Why Have Your Corporate Retreat in New Orleans? From soup to nuts (or should I say gumbo to pralines?), New Orleans is an ideal spot for a corporate retreat. Innovation truly happens when employees can experience “slack” in their lives – both personal and professional. A business retreat that combines professional development opportunities, time for real camaraderie with teammates, and “only…
Make Meetings Count: Meeting Facilitators and Why You Want to Hire One “Successful organizations do not treat meetings as a necessary evil. Instead, they view them as a strategic resource and seek out ways to get the most from them.” – The Science and Fiction of Meetings Have you had enough stale meeting pastries and bad coffee to last you the…
Are you in a job you hate and dream of having a career you love? Clueless about where and how to start the job-hunting process? Do you have an “issue” that you need help reframing (being fired, resume gap, switching industries/fields)? Has it been a while since you have interviewed? Do you get interviews but no offers? Finding a…
Recently, two highly regarded leaders I work with told me they’d never heard the term “blind spot” before in reference to leadership development. Talk about a blind spot! I knew then and there that I had my next blog topic. Simply put, a blind spot is when one lacks the awareness that a particular behavior or leadership characteristic is getting…
Adapted from a white paper by Robert J. Devine for CPP – The Myers-Briggs Company Corporate America spends more than $10 billion every year on leadership training, but is it working? Sometimes it’s hard to tell. In the same way businesses report profit and loss every quarter, creating and maintaining good leadership can and should become a measurable, operational process.…
Adapted from an article by David Giwec, MCC, posted on August 15, 2015 on the CHAAD blog “Adults with ADHD are 300% more likely to start their own businesses.” Garret LoPorto in The DaVinci Method (Media for Your Mind, 2005). Common characteristics of ADHD – creativity, multi-tasking and risk-taking – can be strengths when you know how to leverage them. Just look…
