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
What If Everyone Had a Personal Coach at Work?
What’s better than a performance review? If you said a poke in the eye, you’d be right there with the vast majority of workers. Kris McGuigan … Read more
What’s a Mentor and Why Don’t More People Mentor?
The March (Cincinnati) HR Roundtable dipped its toes into a more personal side of professional development to discuss the topic of mentoring. There are … Read more
If You’re Privileged, Embrace It to Help Others
If you’re privileged and you know it, clap your hands. Is that the sound of one hand clapping? “Were all privileged in some way. And … Read more
It Takes Hustle to Make Wishes Happen
“The dream is free, but the hustle is sold separately.” As I read daily sometimes certain quotes have me stopping in my tracks. This was one of them. When … Read more
RIG Your Young Workers For Employment Success
Think about this for a moment: Creativity is one of the soft skills most desired by employers. Yet too often, when a young worker comes up with a creative … Read more
Coaching the James Bond Way
Remember what it was like to be busy in the year 2000? It was nothing compared with today’s overwhelmingly-connected-at-all-times kind of busy. Now we’ve … Read more
Are You Bike-Shedding Your Feedback?
Bike-shedding refers to the act of spending lots of time on unimportant details while leaving crucial matters unattended. The term traces back to 1955 … Read more