One of the things my clients hire me to do is to help them facilitate leadership retreats and assist with the most important element – the conclusion of the retreat and the agreements reached. You know how much work goes into pulling together a team of firm leaders, fine-tuning the agenda, and then running the…
Turn an engineer into a good manager. Yes, it can be done!
Recruitment practices have changed so drastically over the last few years, and social media outlets like LinkedIn have been both praised and cursed by recruiters and job seekers alike. In the past few decades, organizations focused on “competencies” in hiring and developing talent. Markets today are too volatile and complex and the market for top…
I just read a fascinating article by Bryan L. Bonner and Alexander R. Bolinger regarding bringing out the best in teams (HBR, September 2014 – Bring Out the Best in Your Team). I have always been a proponent of bringing out the best in people, so this research really interested me. We’ve all been in…
Look around your office. Is there a balance of male and female talent throughout your firm and across your team? If your field is academic science or engineering, I would guess probably not. In a 2012 review of recent work sociologist Lara Perez-Felkner of Florida State University and her colleagues revealed that by age five,…