There was a line of lawyers waiting to talk to me and I promise crime had nothing to do with it. I’d just wrapped up an hour-long session on Coaching 101 for a group of lawyers. I’ve observed that lawyers like giving advice. I mean, that’s what they’re supposed to do, right? So learning to […]
What The Heck Is Executive Coaching?
“What the heck is executive coaching?” I get asked that question many times a day. I admit that coaching is a nebulous term. When I say that I’m a certified coach, people ask if I coach sports teams. When I say that I actually coach work teams, people look surprised. ‘Why would a work team […]
Conflict in the Workplace? 7 Ways to Resolve It
Crucial conversation sounds like a serious life or death conversation. It’s not. Instead, it’s a concept pioneered by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, and Al Switzler that describes a conversation between two or more people where the stakes are high, opinions vary, and emotions run strong. We tend to avoid crucial conversations at work. […]
Win without fighting
As a manager, you have likely encountered unmanageable employees. Egomaniacs. Slackers. Employees who go AWOL when you need them, miss deadlines, chase away clients, and fracture your team’s orale. The list could probably go on forever, because there seems to be no end to the new and creative ways that employees find to become unmanageable. […]
Three Ways Learning Agility Can Help Your Career Growth
We have a guest blog this week about a fascinating topic: Learning agility. Thanks for David Hoff, co-author of Learning Ability-The Key to Leader Potential. Learning agility is finding yourself in a new situation and not knowing what to do – but then figuring it out. Why would that be important? In an organizational context, […]
Optimize Your Recruitment Process by Using Competencies
Recently, we wrote about the five steps to optimize employee development with a competency framework. This 5-step process begins with identifying organizational competencies and determining expected proficiencies by employee position and continues. The next two steps include assessing competencies and aligning the current proficiency with organizational needs and career aspirations. Finally, each employee should track […]
Why Leadership Training Fails
It happens all the time. Senior leaders seek leadership training to strengthen the leadership team. Yet they don’t know exactly what will make their individual leaders better in their roles. Some will base their leadership coaching training programs on the flavor of the month, such as emotional intelligence. They have heard in leadership circles how […]
How to Train Your Staff with a Decreasing Budget
In our last blog, How to Use the 70/20/10 Model to Develop Careers, we discussed the “what”, “when” and “how” of using the 70/20/10 Adult Learning Model for employee development. Now let’s discuss the “why”. Managers face daily decisions to ensure their team gets what’s needed for success. But with budgets getting smaller, it’s hard […]
Eight Ways to Improve People Processes in Your Organization
People are a critical part of every organization’s balance sheet. Investments related to acquiring, retaining, developing, and inspiring employees are critical to your organization’s success, requiring a thoughtful strategy to build and maintain a productive workforce. CHCI’s talent life cycle, called PRIDALRM, refers to the interrelated strategies that support the most important assets of an […]
How to Use the 70/20/10 Model to Develop Careers
Did you know there is a tool to develop your skills and competencies that costs little to no money? It’s called the 70/20/10 Adult Learning Model (pronounced – seventy, twenty, ten). Before we explain how the 70/20/10 model can help you develop career goals, let’s look at three types of learning strategies: pedagogy, andragogy and […]
