Letting Go & Looking Ahead

Letting Go & Looking Ahead      I had the great privilege to help design and launch the 2009 Midwest Forum on Talent Management last week.  By all accounts – participant feedback, faculty dialogue and the engagement of our stakeholders – we started...

Rising Above Your To-Do List as Leaders

Rising Above Your To-Do List as Leaders                                                            I was driving down the interstate to meet with a client.  The request had come days earlier – help coach the management team on how to address the performance of the...

Why We Fail at Developing Leaders

Why We Fail at Developing Leaders    We know exactly what it takes to develop effective leaders in our organizations, yet more than 90% of today’s organizations fail miserably.  Why is that?   Why, when we invest tens of millions of dollars, have access to thousands...

Seeing Results or Building Results?

I’ve been thinking about results a lot lately.  This shouldn’t come as a surprise to any of you who have known me for any length of time.  Our consulting practice is all about doing the right development projects, aligned to the right strategic initiative,...

5 Ways to Create Greater Impact!

I cringe when I think about the number of times executives have challenged me to come up with results for a training program or development initiative AFTER the fact.  I relished the opportunity to have a conversation about their questions on the front-end – How...