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Leadership Alignment Training for Better Culture and Execution

Leadership alignment training closes the Manager Alignment Gap by turning trust, feedback, accountability, and team agreements into daily behavior. Leadership alignment training matters because manager behavior is where culture and execution either become stronger or break down. When managers are not equipped to reinforce trust, feedback, accountability, and team agreements consistently, even strong strategy can […]

Learning Retention In The Workplace And You

6 Strategies That Help Make Learning Stick Most jobs these days require ongoing training and learning retention is of top concern. As modern technology becomes available or just new information within the field itself, it’s important for employees to keep up with the changes. This requires new learning the recent technology or adapting your knowledge […]

Keeping Dahlia – Why Leadership Transitions Are Delicate

38-year-old Dahlia was the archetypal superstar actuary*.  A straight A-student all throughout, she had her pick of scholarships with the best Actuarial Science degrees programs in America.  Headhunters and the who’s who of the insurance industry were at her heels.  It didn’t take long for the higher-ups to notice her.  She quickly moved her way […]

Lessons in Leadership from the Animal Kingdom

Leadership skills are skills inherent in the animal kingdom.  Animals exhibit excellent governance aptitude. We kid you not. For instance, those that travel in groups are found to depend on interactions among its members when making migratory decisions.  They do so by making distinct noises understood only by their own kind. Male chimpanzees who rise […]

Do you have empathy for leaders?

Empathy for leaders like Derek Alexander, the protagonist in our soon-to-be-released book, is hit or miss. Perhaps you know someone like Derek. Perhaps you worked for someone like Derek in the past – maybe even now. Like Derek, many people who excel in their jobs, and want more autonomy and opportunity for advancement, accept leadership […]

5 Ways to Increase Training Recall and Retention

When it comes to training recall and retention, unless we remember, we cannot understand, says novelist E.M. Forster. You can have the best materials, the most in-demand facilitators, and the swankiest training venue. But none of these matter if your employees can’t retain information long enough to use their new skills in the real world. […]

Project Management – What’s the Strategy?

Project management. We’ve all heard the term so many times that it seems obvious. Do you want to be organized? Everybody does. But when it comes down to it can be overwhelming. Especially when it includes multiple people with diverse strengths, talents and thinking styles. It can be hard to juggle all the different projects […]

How Poor Leadership Behavior Impacts Work Culture

How does poor leadership behavior impact your work culture? Employee engagement, goal achievement, productivity, civility, workplace bullying and your bottom line are all impacted by poor leadership behavior. That said, changing poor leadership behavior is possible when executives measure change in department attitude and performance. The problem is that a few employees will copy poor […]

Positive Focus Builds Team Decision Strategy

When making a big decision, you’ve likely employed one of the most-often-used strategies around: the pros and cons list. But your list may not be as reliable as you think. Positive focus often gets the raw end of the deal because of how human brains are structured. According to a recent study from the Stanford […]