Recent research on why leaders use executive coaching is instructive for all of us. the research, cited here, includes the following reasons: 1. Sharpening the leadership skills of high potential individuals 2. Correcting leadership skill gaps 3. Improving success rate, or reducing risk of failure of new leaders 4. Correcting employee relations problems 5. Providing [...]
In the Money Section of USA Today on Monday May 19th, an interview with 3M CEO George Buckley ran (here is the online copy). According to a recent survey by The Hay Group and Chief Executive magazine, 3M ranked first in organizational leadership development. Given that standing, the thoughts of the CEO would be valuable. While [...]
In today’s Powerquotes Plus our members received this quotation from the author Vash Young: “Any experience can be transformed into something of value.” Most of us would agree with this thought, and yet, when the experience has been challenging, hard, difficult or painful, it is harder to believe or remember. That is where we as [...]