Consultants and Coaches – Can you tell them apart?
I had the opportunity to attend a Leadership and Development Conference recently, and I really enjoyed getting a broader view of trends and priorities in our industry. But, I was also struck that the majority of …
Executive Sponsorship of Training – Seeing It All The Way Through
There’s no question that professional development is a priority and a trend in companies today. The importance of development shows up in every study. 83% of surveyed organizations said that targeted development is important or very …
Cleaning Up Your Blooper Reel
Sometimes the best part of going to a movie is staying until the end to see the blooper reel. It has become such a fad that you’ll see bloopers added to the end of most productions …
Accelerating Visibility for High Potential Managers: A New Take on Rotation Programs
Five years ago, the Corporate Leadership Council released a study that said 75 percent of companies worldwide weren’t confident in their ability to staff leadership positions. It was one of many human resource studies that called …
Is Your Career A Novel or a Series of Short Stories?
It often takes business trends a little time to show up in people trends, and in the last six months, we’ve seen a significant shift in people changes across our client base. People are shifting roles, …
Is It The Power of Stories or The Power of The Storyline?
It seems the buzzword around presentation training these days is storytelling. There’s a trend to involve actors and acting in the training mix so that people become animated in telling stories. These classes can be great …
How to Keep an Invisible (aka Remote) Audience Engaged
If you’ve been in the workplace for 15 years or more, then you know that the amount of time spent in meetings has multiplied over the years. As the pace of work picked up, companies found …
The Manager’s Overview vs. Point of View
We’ve reached the last week of January which means that most companies have completed their launch of the new year. In the last two months, we’ve worked on many of these “new year” keynotes as leaders …