4 Commonly Overlooked Reasons Why Creative Leaders Succeed
As leaders, creative thinkers don’t just plan for the future, they design the one they want to build.Read More
EQ in the Workplace: A Positive Antidote to Bad Behavior
By Lisa Aldisert, AllBusiness.com, January 2016
Most of us have experienced incivility in the workplace. Inappropriate behavior toward coworkers typically stems from a variety of factors: increased workloads resulting in stress and fear, inflated self-importance, the desire to win at all costs, and insensitivity to the needs of others. But what it all boils down to is a lack of respect for colleagues.
How a Better Understanding of Yourself Will Help You as a Leader
By Rodger Price, AllBusiness, January 2016
There are many effective ways to lead, and leaders all have a unique design when it comes to ability and potential. Some great leaders do it through their high energy and engaging personalities. Others do it through careful planning and significant investment in the people who choose to follow them. Still others do it through sheer determination and dogged persistence.
Ambiverts Bridge Introverts and Extroverts. But Isn’t That Just Everybody?
Featuring Andy Johnson, HowStuffWorks.com, December 2015
From backstage, you hear a crowd beginning to gather. As the hum of conversation grows, your confidence begins to ebb. Within seconds, your mouth is a desert, your heart is a hummingbird and your mind is a forest of doubt. You’re much more comfortable talking to people one-on-one, and the prospect of walking on stage is a veritable nightmare. Then you take a deep breath and do just that.
Why Personal Branding is Critical for Today’s Leaders
By Justin Foster, Strategy Magazine, October 2015
As part of our approach to helping leaders develop their personal brands, we have our clients send out a five-question brand perception survey to 15 to 20 people in their circles of influence. Similar to 360 surveys, our survey helps provides data and insights on how a person is perceived by others. A new client recently sent her survey out and received this response from a friend: “What?? You’re a brand??” Read More
Recognizing the 5 Symptoms of ‘Shopkeeper Syndrome’
By Emily Soccorsy and Justin Foster, AllBusiness, August 2015
There comes a point in the leadership of every privately-held company when the owner is forced to relinquish a healthy amount of control in order for the company to grow–or continue controlling everything and stagnate. Read More
Growing Leaders in the ‘Lab’–Benefits of Experiential Learning
By Ranjit Nair, allBusiness, August 2015
Doing begets learning. Study after study has shown that the most effective way to retain training is to put it to practical use right away. Yet the pace of competitiveness often leaves little time for training, and even less time for training that doesn’t produce results. Read More
Who Says Extroverts Make Better Leaders? Part 1
Interview with Andy Johnson, PsychologyToday.com, August 2015
Introverts, take the lead! So urges Andy Johnson, the introvert, leader, executive coach, and licensed counselor who wrote Introvert Revolution: Leading Authentically in a World That Says You Can’t. Johnson is leading the charge to eradicate the bias against introvert leadership. In this first installment of a two-part series, he sheds light on the plight of the introvert leader.Read More
How to Know When To Leave Your Job
By Skip Hall, Fast Company, July 2015
Most of us have done it—stayed in a job so long we started getting complacent, or worse. Then there’s the reverse problem—leaving a job too early and ending up with something that isn’t what we hoped for.Read More
3 Steps to Deepen Business Success
By Chris Stark, Strategy Magazine, July 2015
For decades, leaders chanted the mantra, “Don’t just sit there, do something!” It was common practice for leaders to push themselves and their people to the limit, all in service to the god of productivity. Then, in 1949, an unknown columnist for the Tulsa Times flipped the order to, “Don’t just do something … sit there.” Shortly thereafter, this saying was picked up by the likes of Dwight D. Eisenhower in dealing with his direct reports. Read More