DEI initiatives have been coming under attack for a while resulting in several well-known organizations abandoning their DEI programs. These firms either don’t understand DEI or were never really committed to it in the first place. To be clear, DEI in its purest form is not about promoting less competent people over more competent people. It’s about making sure every competent person has a chance to be promoted.
Continue reading “Fortifying Your DEI Initiatives With Data Using Leadership Resources Management”Implementing a Leadership Resources Management Strategy
In the last issue of the newsletter, we explained why organizations need a non-biased, behavior-focused, strategy to actively manage their most valuable resource – leadership. We emphasized that when properly implemented, it can be:
- the difference between keeping or losing your best leaders;
- the difference between identifying or missing high potential hires;
- the difference between eliminating or maintaining a toxic work environment;
- the difference between promoting people based on leadership potential or based on prior functional success.
Resolve to Better Manage Your Leadership Resources in 2025
Let 2025 be the year your organization actively engages in managing their most valuable resource – leadership. Organizations currently try to accomplish this through a variety of means, but most have a high potential for bias or overemphasis on outcomes versus leadership. Maybe it’s time to consider a different strategy that minimizes bias and focuses on leadership behaviors.
Continue reading “Resolve to Better Manage Your Leadership Resources in 2025”The Impact of Toxic Leaders on Your Organization
Toxic leaders are like weeds in your garden or lawn. If you don’t remove them right away, they will infest your entire organization resulting in stifled growth, reduced morale and the departure of quality employees.
Toxic leaders are everywhere, whether organizations want to admit it or not. They can be found in organizations with as little as 100 employees or found in multitudes in larger ones. Unfortunately, they are usually ignored and allowed to choke the growth of those around them, namely, their subordinates and their peers. They are usually accepted and described in satisfactory terms such as hard-working, results-driven, or persistent. On the surface, these traits could describe great employees, but when taken to the extreme, they result in negative outcomes, such as abuse, intimidation and manipulation.
Continue reading “The Impact of Toxic Leaders on Your Organization”What ORGANIZATION LEVEL Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?
In the last editions of the newsletter, we discussed individual and team leadership gaps and how they can impact your success as a leader. It’s important to identify and either fix or compensate for them. These gaps can either be small cracks and fix with some ‘leadership caulk’ or large potholes which may require some ‘leadership patch.’ If left unattended, a small gap can grow into a huge one for the leader. Either way, it’s important for leaders at all levels to regularly evaluate and correct their leadership gaps.
Continue reading “What ORGANIZATION LEVEL Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?”What TEAM Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?
In the last edition of the newsletter, we discussed individual leadership gaps and how they can impact your success as a leader. It’s important to identify and either fix or compensate for them. These gaps can either be small and fix with some ‘leadership caulk’ or large which may require some ‘leadership patch.’ Either way, it’s important for leaders at all levels to regularly evaluate and correct their leadership gaps.
Continue reading “What TEAM Leadership Gaps Are You Bringing Into 2024?”What is the Leadership IMPACT Tool Used by the Elite Leadership Academy?
Learn about how we use our proprietary Leadership IMPACT Assessment to identify individual leadership gaps, teams leadership perception gaps and organization level gaps. When utilized as part of our Leadership Resources Management solution, it helps detect toxic leaders in an organization.
How Can Analytics Help to Identify Toxic Leaders?
Toxic leaders survive in organizations because they’re good at managing up. Therefore, you need a tool that assesses them by their peers, supervisor and direct reports. Analytics helps organizations identify toxic leaders because, if done properly, they are completely anonymous and data-driven. This eliminates potential retaliation that can occur with other types of assessments.
Why 360-Reviews Make it Difficult to Identify Toxic Leaders
Toxic leaders are difficult to find using typical 360-reviews because they are text-based which makes them not completely anonymous. This can lead to retaliation if the reviewer is completely truthful about the leader’s performance. That’s why we provide a quantitative tool to provide completely anonymous feedback to the leader in our LeadershipRMS 360 strategy.
What is Considered a Toxic Leader and How Are They Identified?
Toxic leaders are like weeds in a garden. If allowed to flourish, they will choke the productivity out of others around them.