I just kicked off a year-long leadership academy for a group of 20 physicians that are members of an international medical academy. As part of the program, I administered an emotional intelligence self-assessment that opened many participants' eyes about their skills and development needs. A number of the participants asked me whether they should focus […]

Steve is a high-potential analyst in his hospital’s finance department and interested in stepping into this first leadership role. 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 […]

With roots in the positive psychology movement, resilience has quickly emerged in the past 20 years as an important quality and skill for helping adults thrive in their lives and professions. While a number of books and articles have been written about resilience-building strategies in the past ten years, relatively few of these sources are […]

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 and executives that struggle in their current roles. 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, […]

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 shift in their morale. They are much more emotionally reactive, make poor decisions, and become easily rattled in dealing with emerging issues. […]

While there are many factors that enable goal achievement, two of the most important ones are self-efficacy and action orientation.

We usually think about resilience as a skill or quality people can develop to navigate tough times. However, organizational leaders can play a major role in the ability of their direct reports to build and sustain their resilience in the face of adversity. This is particularly true now as so many organizations are struggling to […]

Leadership retreats have traditionally provided valuable opportunities to build relationships and trust...