Patricia Heyman
Can We Find Opportunity When We Are Not in Control?
In my last post, I wrote from New York having been stranded there during the hurricane. As luck would have it, I was in a part of Brooklyn that had rain and wind but we managed to keep the power. Our biggest losses were the television and transportation. As you know the subways were closed…
Patricia Heyman
When You Have a Chance to Create Direction, Do You Take It or Do You Defer?
It’s been an interesting week. I traveled to New York over the weekend for business and as you can well imagine tropical storm Sandy and her aftermath have kept me here since. I’m safe and sound, and if you are on the East Coast I hope you and yours are as well. I started writing…
Patricia Heyman
Which is More Important, Culture or Strategy?
This week I am in beautiful Palm Desert California at the Global Institute of Leadership Development. This is my eighth year attending as a coach and sometime team leader for the executives and teams who attend in order to expand their leadership and their approach to business. I am happy to be here to hear…
Patricia Heyman
Are Drop-in Meetings Sabotaging Your Effectiveness as a Leader?
A few years ago I was asked to coach the COO of a large regional bank. I was coaching the President, CEO, and several senior vice presidents on the leadership team. One of the COO’s goals for our coaching engagement was time management because he was consistently taking work home in the evenings and over…
Patricia Heyman
How Can You Connect With Your Team More Effectively?
I always think of this time of year as a new beginning. I think it comes from the many years I was a student and I always thought of this time as a new start where I was going to get new information, new awareness and become more personally effective. In my last post I…
Patricia Heyman
Leaders: Are You Making the Important Connections?
How is it that days go by with certain priorities still looming and undone? My forthcoming book, Jumping From the I-pod to the We-Pod: Breaking Through the Barriers to Essential Collaboration is our format for making connection the number one tool for getting things done and projects completed. Leaders are expected to have ideas and…
Patricia Heyman
How Do You Engage Your Team in Decisions?
I recently met with the Santa Fe Opera to discuss the collaborative leadership dynamic on their executive team, as well as how performances are created over a period of a few months. As usual, I discovered that the process is much longer and more involved than it looks from the outside. What seems to take…
Patricia Heyman
Are You Still Leading by Command and Control; or Wish You Could?
It is hard to believe we are in the last month of summer! I hope this post finds you well. Today I’d like to give you some keys to moving away from the Command and Control model of Leadership, which has created the I-Pod existence, to the new leadership model of the We-Pod where communication is…
Patricia Heyman
Collaboration As The New Currency
Ask yourself if these are thoughts you’ve had, or if you have heard these thoughts from others; and what price your organization pays when these situations occur. We do not function as a team. I have no idea what “they” are doing. I am asked questions that I cannot answer. My boss never lets me…
Patricia Heyman
Engage Yourself and Your Team for Strategic Results!
In past posts I have shared the development of the Collaborative Leadership process and the Strategic Planning aspect taken directly from my experience in working with top level executive teams, and organizing and attending their strategic planning meetings where collaborative discussion takes place and strategies are created. However, during the ensuing year, I’ve noticed that…
