Middle Managers Seeking Clarity and Support from Executive Leadership… But Only if you Want Them to Be the Best at What They Do
Middle managers have the toughest job. They serve many masters, manage up and down, and often times are asked to execute without having access to the vision and strategy they are asked to execute on. They are critical to the success of an organization. Not only do they drive strategy to completion, effective managers keep […]
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Game Film Reveals Opportunity for Stronger Leadership; Reflection on how Minnesota State – Mankato football coach reinstatement could have benefitted from different leadership play calls
At the risk of being an armchair quarterback (er…coach), I’d like to run through the game film of the recent reinstatement of the head football coach, Todd Hoffner at Minnesota State – Mankato. The value of reviewing game film is to see what plays were executed well so the team can repeat them, and what didn’t […]
LEVERAGE Your Emotional Leadership
I heard an interview recently with Jon Kabat-Zinn, Professor of Medicine Emeritus and founding director of the Stress Reduction Clinic and the Center for Mindfulness in Medicine, Health Care, and Society at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. During the interview, he described research that indicates that human beings under stress lose their capacity for […]
Strategic Planning – Not For The Faint Of Heart
At The Bailey Group, we just completed the first staff meeting in which the 2014 Strategic Plan was shared. This was the first of a series of conversations to engage consultants and staff in the evolution of our vision and the resulting strategies that will be put in place in the coming year to help […]
The One Thing That Can Make the Biggest Difference in 2014
Stop for a moment and think about when you’ve had your most successful moments. When you really get to the heart of what made it possible, what drove you to reaching the goal? You likely focused. You set your sights on one thing that really mattered, then set out to make it so. Want to […]
Friends and Family Plans are for Cell Phones; not Staffing
In the early stages of building a business, executives are challenged to staff the organization quickly and often on a limited budget. There is a need to build a team you can trust and get them up to speed fast. All of a sudden, people are coming out of the woodwork, offering to help. And […]