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Why a Fractional Executive?
In today’s fast-paced and ever-changing business environment, it’s becoming increasingly important for companies to be flexible and adaptable. One way to achieve this is by hiring a fractional leader or an interim or part-time executive. A fractional leader is an experienced business professional hired to fill a temporary leadership role, typically for a specific project…
Leading with Intention
Leading with intention is a powerful concept that can transform your leadership style and help you succeed personally and professionally. Intentional leadership involves being clear about your values, goals, and priorities and aligning your actions and decisions with them. Leading with intention is a crucial skill for anyone who wants to be an effective leader.…
Leading with Courage and Grace
Leadership is difficult; it requires courage, empathy, and gracefully handling difficult situations. Leading with courage and grace means leading confidently while remaining empathetic and understanding toward others. This leadership style benefits the leader and their team, promoting trust and creating a positive work environment. This article will explore what it means to lead with courage…
Recovering from a Leadership Mistake
Leadership is a complex role, and while there are numerous ways to succeed, the possibility of failure always looms. Regardless of the situation, leadership failures can have lasting effects, affecting the leader, the team, and the entire organization. While it may be difficult to admit, every leader will face some form of failure at some…
Creating a Personal Leadership Brand
Have you ever defined your leadership brand? If you haven’t identified the attributes of your brand, now is the time. The process is simple but deliberate. What is a personal brand? A personal brand includes those attributes that make you who you are and how those around you expect you to behave and behåave in…
Strategic Planning – Is there a right way?
Strategic planning isn’t: A box to check on your NCUA examination. A one or two-day brainstorming event To plan incremental growth without changing anything Done during budgeting time. Strategic planning should be started in Q1 or Q2 so that when the organization gets to budgeting time, the strategic objectives have been established, and the resource,…
Is your job spiraling into (un)planned obsolescence?
Yes, even in the financial services sector, robotics, machine learning, and artificial intelligence will disrupt or eliminate your job. Here are the types of jobs that are at risk: Tasks that are simple and repetitious Job functions that can be done using an AI or Machine Learning algorithm. Jobs that involve data entry from disparate…
Perceptions of You Enter the Room Before You Do
All too often, others’ perceptions of us can make or break our opportunities, adoption of our ideas, our futures. Perceptions of us result from the direct and indirect experiences others have had with us. So, yes, opinions about us can become viral in an organization where assumptions are made about us by people we have…
Three BIG Data Myths
Ignoring these myths could be catastrophic to your data strategy.
Emotional Intelligence
EQ – A Journey to Personal and Professional Success “The capacity to be aware of, control, and express one’s emotions, and to handle interpersonal relationships judiciously and empathetically.” Emotional Intelligence (EQ) refers to the ability to identify and manage one’s own emotions, as well as the feelings of others. Having Emotional Intelligence requires us to understand how emotions…
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