“Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.” – Albert Einstein You’ve most likely heard the phrase, “Hire for attitude; you can always train and test for skills.” Hard skills for any job can usually be tested. A simple example would be for typing skills –you can measure a candidate’s…
Using FeedForward to get Unique Perspectives
FeedForward is an exercise and concept from Marshall Goldsmith, one of the world’s top executive coaches. FeedForward is based on the premise that we can’t do anything about the past, it’s done. What we can focus on is the future. It is a different way of looking at performance reviews…
Your Vision & How to Find It
This week’s video blog post speaks to Vision. As a leader what is your vision for your organization? Do you share that vision with your team? Kouzes & Posner describe vision as “An ideal and unique image of the future for the common good” (the Leadership Challenge, 2017) with the…
Do you know what your core values are?
Kouzes and Posner define values as “moral judgements, responses to others, and commitments to personal and organizational goals that: Help us determine what to do and what not to do. Influence every aspect of our lives. Set the parameters for our decisions we make every day”. We can commit and…
Birds Flock Together – Social Styles, Putting It All Together….
Birds Flock Together – Social Styles, Putting It All Together…. this is the final of 5 videos where I talk about Tracom’s Social Style model. A simple yet every effective way to understand, not only how you prefer to communicate and behave, but also how to recognize how others prefer…