The 30 Days After the Offsite Matter More Than the Offsite
Teams spend weeks planning an offsite. Venue, agenda, pre-work, facilitation. Then they spend almost nothing planning the thirty days that follow, which […]
Team Building Is Not Team Coaching
The two get booked from the same budget line, which is part of the confusion. A leadership team is struggling, someone senior […]
Investment Teams Don’t Have Communication Problems
When an investment partnership calls me, the presenting complaint is usually some version of “we need to communicate better.” Partners talking past […]
What a 360 Is Actually For
I have debriefed hundreds of 360-degree feedback reports with senior leaders, including thirty-five in a single engagement at one investment firm. I […]
Regulation, Range, Respect: Three Questions for Leading Under Pressure
After two decades of coaching senior leaders and reading a great many 360 reports, I have noticed that the feedback themes, however […]
Your Strengths Under Pressure Are Not Your Strengths
Ask a leadership team to list its strengths and you will get an accurate answer, for a Tuesday afternoon when nothing is […]
The Real Reason Leaders Don’t Change
Title: The Real Reason Leaders Don’t Change A senior executive receives clear 360 feedback: delegate more, stop rewriting the team’s work, develop […]
Why Your Team Keeps Having the Same Conversation
Every leadership team has one. The conversation that returns like a season. It might be about strategy versus execution, about how decisions […]
Is It a Technical Problem or a Developmental One?
Before hiring a coach, a consultant, or a facilitator, there is one question worth answering carefully, because it determines everything downstream: is […]
Why I Don’t Teach Leadership Frameworks
I’m not a framework jockey. I don’t have a playbook to optimize you.If you are looking for leadership frameworks, performance models, or […]