The word passion is often used as a holy grail for leaders. The trouble is, what passes for passion is often bad behavior. Taking over, not listening, showing preference for certain employees, ignoring feelings, considering a need for support as weakness, yelling, or too much focus on short-term results. The list is long. And the statistics on […]
In the early days of Clear Strategy, I gained an amazing insight. Half of the clients who were coming to me for job search ended up staying in their jobs and getting promoted. More than once. It turned out their career management problem was not that they needed a new job. They needed leadership […]
Read Lean In or attend a panel discussion of successful executives and you often hear, “Then I was offered the opportunity to …” or “Then I was asked to join…” What they don’t tell you is that they were offered an opportunity after they asked for it. In a Forbes interview I read, Sheryl Sandberg, Marisa Mayer, and […]
Last Tuesday I attended the International Coach Federation’s Prism Award event where talent development and coaching experts had a robust discussion on trends. In the room were top coaches. On the panel were heads of Talent Development from PVH Corp, Google, Comcast, GSK, ESPN, Coca-Cola and Prudential, all of whom have in-house “universities” that include robust coaching […]
The biggest frustration I hear from my HR business partners is around selling talent development to management and having a seat at the corporate strategy table. Selling talent development and coaching is no easy task. We know it works. Yet the benefits are difficult to measure, and reports that do exist tend to come from […]
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