Executive Leadership & Culture Blog
Change Experts Bill Pasmore, Mike Manning, to Introduce New Change Management Assessment
Free change management workshop Friday, February 7, 2020 Identifying & Measuring the Behaviors for Leading Change Organizational change can be difficult, but that’s no excuse for doing it poorly. A team of scholars, led by Dr. Bill Pasmore of Columbia University and including Dr. Mike Manning, of Benedictine University’s Center…
Continue reading→Leading High Performing Teams: 5 Evidence-Based Insights
What does science have to say leading high performing teams? In a recent executive education webinar from the Center for Values-Driven Leadership, we shared 5 insights drawn from contemporary research. Watch the video at the link below. Want your team to meet and exceed goals this year? Research suggests…
Continue reading→Why is Everyone Talking about Feedback?
There’s a distinct difference between criticism and feedback. One inspires, the other deflates. Learn the difference, so you can grow in your ability to give feedback that gets heard.
Continue reading→Building Better Businesses & Leaders Through Procurement: One Executive’s Journey
As a college senior, Cheryl Harris says she didn’t have her eye on a career in procurement. “I knew how to spell procurement,” jokes Harris. Decades later, Harris, the Senior Vice President for Procurement with Fortune 100 company Allstate, believes procurement is her destiny. “I made the mistake once of…
Continue reading→Hospital CEO Dave Schreiner on How Values-Driven Leadership Impacts Rural Healthcare
Schreiner participates in a strategic planning session for KSB Hospital. Rural healthcare is facing a crisis. Since 2010, 107 U.S. hospitals have closed, most of them rural, due to aging populations and rising costs. Yet in many cases, no other healthcare options exist for miles, sometimes hours. As CEO of…
Continue reading→Building a Culture of Innovation: How To Get Creativity Flowing At Work
We recently completed a six part series on creativity at work, in our column at Forbes.com. Drawing from research, our experience, and interviews with experts, we identified seven tips for making the innovation magic happen at work. You’ll find those tips below, along with links to the original articles. But…
Continue reading→Three Steps for Giving Feedback that Works: Find it, Flip it, Elevate it
“The last 10 percent is always the hardest part,” a direct report once said as he invited me to share what I was truly thinking about his performance. Despite the open invitation, I found it hard to offer honest, direct feedback. For those of us taught to be kind, delivering…
Continue reading→Avoid Risk, Make Innovation Possible: Psychological Safety As the Path To High-Performance
This article was originally published at Forbes.com. Photo by Daria Shevtsova from Pexels Is it safe to bring your ideas to work? To bring your whole self? Lack of psychological safety is a barrier to creating a high-performing team. Not long ago, our attention was caught by an article* on…
Continue reading→Are You An Architect of Culture? Here are Your 10 Building Blocks
They say everyone knows what water is except a fish. Most people are like that about culture: they recognize it when they see it but find it hard to define in their own businesses. This creates a problem for leaders. If you cannot define your culture, you also cannot celebrate what is…
Continue reading→This Book List Will Almost Earn You A Ph.D. In Leadership
This article was originally published at Forbes.com. Some books stick with you, long after you’ve closed the cover. The best books linger for decades, changing the way you look at the world. Those were the sorts of books we requested when we asked 20 world-class scholars to recommend titles for…
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