Leadership Development Posts

“its my gift”

  What an incredible week this past week around the table in our TruthAtWork roundtable advisory boards.  One of the things we long to have is a sense of community for which this weeks’ meetings continued to exemplify.  Additionally,... Read More »

Coaching versus Consulting

I had a discussion the other day with a good friend who asked me a question.  He noticed on my website that I presently emphasize “coaching” where as “consulting” is rarely mentioned.  With my friend knowing my capabilities well,... Read More »

If you weren’t “King” would your people be following you?

Are people following you because of your “kingly” title or because of your leadership? Be careful how you answer, it may not be the one you think. Looking at it through another lens and to quote John Maxwell, “He... Read More »

Is it time for a “trade” in the off season?

Working with leaders and their teams, we often discover during “game time” that the team is not performing up to it’s optimum. Generally, stress and emotions are running high during times of peak performance which allows inefficiency and character... Read More »

Advisory Board vs. One-on-one Coaching?

We regularly get asked the question as to which environment we recommend plugging into: our advisory boards or one-on-one coaching. As I relate in the video embedded in this blog post, the ideal is to participate in both. That... Read More »

Are your players in the wrong positions on the team?

One the things that seems so intuitive; yet, is commonly seen in working with teams is that we have players in the wrong positions. What seems to be a pretty basic topic tends to show up more frequently than... Read More »

Promote Someone Internal?

In the world of business, the question often arises whether I should promote internally or go external. Actually, I’m going to broaden this topic further by including the question of whether or not to do business with friends or... Read More »

Chris, if I hire you, am I hiring a leadership coach or a pastor!

One of the things it doesn’t take long to figure out in business is that we want to compartmentalize what people “do”. Back in my younger years, I was fortunate to have the company I was working define my... Read More »

You Can’t Help People Who Don’t Want to be Helped!

As a follow up to our Leader Intervention and Authentic Feedback blog post, we wanted to offer some additional thoughts. While it ties to leaders in business, this topic really applies to people in general. Simply stated, “you can’t... Read More »

You really should be seeking “authentic” feedback!

Seriously, when was the last time you asked for feedback? How do you ask for feedback? Is your feedback authentic? How do you react to the feedback? Is the feedback the “truth”? How do you know? While today’s focus... Read More »