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
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
Jump from an I-Pod to a We-Pod
In previous posts I have promised to take a deeper dive into each component of the upcoming class, Jump-Start Your Team. The entire focus is to jump from the I-Pod to the We-Pod as a culture. Today I’d like talk about the accountability aspect of collaborative leadership and high performance. When using a process like the…
Patricia Heyman
Are Your Executive Teams Looking Up for Answers?
This month I continue traveling cross country working with organizations, their teams and individuals helping them move into updated organizational networks, with new outlooks about the importance of teams and team alignment. My latest work has been in financial services, a national lab, and a national nonprofit. In all of these companies the status quo…
