Building New Leaders is Job One.

Why Leadership Development Should Be a Top Priority. Leadership is a critical component of any successful organization. Influential leaders can inspire, motivate, and guide their teams toward achieving goals. However, leaders are not born; they are made, which is where leadership development comes in. Effective leadership is critical to the success of any organization. Leaders…

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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…

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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.…

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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…

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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…

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Passion and Leadership; Leadership and Passion

Gung-ho and leadership are not the same things. We’ve all worked for a boss that was all about getting it done at all costs, striving to get all the wins at any cost, take the hill without caring about consequences. This behavior is not leadership. Passion is a leadership attribute that cannot be denied, but…

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Leaders Know the Temperature of the Team

Leading is about driving results but it is also about taking the team’s temperature and understanding three things:
– Do they need the temperature turned up?
– Do they need the temperature turned down?
– Do they need to be on a glide-path for a while?
There is no science to the art of temperature taking, but we can draw on personal experiences to help reset the temperature. Thinking back over your professional life you may have experienced some of the same dynamics that teams exhibit. Let’s correlate personal experiences to team experiences…

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When Leading is Painful, 4 Steps

On some occasions, when leaders have to take the point, the risk can be overwhelming. These times are when a leader’s mettle is truly tested when their courage and resolve are exposed. We’re not talking about those times that a leader has to make a project or product decision that may have a small to…

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Three Things Every Leader Must Know

Leadership is not for sissies. Leadership is not about you. Leadership has a price. Let’s diagnose each of these requirements. Leadership is not for sissies – To be an authentic leader takes courage. This courage is realized in many ways. Sometimes it is the courage to do what you don’t want to do, to do…

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