spotlight and how she can publicize her changes. Leaders are under the Spotlight […]
Love ‘Em or Lose ‘Em, Getting Good People to Stay
Sharon Jordan-Evans is a pioneer in the field of employee retention and engagement. She has practiced organizational development for 20 years, specializing in change management, leadership development, and executive coaching. She is currently president of the Jordan Evans Group, works with executive teams, and coaches senior leaders as they strive to improve morale, commitment, and […]
What Does the Brain Have to Do With Business?
Srini Pillay, M.D. brings a fresh and new perspective to self-help with a highly credible background. After graduating as the overall top medical student, he trained in psychiatry at McLean Hospital (the nation’s premier freestanding psychiatric hospital for the past 20 years) and Harvard Medical School. He graduated as the resident with the most number […]
Good to Great Strategies
Micro-Initiatives: D.O.D. of Great Leadership Here is another of the 108 strategies from Leading with Emotional Intelligence. Discovering the “degree of difference” (D.O.D.) between good and great leadership has been the focus of many writers. Goleman, Boyatzis, and the Hay Group use the term tipping point to describe the behaviors that tip or move a […]
Job Search Secrets No One Else Will Tell You
Harvey Makay is the author of the New York Times #1 bestsellers Swim With The Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive and Beware the Naked Man Who Offers You His Shirt. Both books are among the top 15 inspirational business books of all time, according to the New York Times. He is a nationally syndicated columnist […]
Good to Great Strategies – #2
Micro-Initiatives Create a Macro-Impact The last Coach’s Corner entry was about the small activities that can have a major influence. Here is another subset of the 108 strategies from Leading with Emotional Intelligence. You demonstrate your Emotional Intelligence in moments and usually in relationships. In our goal to be less automatic and more conscious and […]
Marshall Goldsmith – The World’s Most Influential Leadership Thinker
Dr. Marshall Goldsmith was recently recognized as the #1 leadership thinker in the world at the bi-annual Thinkers50 ceremony sponsored by the Harvard Business Review. Dr. Goldsmith is the million-selling author or editor of 34 books, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellers, MOJO and What Got You Here Won’t Get You […]