Thank You to Wally Bock and Three Star Leadership

My good friend and mentor-from-a-distance, Wally Bock, announced yesterday that he will no longer be adding content to his fabulous and long-running Three Star Leadership Blog. Wally is shifting gears to focus on his book writing/coaching practice. In this article, I share my thanks and great regard for someone who has inspired me for years.

Reaching for the Executive Ranks? Part Two—Cultivating Executive Presence

I'm fascinated by the topic of executive presence and particularly by the feedback many receive that sounds like, "You need to work on strengthening your executive presence." This feedback typically leaves people stressed and needing clarification. In this article, I strive to demystify executive presence and offer some tips and resources for strengthening yours.

Leadership Development is Indeed Failing Us—Time for a New Approach

When it came to leadership development investments, as an executive, it grew frustrating to send people to name-brand organizations and have them return with a "nice experience," a big bill, and no visible strengthened abilities or sustained changes.

Four Ideas for Leaders to Get Back-To-Learning this Fall Season

We need more time to adjust our altitude to see the big picture in our industry or peer over the horizon in search of trigger events that might change everything. Here are four ideas to help stimulate leader learning.

Seven Things Management Teams (Repeatedly) Get Wrong with Strategy Work

I’ve observed just about every type of dysfunction or malfunction possible with strategy work. Here are the misfires I see most often. Take heed, get the right help, and do everything possible to avoid these tripping points. Your firm’s future and probably your job depends on it.

The Culture, Strategy, and Performance Killing Spiral of Poor or No Feedback

While we regularly focus on feedback as an individual performance tool, it's also a critical communication tool for driving improvement across groups and for processes and initiatives. Yet, this important, honest communication is in short supply in too many organizations.

We’re Evaluating Professional Development Investments the Wrong Way

The search for the return on investment from professional development activities has been a long, unresolved quest for many HR and Learning and Development professionals. It turns out we're looking at it all wrong. The real challenge is for an organization's managers and leaders to CREATE the return on investment from professional development.

Leadership Caffeine™—”This Is the Way It Should Be”

Teaming and collaboration experiences happen in all walks of our professional and personal lives. Some experiences working with others are draining, others passable, and just a few are energizing and even fun and successful. You can hope these fun, productive experiences emerge by chance. Or you can be deliberate about creating the conditions that improve the possibility of a great collaboration experience. I opt for improving our odds of bringing one of these productive, fun experiences to life. Here are four ideas to help:

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