Giving Feedback: Dealing with Defensiveness
A simple model to help you have fruitful feedback conversations and deal skillfully with defensiveness.
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.
Join Our New Online Courses on Coaching and Feedback
Next Step Partners is now offering two new online courses for managers and leaders of all levels: Coaching for Performance & Giving and Receiving Feedback.
On Selecting a Great Executive Coach
NSP Partner Heather Corcoran interviews one of Google’s executive coaches on selecting the coach that will allow for the best outcome.
Newly Updated: The Acclaimed Career Handbook for Working Professionals
Inspired by work with thousands of professionals from all sectors, this updated Career Handbook has become standard-issue at a variety of top MBA programs.
Overcome Immunity to Change: Leadership Exchange Program with Lisa Lahey
Lisa Lahey, co-author of the groundbreaking book, Immunity to Change, will join Next Step Partners in an event for Bay Area business and non-profit leaders.
Immunity to Change: Why We Love This Approach
Immunity to Change is the most effective process we know to address someone’s internal barriers to self-improvement. It makes a difference quickly.
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.
Leadership Exchange: Peer-to-Peer Insights.
Next Step Partners announces Leadership Exchange to connect Bay Area leaders with peers to share perspectives and strategies on current business challenges.
Brandon Hall Honors Genentech and NSP
Brandon Hall awards high honors to Leading in a Global Enterprise, a program that Next Step Partners created with their client, Genentech.
When Empowerment Isn’t Empowering.
Leaders who don’t have time to think are in trouble, as are their organizations. To make time, deciding not to do other things is one option. Otherwise, the time to think, and mental freedom, can come only from true empowerment. (more…)
How a Systems Approach to Coaching Yields a Change Strategy.
Executive Coaching develops the ability of leaders to make a greater impact in their organizations. We determine a coaching program’s focus by what the leader and the people they work with believe will make the biggest, most positive difference. (more…)
Relationship Repair: A Step by Step Guide.
Reengaging in a tense situation can be scary. What if he doesn’t listen? What if she makes you even angrier? But even a tough conversation is better than letting a situation fester. (more…)
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…)
How Good Advice Can Lead to Poor Results.
If the suggestions of other people fundamentally don’t fit with your natural style or address the deeper issues you are grappling with, you are setting yourself up for continued and sometimes greater failure. (more…)
What Congress Can Teach Us about Teamwork.
It’s fine to be unwaveringly committed to goals like opportunity, high-quality education, good health, and security. It’s harmful to be unwaveringly committed to particular ways to reach those goals. For many, the U.S. Congress is without peer when it comes to organizational dysfunction. (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…)
And You Thought the Hard Part Was Getting the Job!
You probably thought that getting through the interviews and getting the offer was the hard part—especially in a bad economy. Or maybe the tricky part was negotiating your compensation package? In reality, it’s the first days, weeks, and months that are the most critical. (more…)
