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Moving the Frame

One of the best ways to find your way around a challenge is literally thinking around it. We often get fixed in place, wearing blinders and seeing only what’s right in front of us. If we could just change perspective, we would likely discover something new that we didn’t see before. In any [...]

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Accent the Positive

I recently attended an evening discussion with Martin Seligman, the author and psychology professor regarded as the founder and sage of positive psychology. His new book, Flourish, focuses on achieving a life of “well-being.”

Seligman suggests we move beyond the search for happiness as the path to “lasting fulfillment”—something he advocated in his [...]

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Supervisor Readiness

I recently had lunch with a client to discuss how to best determine if newly hired or promoted supervisors/managers were ready to take on their role overseeing employees and how to ensure they get what they need to be successful. It reminded me of a conversation I had with another client only about a [...]

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Everyone Should Have a Chance to Grow Professionally and Personally

Not Just the High Potentials

I was meeting with a colleague the other day who mentioned that her organization was only providing opportunities to grow professionally to high potentials. When I asked her why that was happening she mentioned that budgets were still tight and the organization was mainly concerned about ensuring those high [...]

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Are your managers on track to deliver?

Five Critical Management Derailers: Symptoms and Remedies

Times of change present many challenges for organizations, particularly for front-line managers whose people will be responsible for implementing the change. Pressure to perform is high, as are emotions, and everyone is expected to do more with less.

Ironically, the times when you need your managers to [...]