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Driving new growth: Don’t assume your team’s skills are right for what’s next
In mountain climbing, reaching a mid-mountain plateau is not as fulfilling as ascending to the summit. Rarely will any climber start out to scale a mountain with the idea of stopping at a plateau below the summit. But in planning the assault on the mountain, veteran climbers know that different skills and capabilities are needed … Continue reading Driving new growth: Don’t assume your team’s skills are right for what’s next
Achieve Breakthrough Performance with More Effective Leadership
Growth is good. But growth can be really hard. Maybe your organization’s growth has plateaued. Why has it stalled? Is the issue in strategy, alignment, execution, backlog, or capacity? Maybe all these areas? Or maybe you have the opposite problem, and growth is exploding and your team can’t keep up. What needs to change to … Continue reading Achieve Breakthrough Performance with More Effective Leadership
UMass Amherst announces affiliation with IntelliVen
September 9, 2020 AMHERST, Mass. – The University of Massachusetts Amherst has announced a new collaboration with IntelliVen, a leading executive team development organization, to provide interactive, remote learning programs designed to raise the performance and effectiveness of leadership teams. The collaboration represents another step in developing a robust portfolio of options for UMass Amherst alumni … Continue reading UMass Amherst announces affiliation with IntelliVen
3 Truths and 6 Power Skills to Master Organization Politics
Organization politics make a lot of people uncomfortable. The untrained hope is that if politics are ignored, and if a job is done well, then well-earned rewards will come. Things rarely play out that way.
Case: The Ideal Mix of Sr. Executive Team Skills for Success
Do you know what your fellow executives need to do to improve but lack the time, training, and skill to share what you know?
Here’s a fast and easy way for executives to tell each other what s/he needs to know to improve.
Ten Steps to Drive Change from the Inside
If you are frustrated by an organization resistant to embracing a change you believe is right, consider using the following steps as a road map to seeing your ideas through to reality.
Private Equity investors leverage intelligence as well as Dollars
Private equity (PE) investors have come a long way since they first appeared shortly after World War II. Their initial edge was their ability to do financial engineering where debt was used to make every dollar invested (note, invested dollars are called equity) generate a return multiple times what was originally invested (a.k.a.: multiple of … Continue reading Private Equity investors leverage intelligence as well as Dollars
How Leaders Learn From Those With a Stake in Their Success
There is now even more change in how leaders and followers relate. Specifically, we see more emphasis on a leader’s capacity to build and sustain an inclusive and high-trust relationship with a loyal, capable, and motivated followership.
How to Make Meetings Powerful Using a Pen
There really is “power in the pen”. The person who takes notes on meeting and then drafts and distributes the Meeting Record is demonstrating leadership.
3 Levels of Human Identity Can Be Used to Build Relationships Across Difference
To start, it helps to have common language and frameworks that make it possible to understand the complexities of communication dynamics posed by working across social group identities such as age, ability, gender, culture, class, race, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.
A Practical Guide to Building and Running a High-Performing Board
There is a lot more value that can be derived from working with the board but it takes a lot of work in building, cultivating, and working with boards.
What makes an exceptional W-W-W
The purpose of a business is to solve a problem for a customer…which drives every leadership team to align on its WWW; that is on WHAT their organization provides to WHO and WHY customers buy it from them.