Leadership

Last week I had the honor to be a leader of a 19-member team during the Women in Leadership Conference in San Francisco. We gathered every day for a couple of hours to digest the day and to begin the process of looking at leadership from a personal perspective as well as to use the…

I was discussing with a current client the other day the essentials necessary to move from the second tier of leadership in her business to the highest level, and the importance of doing things differently to achieve different results. What are the changes necessary in mindset and behavior that will enable her to take that…

This week I am getting ready to make my annual trip to the Global Institute of Leadership Development (GILD) in Palm Desert, and I have a wonderful group of leaders I will be coaching, as I do each year, as part of the Institute. In today’s post I want to quickly discuss leadership in general, and…

In my last post I talked about the Open Door Policy as a way to create more availability and connection. I suggested that the “drop- in” meeting might not be the best way to foster the connection that creates high performance and leadership. Today I would like to talk about meetings that are regular and…

As I continue to write and to talk with leaders, I am struck by the continued bafflement about how to move from being reactive to proactive which is what has inspired today’s post. I have heard many executives define the culture of their organization as reactive vs. pro-active.  They have expressed a desire for more…

Lately, many of my conversations with clients have been around how to develop new ways to enhance everything from sales to executive leadership. For today’s post I thought I would focus on two areas: Presenting the essentials for creating a focus on engagement as a methodology and as a new frontier for creating results and…

In the last two weeks there have been several conversations about change and about the changing organization of companies, sometimes from within and sometimes because of mergers or acquisitions. How does an acquired company remain viable and exciting enough to create a lasting positive impact and be recognized as a business expander?

As you know everyone is so busy now. Every day is filled with things to do, complete and accomplish, and a day can be over in a flash. How often do you look back and say, where did the time go, or, I did not get to what I meant to do today?

In my last post I suggested a team meeting that focuses on process and on creating the connections between everyone on the team. (See prior blog post for the 4-meeting process.) Every time the New Year begins and strategy is created, it is a change for the organization. This link includes a summary and my…

This weekend I decided to take the time to become involved in an on-line discussion through Harvard Business Review Linked In Group. The question posed was; What is more important – a great business idea or a great team? Many of us talked about how both are important; some said that a good idea is…