Category: Team & Culture
Everything Communicates 24/7 Forever All Ways
EVERYTHING COMMUNICATES Everything you say (and don't say). Everything you do (and don't do). Everything you choose to listen to and observe. 24/7 Anyone who's ever had media training knows…
Read Article
New Leaders, Leadership Style and Self-Awareness
New leaders often think about how they present to others, and many are using coaches to improve their leadership style. The most successful CEOs are interpersonally aware, can read people…
Read Article
Heidrick and Struggles study of 20,000 searches highlights need for onboarding improvements
PrimeGenesis has reduced onboarding failures from 40% to 10%. There is no excuse for others not reapply our learning to do the same. "We’ve found that 40 per cent of…
Read Article
Definition of Onboarding
We’re in the midst of the final copy-edits on our new book, Onboarding – How To Get Your New Employees Up To Speed In Half The Time (Wiley, 2009) and…
Read Article
The Leadership Paradox, I: Managing Potential
One of the many paradoxes of great leadership is the dialectic of developing people versus upgrading talent. Great leaders are able to do both, primarily by intuitively assessing potential. This…
Read Article
Hundred Days: useful or folly?
The Wall Street Journal's David Greenberg recently wrote about "The Folly of the "Hundred Days". He argues that the "hundred days" term has been an unreliable indicator for presidential success,…
Read Article
Reducing Onboarding Risk
40 percent of new leaders fail. This can be devastating for those having to look for another job – and for their hiring manager who is inevitably tainted by the…
Read Article
Improving Meetings
Let’s talk about Meetings. Why not? To paraphrase the great Samuel Clemens, “Everyone talks about meetings, but no one does anything about them.” Meetings are the stuff of life for…
Read Article
Rebuilding Business Stamina While Onboarding After A Layoff
John Paul Newport’s recent article on Tiger’s Search for Golf Stamina (Wall Street Journal March 7, 2009) has some ideas directly applicable to business leaders onboarding into new positions –…
Read Article