Onboard a submarine, crew members must reach a delicate equilibrium of individual vs. team—and too much weight on either side can spell disaster. Read more…
Leadership
You’ve got a tough choice. The performance feedback is in and the message is clear: you’ve been micromanaging your people. They complain about feeling suffocated by the systems and processes you’ve put in place to ensure consistent, quality work. It’s the one blemish on your otherwise positive annual review. You’re told it’s the only thing standing between you …
“Write for five minutes about yourself.” That was all. They were the only instructions we were given. Then we sat together in small groups and read to each other what we had written. I sat with the faculty members who were part of this Catholic healthcare system. They called the five minutes of writing and …
Leadership is an essential element of any successful change effort. I’ve written elsewhere about the powerful approach to develop leadership in organizations through coaching. So that led me to wonder what can we learn from coaching about how to develop better leaders? I recently read an article on John Wooden in The Los Angeles Times. Within the same few …
There’s lots to learn about how to create fast and lasting change from great sports coaches (see my post on the site about John Wooden’s Radical Leadership Style. I have known Bob Benwick for 15 years. We first worked together on a Real Time Strategic Change effort at a bank where he was the senior HR executive. …
I’ve written another article here on the site about how solid leadership support is a critical success factor in any change effort. Given my focus on collaboration, large scale change here is Coaching leaders is one way to help build this support in which my clients and I have benefited from partnering with others. Bob and Bev Benwick are great partners since they …
If you don’t recognize the impact and consequences of your lack of commitment to this mission critical project, you’re going to lose your people’s belief in your reliability as a competent leader. There are five words in the previous sentence that should have grabbed your attention so strongly that you couldn’t stop reading. Can you …