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Read Strategic Planning Part I: Critical Items Leaders Must Consider Key Takeaways: Question potential consultants (facilitators): Understand what they’re suggesting. Be transparent: Create trust for the greatest impact. Diversity matters: Include everyone. Have you ever been the recipient of a stra...
Diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) have become one of the most popular workplace topics of the year. More and more organizations start to establish new DEI-related leadership roles, such as a chief diversity officers or VPs of DEI to plan and lead organization-wide initiatives. With all these n...
I lead a small team who is charged with providing innovative leadership development experiences to a large number of students. Over the past few years in this role, I’ve found that there are times when we’re creative – cooking with gas, as it were – and other times, our ability to create innovative ...
As a mom with a toddler, the day I’ve been dreading is finally in view – potty training. As I’ve been reading articles, books and psyching myself and our child up for this day, I’ve been reminded of the importance of emotions on outcomes. Let me explain. Most of these books reflect on the need for p...
When we look back to last January, I’m sure a lot of us expected 2020 and the beginning of a new decade to be a lot less volatile. A coronavirus pandemic, the public killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, another hyper-polarized election cycle and the fall resurgence of COVID-19...
Key Takeaways Learn how and when to stick up for yourself at work Different ways to protect your turf in a professional manner How to raise your stock and your image with the company For much of my professional life, I have always held the view that if I always did what I truly felt was in the best ...
A colleague recently lamented upon his observation of leaders who tended to make decisions based more on their ‘guts and intuition’ than on facts and critical thought. He immediately reminded me of Dr. Stephen J. Gerras’ work, Thinking Critically about Critical Thinking: A Fundamental Guide for Stra...
As a Duke graduate, I suppose I’m contractually obligated to write about Coach K’s retirement, but I’m just going to use it as a jumping off point. As many people know, Mike Krzyzewski retired last week after forty-two years as Duke’s head basketball coach. When I was an undergraduate there, the bas...
The old adage that “Actions Speak Louder Than Words” is probably nowhere more prevalent or more prescient than in the world of business. While your company may have mission statements and pieces of tastefully framed thoughts on the business of life scattered throughout the office, their actions ofte...
You can take a scientific approach to strengthening the leadership within your organization. You will need what’s called a leadership competency model. It’s the blueprint of the knowledge, skills, abilities and other attributes (KSAOs) that all employees of an organization need to succeed. A well-de...
