Management
Hire Smart and Ensure a Fast Impact
People are 88% likely to repeat their behavior, so when you’re hiring, you want to hire based upon someone’s past behavior. To hire on past behavior, you’ll need to create a Success Profile outline. Once you make the hire, you’ll want to make sure the new hire makes a fast impact. To make a fast…
Read MoreWe Got This!
My Seattle Vistage leaders (peer group members): culture isn’t a place. Culture resides in the heart. You are doing an amazing job leading into the new normal caused by COVID-19. Keep connecting. Promote action.We have each other’s back.
Read MoreDo You Play on Drama Triangle: Victim? Hero? Villain? How to Get Off…
Are you in Karpman Drama Triangle? Read this short Wikipedia article to find out. “…[D]rama-based leaders can instill an organizational culture of drama. Persecutors are more likely to be in leadership positions and a persecutor culture goes hand in hand with cutthroat competition, fear, blaming, manipulation, high turnover and an increased risk of lawsuits. There are also victim…
Read MoreLooking to improve your leadership capabilities? Try Vistage. Here’s why.
As leaders, we are always looking for ways to make better decisions, grow our companies and reach our fullest potential. The question is, how can we make this happen? Being part of a Vistage peer advisory group can make a huge impact on your future success as a leader. As a Vistage Master Chair, I…
Read MoreProfessional development requires your active participation
Leaders are Readers Do you subscribe to HBR (Harvard Business Review)? If you don’t, you should. Deborah Rowland penned an article titled: Why Leadership Development Isn’t Developing Leaders, and it’s worth ten minutes of your time. The take away? “Our primary method of developing leaders is antithetical to the TYPE of leadership that we need.” As a Vistage Chair, this…
Read MoreIgnite Brilliance in Your Leadership: AmyK Vistage Workshop
Leadership isn’t about position, title or authority. The most effective leader seeks to influence. Influence requires communication. Communication requires a conversation. Are you reaching your potential as a leader? Are you inspiring your people?My Vistage workshop on Tuesday, August 7th will help you unlock your brilliance – your natural superpowers and gifts.Our workshop leader is Amyk Hutchens – she’s…
Read MoreRapid Learning for Leaders: Edgar Papke on Aligning Culture
I’m hosting three private CEO and executive workshops in June. In this rapid-learning session, you’ll hear from Vistage speaker and organizational psychologist, Edgar Papke. Papke will show us how to efficiently design and shape an aligned culture of innovation. Papke will also help understand how to generate desired results through alignment. The True Alignment model is the result of bringing…
Read MoreAre You Working Backwards from Customer Needs?
Remember when Amazon was just about books? These days I buy almost everything from Amazon except groceries. That may change now that Whole Foods is folding into Amazon. What happened? A valuable way for a leader to think: “A few years ago, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos wrote a letter to shareholders explaining how being “obsessed over customers” would protect them…
Read MoreHow do I build my brand on LinkedIn?
Decide Today. How you and your employees appear, connect, search and engage on LinkedIn is critical to increasing your sales pipeline and personalizing your marketing campaigns. Do you and your employees believe that? Does your sales force lead from a growth mindset? Are they aligned with your marketing folks? Have they honed the skills necessary…
Read MoreRapid Learning for Leaders: The True Cost of a Bad Hire
The point underscored by these two articles? Making bad hires is more costly than you think. What have you found? See what Barry Shamis thinks next week. A couple nuggets to chew on before then: ONE The True Cost Of A Bad Hire — It’s More Than You Think by Falon Fatemi, founder and CEO of Node: Recruiter Jörgen Sundberg puts…
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