In recent client planning sessions, I’ve noticed a troubling trend: many leaders don’t listen. Oh don’t get me wrong, the leaders hear words. They hear the initial few words uttered by one or two planning team members, but they don’t grasp the members’ intended messages. Why? It’s not because the team members don’t speak...
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I recently bumped into “Terry,” the president of a company I worked with four years ago.  During my engagement with them, we’d done strategic planning, leadership succession planning, and lots of management team and systems development (i.e., process and procedures development and management training). Because it’d been awhile since I’d worked with them, I...
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We have a special guest on the blog today. Technology expert Gina Schreck, founder of Synapse. Gina has written a terrific article that we’d like to share with you.   Leaders: Why Your Organization Should Not Be Using Social Media By Gina Schreck I am a social media nut… I’ll be the first to...
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I never met Robert ‘Tink’ Lehmer. I wish I had. He thought the way great leaders think. I say this because of a little poem he wrote in 1976. Tink’s poem was shared during a Leadership Training program graduation ceremony I recently attended. My hope for the graduates is that they paid attention and...
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