We all get it now. The entry ticket to the party of hiring today’s workforce must include open workspaces, meeting cabanas, unlimited coffee and Mountain Dew, Fiesta Friday’s and Pizza Wednesdays, unlimited salty and sweet snacks, bean bags, napping pods, the obligatory fooseball table, and the video game Fortnite running from morning to night. In this competitive labor market, most potential employers know that these are the new tools of recruitment and talent retention.
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Asking leaders about their most important challenges at the start of a
leadership development
program always adds a tremendous layer of practicality to our talent development sessions. Last week, I had the pleasure of working with more than 50 eager mid-level leaders from two distinctly different companies but interestingly enough, many of their challenges were the same. Of the several great conversations and lessons gained from the content and the Leadership
Business Simulations
the participants engaged in to better their leadership skills, one dialogue stood out more than any other; a deep discussion on the tips and tools great leaders use to
gain commitment
.
As the summer draws to an end and the kids go back to school, this is a time of year to pause and reflect on what’s happened so far and what’s ahead. Eight months are in the books which means the year is two thirds over. In my role as a leader of leadership development solutions, I started thinking about some of the things I’ve learned and observed so far in 2018 related to leadership development so I could consolidate into a nice blog. Here are 5 things that I think I’ve learned:
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One of the benefits of traveling over 150,000 miles a year delivering Business Leadership, Business Acumen, and Strategic Business Selling learning journeys is that my job presents endless fodder for creating blogs that share ideas and insights about the very topics I train our global clients on.
The story of this blog post really happened, and I am sharing as a learning tool for leaders who need to develop a foundation level of business intelligence within their organizations and teams.
I arrived at the gate my customary 15 minutes before the announced boarding time to check in with the gate agent and to see if we needed any special tags for the luggage. Today, I was flying on a smaller plane and sometimes the luggage fits and some as sometimes you can gate check it and pick it up right as you get off the aircraft.
There is an epidemic sweeping the global business world and it’s called Currentitis.
Currentitis is an affliction that usually starts at the head of the business organization and slowly and painfully makes its way down through the entire body of the company including leaders of businesses, leaders of leaders, leaders of people, and individual contributors.
The symptoms typically start out as relatively minor nuisances, but then over time if they go untreated present themselves as:
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