Author: Kevin Nourse, PhD

Well-crafted leadership development plans include a balance of developing both strengths and weaknesses.

An executive coaching case study of newly promoted leader who nearly derailed

Healthcare leaders thrive when they embrace the mindsets and behaviors of CEOs

Steve is a high-potential analyst in his hospital’s finance department and interested in launching his leadership transition. He was selected for a high potentials leadership program I was facilitating, including 360-degree assessment and executive coaching. With the awareness he gained from the assessment, Steve made great gains in enhancing his performance and addressing the feedback […]

Associations are increasingly using virtual classrooms and webinars to develop volunteer leaders as a means for reducing costs and expanding access to geographically diverse memberships. Having designed and facilitated such programs for nearly a decade, I find that no matter how experienced we are in producing online webinars, stuff happens. Technical glitches can quickly negate […]

As an executive coach, I am often invited into organizations to help peak performing leaders get ready for a promotion to transition into a new role. Performance is the result of a leader's ability as well as the presence of contextual factors that support peak performance. While coaching can help accelerate skill development, learning, and […]

Team building is a process of improving the ability of a team to collaborate and help it both achieve organizational results and fulfill the needs of its participants. Because some groups demonstrate unconscious patterns that limit their effectiveness, these engagements usually involve diagnosis, facilitation, and coaching over many weeks and months. Unfortunately, the investments some […]

Steve is a CEO in a 300-bed healthcare system and has four senior executives that report directly to him. With the stresses and demands of the COVID pandemic, he has noticed a palpable decline in their leadership resilience. They are much more emotionally reactive, make poor decisions, and become easily rattled in dealing with emerging […]

We consider resilience a skill or quality people can develop to navigate challenging times. However, organizational leaders can play a significant role in the ability of their direct reports to build and sustain their resilience in the face of adversity.  A recent study in Group and Organization Management found that transformational leaders contribute to the capacity of […]