Four Habits of Strategic Leaders
This article explores what it means to be a more strategic leader and provides context, insights and tools for improvement.
Leading Change: Overcome 3 Common Pitfalls
Learn how to overcome three common pitfalls for leaders steering mission-driven organizations through uncertainty and change.
Cultivate Resilience: How to Get Back on the Horse
When you cultivate resilience, you prepare yourself to bounce back from tough challenges, setbacks, difficult experiences or failures.
The Leaders We Need Now: Post-Election Reflections
Reflections on 2016 US presidential election and the leadership qualities needed during times of turmoil and transition.
When Someone On Your Team Isn’t Winning Friends and Influencing People
This article offers guidance on how to help a person on your team who is struggling with the interpersonal aspects of leadership.
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.
Inoculate Yourself Against Leadership Burnout
More often than not, the roots of burnout lie not in how much we’re working, but in why we’re working. This article offers tools to realign and reboot.
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.
Getting Under Your Skin: How To Respond?
As a leader, what you say and do when someone triggers you can either motivate others and build relationships or demoralize and alienate people.
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.
2015 Leaders of the Year
Meet four great leaders of 2015, several of whom are not widely known. We hope they will give you ideas for new directions to take your leadership in 2016.
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.
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.
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.
