Having a sponsor at work can accelerate your career, but not everyone has someone who will go to the mat for them. While having a sponsor pays a premium, … Read more
The Role of Reinforcement in Executive Coaching
When hiring a coach for executives, it’s important to understand how he or she defines a successful engagement. Some coaches view the process as striving … Read more
Managers As Coaches Is No Longer Optional
These days we keep hearing about the disengaged workforce and the struggle to retain talent. Coupled with that, millennials are a growing segment of … Read more
What Do You Really Know About How Training Is Being Done?
Let’s look at two employees and compare their career paths. Both are the same age, both college graduates, both recent hires with an aircraft company. … Read more
6 Key Traits of Successful Mentors
If you have to be sold on mentoring, skip this video and read this article instead “The Huge Importance of Mentors in Developing Top Talent.” … Read more
What It Takes to Teach Your Old School Managers New Tricks
Can traditional managers learn new ways to lead? Us humans are typically heavily committed to our habits – even our bad habits. When presented with … Read more
Mentoring Programs Take Work to Start, But the Payoff Is Great
Successful people often thank mentors when recognized with an award or congratulated on an accomplishment. Mentors guide us with knowledge and advice to … Read more
Change Happens One Person At a Time
Hanlon’s Paradox states that the stress caused by change reduces our ability to cope with change. At the very moment we need to be open to new ideas and … Read more
A Coaching Culture Makes an Organization More Adaptable to Change
Like most companies, leaders at the managed healthcare provider CareSource have had to navigate through critical changes. First, it was a decade of … Read more
Stop Making Excuses and Start Coaching
Managers are expected to spend about one-third of their day developing employees, but they actually spend only 9% of their time to development. The problem … Read more
Be the Coach Your Company Needs
I read an article in The New Yorker, probably the best article I’ve read in a while, on the importance of “Coaching” by Atul Gawande. Atul is a writer and … Read more
Successful 360 Feedback Takes Coaching and Goals
Feedback is a vital part of performance, growth, and development. Understanding ourselves and how we interact with others helps us to understand the impact … Read more
How to Coach Employees Through a Failure
How can you mentor employees and turn a failure into success? There’s no magic switch to flip to transform poor workers into employees of the month. But … Read more
4 Steps to Improving the Quality of Your Coaching
Nothing elevates performance more than coaching. Over the past decade, through studying more than 100,000 coaching interactions, we have found that … Read more
Leaders Live In a Bubble You May Just Have to Prick
Leaders live in bubbles. If your childhood summers were anything like mine, you spent a good deal of time blowing thousands of soapy bubbles through a … Read more
How To Design And Deliver Training That Matters
As more organizations focus on return on investment (ROI), implementing an effective learning and development (L&D) strategy to aid engagement and … Read more
Why Are Latinos Leaving Corporate America?
Latinos in America are currently facing huge challenges. Latino children have been separated from their parents at the border and anti-Latino speech has … Read more
Every Manager Should Have a Leadership Coach
Editor’s Note: It’s an annual tradition for TLNT to count down the most popular posts of the previous 12 months. We’re reposting each of the top 30 … Read more
Here’s What You Need to Attract and Keep Your Young Talent
Are you having trouble recruiting and retaining young talent? Recruitment has been an ongoing concern for human resources for a number of years, … Read more
American Idol’s Lesson In Mentorship
ABC’s American Idol may be a strange place to find an example of perfect mentorship, but stay with me here. Rachel Platten, a world class singer, … Read more