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Stop the Fear, Start the Success: A 2-Minute Leadership Truth

Want to unlock your team’s true potential? In this quick video, I share a recent coffee conversation that revealed a critical leadership blind spot – how well-intentioned feedback can actually create fear and freeze performance. Learn practical steps to transform your leadership approach and create an environment where your people can truly shine. Whether you’re … Continue reading

Office Mandates: Efficiency or Exit Strategy?

Amazon’s recent announcement mandating return-to-office and flattening management structure raises important questions about the future of work and leadership transparency. In this video, we break down the real implications of RTO mandates, examine the intersection of workforce management and corporate strategy, and offer practical guidance for leaders navigating these challenges. Whether you’re a business leader, … Continue reading

Grow or Go? Why Companies Should Choose Growth

Are companies making a costly mistake by laying off employees while simultaneously hiring new ones? In this video, I challenge the status quo of workforce management and propose a revolutionary approach to employee retention. Discover how investing in your existing talent pool can lead to a more engaged, versatile, and loyal workforce. Learn practical strategies … Continue reading

Learning Lanes Over Ladders: The Agile Blueprint for Innovation

In today’s world, the traditional career path is outdated. Embracing continuous learning and adaptability unlocks success for individuals and organizations. This insightful video explores how cultivating curious learners can future-proof businesses and drive innovation. Discover how empowering employees to explore interests and build diverse skillsets fosters a highly motivated, creative workforce. Curious learners approach challenges … Continue reading

Unlock Your Emerging Leader’s Potential with The Leadership Leap

I’m excited to introduce you to The Leadership Leap – a transformative 3-week virtual workshop tailored for individuals new to leading others. I understand the challenge of nurturing emerging leaders without a structured development program. The transition from individual contributor to team manager can be daunting, and I firmly believe that simply “learning on the … Continue reading

Seeing with New Eyes: Unlocking Human Potential

In this video, I reflect on the remarkable human capacity for growth and transformation. Drawing from the experience of attending a physician’s residency match ceremony, I explore a vital leadership principle: the need for me to continually reexamine my views of others as they evolve and develop new talents. Too often we get stuck in … Continue reading

Skills-based hiring? Use the 4P’s!

Still using a job description written by someone else many years ago to recruit people today? Consider skills-based hiring to broaden and build a deeper talent pool, Skills-based hiring is more than technical skills needed for a specific role, a person needs operational, relational and behavioral competencies to be effective in the workflow process. When … Continue reading

Growth is Skills-based

There’s a new term you may have heard about, it’s the “skills-based organization,” or SBO for short, that centers on the skills and business behaviors people need on the job and it’s moving into the center of talent development. These skills are the combined professional and personal capabilities and what a person demonstrates as they … Continue reading

Lead your way to the Great Retention!

With the Great Re(fill in your term!) going on what options are you using to fill your open positions? Have you looked internally? Do you know who has the required skills and is ready to make the move?  Odds are you don’t as I discovered on a project to create a common competency skills framework … Continue reading

Career pathing & Competencies, Part 4: Competencies to career path

When there are career options and areas to grow people tend to stay adding their expertise and experience to the organization’s growing knowledge base. Knowing the competencies needed in a new role enables current employees to identify the specific business behaviors and professional skills they need to have to be prepared to grow and move … Continue reading

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