Taking On a New Leadership Role
CHALLENGES FACE A LEADER PROMOTED FROM WITHIN -- HOW TO START Getting promoted or taking on the leadership role — especially the CEO role — from an internal promotion is an awesome achievement. In addition, it is usually a great thing for the culture because it helps...
Leadership Decision Making
TIME BOXING FOR BETTER TEAM MANAGEMENT For leaders of people, managing conversations, processes, and goals related to performance becomes more predictable, less random, more fact-based, less emotional, and easier to understand when talked about as time-bound...
An Operational Tool Becomes a Diagnotic
Once in a while, when I’m reading about leadership best practices, I notice the mention of tools that, at first, sound kind of mundane. For example, a leadership blogger might talk about agendas or scorecards or forms that track special projects, or a grid that gets...
The Leader And The Team: Growing Your People
How do you skill up your team? Why skill up your team? As the CEO Coach, you need to be very involved with the team, but you are not able to do all the heavy lifting. If you are not directly leading the marketing or the engineering efforts and have just enough...
Your Role as the Leader of Your Team
WHY YOU NEED TO INVEST TIME INTO THE TEAM DYNAMIC Some of my clients are working to figure out the CEO role as their organization is changing. Many of these leaders find themselves challenged with stepping into a new role OR a familiar role in a rapidly changing...
The Ethical Values and Behaviours of CEOs Play Crucial Role in Attracting New Talent
GUEST POST by Meena Andiappan, Madelynn Stackhouse, and Tunde Ogunfowora in The Conversation In today’s job market, where highly skilled workers are scarce and specialized skills are in high demand, employers are facing the challenge of filling job...
Independence: Not Enough To Lead Well
The Capricorn Leader working definition of leadership: Influencing others to take actions that produce positive results. You may or may not agree, as there are unlimited definitions to choose from. For this article, let's roll with it. Independence is critically...
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A C-Suite’s Guide to Creating a Healthy Company Culture
A healthy culture sounds like a good thing, but it really matters because cultivating a company culture drives positive business results. How does today’s hybrid workplace impact culture? The pandemic, as we all know, made remote work a more common thing. And, while a...
Spit It Out!
GUEST POST by John Howman from Allied Consuting Group My good friend, Tim Dodge, turned me on to a book called Smart Brevity by Jim VandeHei, Mike Allen and Roy Schwartz. It’s excellent and (as you’d expect) short! The authors are the founders of Axios and Politco,...