Toxic leaders are like weeds in a garden. If allowed to flourish, they will choke the productivity out of others around them.
Utilizing an Evidence-Based DEI Strategy
The most frequent arguments against DEI initiatives are focused around competence and merit. On competence, they argue that a less competent person is receiving an opportunity because they are from a historically disenfranchised group. In actuality, less competent people have been receiving opportunities because they were from the majority population and/or had a relationship that provided them an unfair advantage for decades.
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After having lived in the Midwest most of my life, I have come to recognize spring as pothole repair season. It usually takes place from December to April as municipalities repair potholes caused by the snow, rain and ice from winter storms. Already in 2023, the city of Chicago has repaired 215,000 potholes. If not repaired, potholes can damage a car’s tires, alignment and undercarriage, as well as posing a problem for bicyclists.
Continue reading “Identifying and Filling the Gaps in Your Leadership Practice”Hunting for Toxic Leaders in Your Organization
Radar is used in several aspects of our everyday lives. It works by using electromagnetic sensors to detect, locate, track and recognize objects from a distance. Some common uses include:
- Tracking weather patterns and storms by the weather service
- Tracking and monitoring airplanes by traffic control
- Tracking spacecrafts and other objects by NASA
- Tracking friendly and enemy forces by the military
Strategies to Retain Your Best Leaders in 2023
Organizations lose good people every year. In this current era of workforce disruptions, the losses can be even worse. The challenge for organizations is to minimize the loss of their best leaders. This has implications not just for the current year but could reverberate for years to come from an interruption of your leadership pipeline. There are two strategies organizations should deploy immediately to minimize the loss of their best leaders in 2023 and beyond, including:
Continue reading “Strategies to Retain Your Best Leaders in 2023”THE ELITE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY RELEASES SOLUTION TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF THE CURRENT WORKFORCE DISRUPTIONS
The Elite Leadership Academy Announces New Leadership Resources Management Solution, LeadershipRMS™, to Help Organizations Mitigate the Impact of the Current Workforce Disruptions.
Continue reading “THE ELITE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY RELEASES SOLUTION TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF THE CURRENT WORKFORCE DISRUPTIONS”Is Your Leadership Program Missing the Target?
It is if it doesn’t include a Leadership Resources Management Solution (LRMS). An LRMS is a data-driven approach to managing an organization’s leadership resources. It replaces subjective interviews, relationship-based promotions and selections with a quantifiable, repeatable and unbiased leadership management tool.
The impact of using LeadershipRMS in your organization is significant, including:
Continue reading “Is Your Leadership Program Missing the Target?”Leadership Analytics 247 Information Session
Attend a free information session to view our Leadership Analytics 247 platform, a Leadership Resources Management solution that helps organizations better manage their leadership resources. It can be the difference between keeping and losing your best leaders, the difference between identifying and missing high potential hires, and the difference between promoting people based on leadership potential or based on prior functional success. Each of these could have dire consequences for an organization.
Learn more about the platform, choose a session and register here.
Progressing Leadership by Following a Process
Please take a look at my interview with Rollis Fontenot III from HR Maximizer Inc. on the topic of Progressing in Leadership by Following a Process.
https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6943247352749047808/
A Contrarian’s Thoughts on Leadership Development
My view of leadership has been honed over a 30-plus years career performing and observing leaders at all levels of management. I began codifying my leadership development vision as a professor at Judson University, in their leading Organizational Leadership program. This experience, along with additional research and personal interviews, formed the foundation for the Elite Leadership Process™ detailed in my first leadership book, Prescribing Leadership in Healthcare in 2017. Since then, I have refined my vision with additional research and interviews for second leadership book, The Path to Elite Level Leadership in 2021. Something that I’ve come to realize and accept is that many of the positions I’ve chosen on leadership are contrary to those of many of my colleagues, namely:
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