Most teams start January with renewed energy and all the best intentions to make positive changes for the year ahead. By February, the momentum inevitably stalls. By March, people have reverted to their usual ways of working. Successful teams invest time upfront to align on what work matters most for...
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Leadership In Action: Perspective Building
Finding Clarity in the Year-End Clearing December brings a peculiar challenge. As a leader, you’re expected to plan for the coming year—to set goals, establish priorities, and project confidence about a future you can’t fully see. But reacting and adapting to the current year’s constant disruptions has left...
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Michael Randel has successfully completed the requirements of the “Associated Certified Coach” certification with the International Coaching Federation. This is a robust assessment process that validates Michael’s experience, training, and development as a leadership and executive coach. Michael said “While I’ve been coaching leaders for many years now, it’s great...
Read More >>Leadership In Action: Priority Anchors
When Everything Is a Priority, Nothing Is You have too much on your plate. You’re wearing yourself out by trying to attend to everything you believe you have to do. What’s worse, you are not leaving yourself any ‘strategic slack’ to either deal with unexpected developments nor prepare for...
Read More >>Leadership In Action: Team Perseverance
Addressing Collective Exhaustion Without Trying to Fix the Unfixable Your team is exhausted. This is a reality that is not discussed much. This is not simply the exhaustion that follows long hours or challenging projects. This is the bone-deep weariness arising from months, perhaps even years, of operating in...
Read More >>Stop Fixing the Wrong Team Problems: Why the GRPI Model Changes Everything
You know the feeling. Your team is struggling—meetings feel unproductive, deadlines slip, and there’s an undercurrent of tension you can’t quite put your finger on. So you do what most leaders do: you focus on the people problems. You organize team-building exercises, facilitate difficult conversations, or bring in consultants...
Read More >>Leadership In Action: Optimism
Finding Your Foundation When Everything Feels Unsteady The Resilience Paradox: Why Optimism Isn’t Optional Here’s what I’ve learned after years of working with leaders in crisis: resilience isn’t about being tough enough to power through. It’s about being adaptive enough to find solid ground, even when the landscape...
Read More >>Empowered Leadership: From Uncertainty to A Confident Leadership Transition
Have you heard our clients describe what happens when they work with us? Empowered Leadership: From Uncertainty to A Confident Leadership Transition When Janet and Michelle approached me about their year-long leadership transition at a regional educational association, they balanced enthusiasm with healthy skepticism. “We’ve worked together effectively for...
Read More >>Beyond Solutions – How This Team Transformed From Within
Have you heard our clients describe what happens when they work with us? Beyond Solutions – How This Team Transformed From Within At our first meeting, the CEO of a 200-person financial services firm shared a powerful realization: their company had fallen out of alignment with the diverse, multicultural...
Read More >>Building Personal Resilience: Simple Practices for Challenging Times
In a recent newsletter, I introduced the concept of “personal resilience” as a foundational element for organizational strength. This post is part of a series exploring more concrete ways to develop this critical capacity. As leaders, we often focus on organizational systems while neglecting the foundation upon which they...
Read More >>Rebuilding from the Ground Up – Coaching Impact
Have you heard our clients describe what happens when they work with us? Rebuilding from the Ground Up: Revitalizing an Academic Department When James accepted the interim chair position at a prestigious university department, he inherited what many would consider a leadership vacuum—the department had lost not only its...
Read More >>Resources for Psychological Safety
“Psychological safety is the belief that in a group you’re a part of you can ask a question, make a mistake, take a risk, ask for help without fear of embarrassment, exclusion, or retribution.” The Psychological Safety Playbook Interested to learn more about Psychological Safety and the different it makes in the workplace? I’ve...
Read More >>Transforming Uncertainty into Clarity
Have you heard our clients describe what happens when they work with us? Transforming Uncertainty into Clarity When Sarah stepped into leadership at a national nonprofit, she faced what many would consider an impossible situation. As the eighth leader in just four years, she inherited an organization in turmoil—lacking...
Read More >>Unlocking Potential – How External Insights Transformed This Team
Have you heard our clients describe what happens when they work with us? Unlocking Potential: From Resistance to Cohesion When Sam stepped into his new leadership role at a global pharmaceutical company, he inherited more than a team—he inherited a tribe. With deep loyalties to their previous leader and...
Read More >>Planning the Work – a practical tool for teams
How hard can it be to develop a plan? You’d be surprised at just how challenging it can be! There are so many things that can go wrong – both in the process of developing the plan, and in the process of implementing the plan. But I think there is one...
Read More >>Steps to a Successful Leadership Transition
Leadership Transitions can be hard. Even The Walt Disney Company has stumbled, as this article points out, highlighting its efforts to land on the right path. types of organizational change The problem: companies are not aware that they are engaging in ‘magical thinking’ when it comes to leadership transitions. Organizations,...
Read More >>The Wisdom of the Crowd!
Unleashing Collective Wisdom: Using “Wise Crowds” to Supercharge your Leadership In today’s fast-paced environment, leaders are continually confronted by new and unfamiliar situations. This means that they are also looking for guidance on how to deal with these novel challenges. When you are facing something you’ve not encountered before,...
Read More >>Celebrating Team Victories!
Congratulations! You’ve done it! organizational change leadership You’re at the end of your change initiative, and, despite earlier concerns, things have ended successfully! How are you going to celebrate this accomplishment? Here are some ideas of activities that you can do together as a team! Team lunch or dinner: Organize...
Read More >>Team Retrospective – a tool to learn at the end of an organizational change initiative
What happens at the end of an organizational change initiative? If you search online or through books and articles on managing change, there are surprisingly few resources to guide change leaders. organizational change leadership However, the ending phase of change (the Harvesting phase in the RCA Seasons of Growth framework)...
Read More >>Smooth Handovers Enable Continued Success
The end is in sight! The finish line is close! At last, you can declare success and bring this change initiative to an end! Or can you? What might happen to all of the hard work that you and the team have put into this project? We’re in the final phase...
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