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Coaching Success Story: The Micromanaging COO
Susan* is a Chief Operating Officer (COO) in a professional services organization. Highly experienced and technically brilliant, she was recently promoted to her role as COO with five direct reports...
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Coaching Success Story: The Demanding Director
Martha is a marketing project director in a pharmaceutical organization and reports to the Chief Marketing Officer (CMO). Because of her forward-thinking, strategic capabilities she is very effective...
View ArticleIn Print: Human Resource Champions
Human Resource ChampionsBoston, Harvard Business School Press, 1997by Dave UlrichBased on his past work as an HR executive and client work, Ulrich sets the stage for helping HRprofessionals move to a...
View ArticleResearch Brief: Executive coaching produces a 689% ROI
The article describes an ROI study of an executive coaching program at Booz Allen in which coachinggenerated a 689% return on investment.Coachees were surveyed, as well as their direct reports managers...
View ArticleResearch Brief: A 30,000' View of the Evolution of Leadership Development
Two researchers from the Center for Creative Leadership (CCL) have written a compelling article thatsummarizes past and present trends in leadership development, as well as their predictions for the...
View ArticleIn Print: Resilient Leadership for Turbulent Times
Resilient Leadership for Turbulent TimesRowman & Littlefield: 2009By Jerry L. Patternson, George A. Goens and Diane E. ReedResearchers Patternson, Goens, and Reed have written a well-supported,...
View ArticleResearch Brief: Workplace HR Trends and Implications for Developing Leaders
Leadership development is an important part of the solution for helping organizations successfully respond to emerging workplace trends.Based on a 2011 Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)...
View ArticleResearch Brief: ROI study comparing classroom, online and blended learning
A training supplier case study/evaluative research study that examined the impact of three trainingmodalities on learners at American Express: (1) web-based only, (2) classroom-based, and (3) blended...
View ArticleSaying goodbye to my mentor: Reflections on Charlie Seashore
The news of Charlie's death a few weeks ago was tough enough to process. As a friend, colleague and my former dissertation chairman at Fielding, we had just spoken several weeks prior. Then to hear the...
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Crucibles of Leadership: Book Review
Crucibles of Leadership: How to learn from experience to become a great leaderBoston, Harvard Business School Press, 2008.by Robert J. ThomasThis book deeply explores the importance and power of...
View ArticleResearch Brief: Leadership Resilience, Wisdom, and Self-Efficacy
Researchers Svence and Greaves attempted to determine if there is a relationship between resilience, wisdom and general self-efficacy (GSE) for leaders. GSE is defined as overall confidence in ones’...
View ArticleResearch Brief: Talent Management Insights for Executive Coaches in Healthcare
Those of us who are executive coaches are typically so focused on individual leaders we coach that we may lack awareness of the larger organizational leadership context within which we work. Yet, the...
View ArticleResearch Brief: Self-Talk and Leadership Effectiveness
Highly accomplished people have a powerful ability to self-regulate their thoughts and behaviors. This translates to being able to set challenging goals and take consistent action to achieve them. An...
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Research Brief: Evaluating the impact of strengths-based coaching
Despite the countless dollars spent on executive coaching in organizations and the popularity of coaching as a leadership development intervention, relatively little quality research exists that...
View ArticleBuilding Support for a Volunteer Leadership Development Program
With an overall increase in the number of associations recognizing the need to provide formal leadership development programs for members, association managers often struggle to create sustainable...
View ArticleIntentional Resiliency: Thriving in job loss and transition
Viktor Frankl, a psychologist and writer who survived as a prisoner during the Holocaust, observed how the ability to make meaning from challenges people face is a key ingredient to growth. He also...
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Leadership Mentoring for Associations: Study Findings
Mentoring is a powerful way to help professionals in any field develop. For that reason, most associations have established formal mentoring programs as a valued member service. However, relatively few...
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Icon of Intentional Resiliency: Gabby Giffords
While writing the book Intentional Resiliency with my colleague Lynn Schmidt, I've become so much more aware of powerful examples of people in the world who are thriving despite experiencing great...
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Headspace: Mindfulness App
Hundreds of scientific studies have concluded that mindfulness and associated practices pay big dividends to leaders who want to improve their effectiveness and focus. Of course, the big challenge is...
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Leading Teams: Free Podcast
How can you create a high-functioning, healthy team that both achieves its task goals as well as providing a positive experience for team members?Professor Mary Shapiro answers this question in a free...
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Productivity Wizard: Goal Setting & Tracking App
I am constantly in search of the best goal setting and tracking app. Generally, I find that those apps that are good at helping you identify your goals are lousy at the process of executing toward your...
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I Am Malala: Book Review
In the process of co-authoring Intentional Resiliency with Lynn Schmidt, I have been devouring stories of women around the world who resiliently faced significant adversity and thrived. This book is a...
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The power of believing that you can improve: Ted Talk Video
The process of remaining resilient in the midst of tough times is a complex process of coping that relies on a number of factors such as optimism, social support, and problem-centered coping. One...
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Achieving Your New Year's Goals: New Insights
January is the time of year where many of us proclaim our resolutions to save more money, lose weight, or better manage their career. However, for some these plans go awry within a couple of months...
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Goal Setting and Self-Control: New Insights
Setting a goal is easy. Achieving a goal is tough.Recent research has underscored the importance of identifying the importance of anticipating potential obstacles and ways to resolve those challenges,...
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Purpose, Meaning, and Resiliency: Insights from an aging father
My passion for supporting the resiliency of my clients has taken on an unexpected new twist as I consider ways to help my aging father navigate the loss of his resiliency and diminishing will to...
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A Boy Named Sue: Building leadership resilience through challenging assignments
And he said: "Son, this world is roughAnd if a man's gonna make it, he's gotta be toughAnd I knew I wouldn't be there to help ya along.So I give ya that name and I said goodbyeI knew you'd have to get...
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Health impacts of working long hours worse for women: What's going on?
Writer Valentina Zarya recently published an article in Fortune magazine based on recent research that explores the negative implications for women of working long hours. The study she cites suggests...
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Living a Resilient Life: Lessons learned from my Grandma
For much of my adult life, I’ve been fascinated by the ways people sustain their resiliency in the face of tough times. This interest led me to focus my dissertation research on the topic and...
View ArticleVideo Blog: Introduction to Shift Into Thrive (Day 1)
The first in a series of 7 videos introducing the book I co-authored with Dr. Lynn Schmidt - Shift Into Thrive: Six Strategies for Women to Unlock the Power of Resiliency.
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Building Resiliency: Enhancing Self-Care
As coaches, a big part of our role is helping our clients resiliently navigate tough times and thrive despite setbacks. Through interviews with coaches that worked with women facing career derailment...
View ArticleVideo Blog: Shift Into Thrive - Strengthen Support Networks (Day 2)
This video is the second of 7 I will be sharing to launch the book I co-authored with Dr. Lynn Schmidt - Shift Into Thrive: Six Strategies for Women to Unlock the Power of Resiliency. Today's video...
View ArticleVideo Blog: Shift Into Thrive - Clarify Purpose (Day 3)
This video is the third of 7 I will be sharing to launch the book I co-authored with Dr. Lynn Schmidt - Shift Into Thrive: Six Strategies for Women to Unlock the Power of Resiliency. Today's video...
View ArticleVideo Blog: Shift Into Thrive - Self-Awareness (Day 4)
This video is the fourth of 7 I will be sharing to launch the book I co-authored with Dr. Lynn Schmidt - Shift Into Thrive: Six Strategies for Women to Unlock the Power of Resiliency. Today's video...
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Proactivity and Career Resiliency: Pearls of wisdom from Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin’s declaration that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure” is a timeless formula for sustaining ones’ career resiliency.Effective coping skills are an essential ingredient...
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The life and legacy of James A. Nourse
My father was the embodiment of resilience, grounded optimism, tenacity, and service. Dad could be both insensitive and compassionate - a loner and loyal friend - structured and silly – fierce and the...
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Leaders That Thrive: Sleep, mindfulness, and resiliency
Consider the case of Susan. She is a Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) in a large medical center. In the past six months, she’s been leading a major quality initiative in her organization in addition to her...
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Building Organizational Resiliency Through Leadership
We usually think about resiliency 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...
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Reigniting Resiliency in a Burned Out Leadership Team
Steve is a CEO in a 300-bed healthcare system and has four senior executives that report directly to him. In the past two years, the executive team has faced significant and seemingly non-stop...
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Maximizing the Investment in Leadership Team Retreats
You’ve invested significant time and resources in bringing together your leadership team for a retreat, made big gains in building trust and alignment, and have a list of follow-up tasks. Participants...
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Improving the Impact of Team Building Efforts
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...
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Research Briefs: Enhancing leadership team effectiveness through shared...
Recent social science research has provided more answers regarding the factors that contribute to higher team performance.Four researchers from Denmark and the USA (Fausing et al., 2013) conducted a...
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Leader Success: The Importance of Context and Structure
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...
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Developing Volunteer Leaders: Preventing the Webinar from Hell
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...
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Research Briefs: Building resilience
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...
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Transformational Volunteer Leadership Development
I just facilitated a graduation webinar for 30 participants in an association leadership development program (A-LDP) and was reminded why I love what I do so much. More than once, participants...
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8 Strategies to Justify a Volunteer Leadership Development Program
Your leadership team has expressed an interest in using a more structured approach to developing volunteer leaders beyond a workshop or two. Since association boards do not lack for numerous...
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Democratizing Change Leadership
Research in the field of change leadership suggests that organizations that provide the necessary change leadership skills and support to all employees, regardless of formal title, are better equipped...
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