My fellow Willamette U alum and search executive Ron Jordan, founder and principal of Carter-White & Shaw, gave me some well intentioned / well received grief ( “By the way, I am a head hunter, but unlike the ones you have berated, you should talk to us , personally before you make judgments, that are very biased“) last month regarding my post Can You Trust the Recruiter?… Read the rest
[Coaching Tips for Great Leaders] Leading from the Heart
I don’t live in Marin County, California even though my son goes to grade school there. And I’ll confess that I am more likely than not to be Marin-a-phobic.
So if this post reads a little too new age, dharma breath, hot tubs, and organic tofu – in other words, all the stuff you might associate with Marin – be aware that I am one of the most earnest and pragmatic people around.… Read the rest
[Career Coaching Tips] Your Job: Leave or Stay?
Signs of a slow recovery abound which should mean that some form of job uptick will occur. While it’s pretty clear that a rising economic tide will not lift all ships – some jobs, for example, are likely lost forever – the 18-month logjam in the job market appears to be breaking up.
The question for many, as people start to take new jobs with other companies, and their jobs and other jobs as well start to open up, is easy: Stay or go?… Read the rest
[Effective Leader’s Checklist] How Do You Rate?
40 people – including me – who coach leaders and teams as I do, got to spend an evening with Jim Kouzes Tuesday night. It was food for the mind and food for the soul.
Kouzes, along with colleague Barry Posner, authored the award-winning and best-selling book, The Leadership Challenge, which has over 1.8 million copies in print. The duo has also been active in doing field-based research, utilizing a leadership inventory they developed, which now has a database of over 1M respondents.… Read the rest
[Coaching Tips] The Secret to Your Success
While the exact formula for what makes someone successful in work over a period of time is still cloudy, the outlines through research are taking shape. Those outlines can begin to inform who you hire, who you work with, and – if you’re prone to introspection – what your own personal profile looks like.
These trends and factors didn’t just pop-up today: in some cases, as in the importance of emotional intelligence, they’ve been building for decades as the old control and command models of management gave way to greater teamwork and collaboration norms.… Read the rest
[Saturday Morning’s (Junk) Mail] The Information That I Am About to Reveal. . .
From: Mr.Nicola Abraham,
Email: amicablenicola1954@yahoo.fr
Contact from PcmaOnline.com [Note PCMA is a real organization to which I belong called the Professional Coaches and Mentors Association. Somehow the author was able to spoof the contact from field and mail merge the salutation field though Mr. Mike is not a way most folks address me. While I’m looking to add new clients and grow my practice, this is not exactly what I had in mind.… Read the rest