The CEO of a financial services company in metro-New York created a team to explore and recommend a strategy for growing the firm. She assembled a cross-functional group of six highly capable people. The team worked very well together. Research and open and...
Kayla found herself increasingly frustrated. Promoted six months earlier, she had a strong sense of herself and her skills. She possessed a clear vision of where she wanted her department to go and what she wanted to accomplish. Kayla was an achiever — someone who got...
Lucas is a talented, energetic rising star at his high-tech firm. Analytical and focused, he caught the attention of his CEO who saw great potential in Lucas as an executive leader. The company was prepared to engage an executive coach to help Lucas advance his...
Based on the pioneering work of William Marston in the 1920s, DiSC is an elegantly powerful tool designed to better understand yourself, your team members, and how you interact and work together. A DiSC assessment provides a 2x2 matrix that identifies the degree to...
Recently the CEO of a 500-employee sales and distribution company said, “We love to hire people who were involved in team sports in college.” Yes, the CEO did play baseball and basketball at a small division II school when he was in college, but he’s no ex-jock...
Diversity and inclusion are important and vigorously discussed topics. Diversity and inclusion within an organization — including race, gender, sexual and gender identity, and religious belief — play a critical role in leadership development and organizational...
We do not like being held accountable. It’s hard to always be on time for meetings. Sometimes, out of frustration, impatience, or selfishness, we say or do things that are hurtful or disruptive. And no one likes to be reminded that they’re late on a project...
“DiSC” is an often-cited tool which explores and identifies personality traits and behavioral differences. It is used to build more constructive and productive relationships at work. Like any tool, if DiSC is not properly applied or interpreted it can do just as much...
Several dynamics are critical to the development of a fully functioning high performance team. In “The 5 Dysfunctions of a Team,” author Patrick Lencioni talks about a common team dysfunction — the fear of conflict — arguing that most organizations would benefit from...
We all know the feeling of being trapped in a bad meeting. The meeting begins late and runs over its allotted time. It’s disorganized. Discussion meanders. And when the meeting is finally over, we’re not sure what’s supposed to happen next. We leave thinking “What was...