How do you show leadership development ROI? Start with the realization you may be chasing a unicorn. Instead, there are four important questions you need to ask.
Author Archive | Michael Melcher
The Secret to Finding Lasting Career Satisfaction
A successful career requires occasionally taking a step back and looking at the big picture.
Effective Listening for Leaders
Most leaders are good talkers but not such great listeners. Real leadership depends on two key skills: listening effectively and asking powerful questions.
Leading Change: Overcome 3 Common Pitfalls
Learn how to overcome three common pitfalls for leaders steering mission-driven organizations through uncertainty and change.
Northland Controls: How One CEO’s Values Led to Explosive Growth
What happens when a company with a poor reputation and low morale aligns around five core values? It grows from $1.5 million to $60 million in 10 years.
Are Your Leaders Prepared To Take Your Organization Where It Needs To Go?
Learn key considerations for evaluating where to make a strategic investment in leadership development for your organization.
From Organizational Turbulence to Sustainable Success: A Path for Leaders
The heady days of fast growth are thrilling, but how do you lead your organization to sustainable success as it gets bigger?
The Secret Lives of CEOs
If you are a CEO, you’re likely to wrestle with complex career questions for which your previous experience doesn’t provide clear answers.
How to Create a Culture of Innovation: A Guide for Leaders
How a growth mindset that employs powerful questions can spur innovation by opening up discussion and solutions.
20 Minutes a Day to Career Fulfillment
By devoting just 20-minutes a day, career fulfillment and success at work are within reach. This article gives useful guidance for daily career action.
Leadership Development: Getting Your Executive Team on Board
For all HR leaders who need to get executive team support for Leadership Development programs, we have some tried and true approaches and tips.
2015: Year of the Great Boss
Fewer things affect quality of work more than someone’s relationship with their supervisor. Learn about the hallmarks of a great boss and you too can be one of them.
Why Thinking Like a Lawyer Is Bad For for Your Career.
When you apply thinking like a lawyer to your career, there’s a good chance you’ll conclude that future possibilities or unfamiliar behaviors probably won’t work. So you probably won’t try, or try hard enough. (more…)
Recognizing Change When We See It.
Have you ever experienced one of those moments when you know that what you’ve been doing will no longer work – that your team is self-destructing by having the same debilitating struggles, or that you are damaging your long-term health by attempting to maintain unmanageable levels of stress (more…)
