Leadership Development Methodologies: What Do People Really Want?
It was the aftermath of 9/11, and The Leadership Trust® noticed a preponderance of die-hard workaholic managers and executives showing an almost overnight interest in rekindling their family fires. How...
View ArticleTrust and Honest Feedback: Up Close and Personal
“Trust me. I’m just being brutally honest here.” When I hear the phrase “brutally honest,” it does not create a feeling of trustworthiness. For trust to abound, one must feel safe. That would suggest...
View ArticleLeadership and Self-Perception
There is a ton of literature on leadership and self-awareness. What about leadership and self-perception? It is different, and it is quite compelling, too. “People who accept themselves accept others,”...
View Article3 Top Tips for Harmony While Home for the Holidays
Since leadership is all about relationships, try these tips when visiting your family-of-origin over the holidays. So often and almost like a reset button, you may notice old familiar and sometimes...
View ArticleTips on Successful Confrontation: Feedback Processes that Work
Let’s say you find yourself in an uncomfortable situation in which you need to tell someone that his or her performance or behavior is problematic – or some other bad news. Furthermore, you can...
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Leadership Effectiveness and Early Family Dynamics: Research Findings along...
My mom recently, suddenly passed away, allowing the upside of grief to manifest in writing about the influence of early family dynamics on leadership effectiveness later on in life. To clarify what I...
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Family-of-Origin Dynamics and the Office Drama Queen or King
So often we ponder why people do the things they do. We want to know and understand the triggers. In this way we perhaps can help disenable whatever those unproductive behaviors. At first blush most...
View ArticleGo public when expressing gratitude; go private when expressing disappointment.
Today’s post from Trust Across America – Trust Around the World: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trust-gratitude-company-morale-barbara-brooks-kimmel Holly Latty-Mann offers this week’s advice. Holly is...
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Poor Eyesight and a Dead Tooth Due to Ineffective Leadership
Yes, you read that correctly. Too often we speak of leadership effectiveness within the context of managers and executives within the corporate world. Yet every human being has been victimized by...
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Emotional Intelligence and Trust: Another Angle on Building Relationships
Here is an excerpt from a September 26th Harvard Business Review article. “So how do you build client trust like this? You have to focus on listening. And I have observed two types of listeners:...
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