Leadership Lessons
This is where we will share strategies, tips and insights on how you can align your organization for success.
Shifting your Mindset from Peer to Leader
Over the past few months I have had the opportunity to coach a number of individuals at various points in their transition from individual contributor to leader. Being promoted into a role that requires supervising a group of former peers is a common...
Coach Your Employees Beyond the Annual Review
According to the International Coach Federation, less than 10% of managers coach their employees both formally and informally on a regular basis. If the employee is lucky, the manager may have some discussions with the employee to check in as the year progresses. This...
Facilitate Self Insight with Coaching
When I was a child, my father would often give me advice and coaching. Sometimes I would take his advice and it would yield great results. More often I didn’t take his advice because as much as he was well intended, I didn’t think he really knew the answer for my...
Communicating During Change Initiatives
We often observe leaders struggling with communicating during change initiatives. They often feel anxious about how answering questions about change management initiatives. While it might not always be possible to explain “what” is going on, we believe that...
Managing Change isn’t Enough, You Also Have to Lead Transitions
In his landmark books about managing change, William Bridges made a distinction between “changes” and “transitions”. According to his definition, a “change” is something that happens. On the other hand, “transition,” refers to the process we go through to...
Why You Should Teach People in the Way They Learn
Recently I read this CLO article that discusses corporate training and suggests that we need to think about how we train people in the workplace. I agree. Rather than relying mostly on classroom events, we should place more emphasis on the 70:20:10 approach to...
It’s Time to End the One and Done Performance Review
What’s the purpose of a performance review? If you think it’s about documenting a discussion in your HR system, then you’re missing the point. That’s why there’s a lot of buzz about getting rid of annual performance reviews. Not so fast. The purpose of a...
Three Critical Components of a Successful Performance Review
We’ve blogged about splitting the performance evaluation from a discussion about pay raises. We’ve also floated the idea of turning the annual performance review into ongoing discussions about an employee’s performance. Now it's time to consider how to...
Maybe Performance Reviews Should Remain a Little Anti-Social
Twitter just turned 10. Facebook, 12. LinkedIn is 13, believe it or not. And if Pinterest were a person, it would just be finishing first grade. Current performance management theory, on the other hand, is well into middle age. So how can social media improve...
Breaking Up is Hard to Do: Pay and Performance Need to Consciously Uncouple
Pay for performance is a popular mantra in business today. And with good reason; it’s a sound concept to pay top performers more than those who aren’t performing as well. But while we want to reward top performers, we also want to make sure managers maintain...
Multi-rater Feedback
360 assessments and multi-rater feedback have become a common tools for helping executives improve self-awareness and clarify development goals. However, our clients are often frustrated when 360 assessments identify development opportunities that are not directly in...