Archive for January 2014

Self-Awareness As Self-Coaching

As an executive coach, and adjunct college professor, I see a lot of personality types and talk with a host of people from across various industries and jobs. I’ve done this long enough now that I’m not surprised by most of what I see or hear, but what I’ve always found most challenging and rewarding […]

Career Choices: The Year In Review

This time of year is a great time to think about the choices that you’ve made this past year and to think about the choices that lie ahead. Making progress in your career is about making choices. I’ve talked and wrote about being stuck in the middle, have given lots of free and paid advice, […]

Put People Planning In Play For 2014

At the beginning of the year there should be time committed to reflection on all accounts. It’s a great time in the business world to take stock of what you, your team and your organization were able to accomplish last year. And it is after the drama of year-end reviews. The end of year reviews, […]

High Tide: Evolutionary Cultural Change

Most organizations that I’ve consulted with or have worked for primarily focus their talent management efforts on a small cadre of individuals. These folks are commonly known as “high potentials” within the organization. The field of leadership development and talent management has been explicit in its focus of narrowing efforts toward the few and the […]