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Preventing Potential Dysfunction in the Boardroom

By Chris Cancialosi

Published at November 1, 2018November 8, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Leadership

There is no shortage of research on the impact that boards can have on the performance and profitability of the organizations they serve. In today’s business context, boards face higher expectations, increased scrutiny by the community, press, politicians, and the street, and significant increases in the velocity of demands of their attention. These realities create a need for boards to be as effective as possible in driving profitability for the firms they serve. Board inefficiencies and lack of effectiveness are simply not something that organizations can afford. Setting up boards for success starts during the recruitment process and some recent research sheds some light on how to make this process have greater positive impact. Read More…

Knowledge Transfer: The Key to Organizational Resilience and Agility

By Chris Cancialosi

Published at July 6, 2018July 6, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Knowledge Management, Leadership, Process Improvement

Chris Cancialosi’s article was just published in July’s issue of TD at Work.

How do organizations not only survive, but thrive in today’s new operating environment? By developing resilience and agility. Knowledge transfer is critical to this, and talent development practitioners are positioned to help companies prepare. In “Knowledge Transfer: The Key to Organizational Resilience and Agility,” Chris Cancialosi details:

what knowledge transfer is and why it is critical to organizations’ resilience and agility
the role of effective knowledge transfer in the future of work
ways to develop and strengthen an organization’s ability to effectively transfer and manage knowledge.

Nine Questions Every Leader Must Ask Before Letting Someone Go

By Chris Cancialosi

Published at June 7, 2018June 7, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Leadership

If you have worked in the professional world as a leader for any length of time you have undoubtedly found yourself managing a team member who was failing to live up to expectations. While it might be tempting to cut someone loose if their performance is sub-par, the turnover may cost more than you think.

Coaching by Leading from Beside

By Bulldog Drummond

Published at April 13, 2018April 9, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Executive Coaching, Leadership

Coaching is good for you.

Think back to the people in your life who you’ve advised, whose potential you’ve recognized, and whose talents you’ve used to help you discover and shape your own.

Didn’t that process feel good?

According to research, coaching others has positive psychophysiological effects that restore the body’s natural healing processes and improve stamina. “When we care enough to invest time in developing others, we become less preoccupied with ourselves, which balances the toxic effects of stress and burnout.”

Great leaders are part coach, part communicator, part motivator and always in service of the team they lead. It’s never about them, but rather about the people they serve. Read More…

Create a Culture of Leaders

By Bulldog Drummond

Published at April 9, 2018April 9, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Leadership, Org Culture

The mountain of articles, posts and books written on leadership every year reflects two realities. First, people are very interested in how to be an effective leader. And second, leadership isn’t a one-size-fits-all endeavor. The lessons mined from one leader’s experience may not be applicable in a different context. More than offering leadership development, organizations can address this reality by creating a culture of leadership.

Creating a culture of leadership has four primary components: Self-mastery, Action, Relationship and Context.

Tips For Nailing Your Next Executive Kickoff

By Chris Cancialosi

Published at March 21, 2018March 21, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Employee Engagement, Leadership

The launch of a new strategic effort represents a key opportunity for senior leaders to set things off on the right foot. Unfortunately, many senior executives fail to grasp the importance that a well prepared and delivered executive kickoff can have on the success of a project team.

This may happen because some leaders don’t take the time to develop the skills necessary to ensure that their kickoffs meet the mark or because they don’t see the inherent importance that their presence, statements, and interactions with others can have on their staff. Whatever the reason, or reasons, taking the time and effort to adequately prepare for this leadership responsibility can certainly pay dividends. Read More…

Why United’s Bonus Lottery Was Doomed From The Start

By Chris Cancialosi

Published at March 14, 2018March 14, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Leadership, Org Culture

The commercial aviation industry is a tough business. Really tough. Margins are often razor thin, factors like the weather can wreak havoc on your operation in the blink of an eye and customer expectations of the air travel experience tend to be extremely low. Aviation workers give it their all every day to deliver in, sometimes, unrelenting environments and they aren’t usually paid all that well for what they do.

A Guide To Dealing With Difficult People

By Chris Cancialosi

Published at March 7, 2018March 21, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Leadership

We’ve all been there. Be it work, school or Thanksgiving dinner, we’ve all found ourselves in situations where we have been forced to interact with people we find to be “difficult”. For many of us, we’d rather eat glass than have to deal with challenging people like this but how we survive and, dare I say thrive, in these situations can separate us from the pack in both business and in life. Read More…

The Power Of One: Focus In A Fragmented World

By Chris Cancialosi

Published at January 25, 2018January 25, 2018 In Category Blog Tags: Leadership

Entrepreneurs juggle a lot of balls, no doubt. The culmination of the many items that demand our attention on a day-to-day basis and the multitude of stressors that come along with the lifestyle we have chosen can make it seem impossible to focus our attention on any one thing for long.

Not only does this make our lives take on a frenetic tempo but it can also have other, long-lasting negative impacts on our organizations and ourselves. Let’s explore why trying to focus on multiple things at once doesn’t really work all that well considering what we’re trying to accomplish. Read More…

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Getting The Most From Your Investment In Leader Coaching

By Ken Broadhurst

Published at December 19, 2017December 19, 2017 In Category Blog Tags: Executive Coaching, Leadership

Businesses today are investing significantly in developing leadership and management talent, and leader coaching is increasingly becoming a core component of development programs. If you are making decisions about how to leverage coaching for leader development, there are lots of variables to consider. And there is a lot at stake – what leaders learn and achieve through a leader development program can impact hundreds, perhaps thousands of others in your organization.

Today, most leader coaching is targeted at developing the capabilities of high-potential performers. Having built leadership coaching programs in two organizations, and being a practicing executive coach, I want to share some observations and advice with those responsible for facilitating leader developing programs, specifically around selecting and using coaches.