About Michael Holland

Michael Holland unravels the mysteries of leadership. Michael is a professional executive coach and trusted advisor to executives who seek to become better leaders and build cohesive teams. Michael’s wisdom and insight are the product of 30 plus years of leadership experience and an uncanny, natural ability to perceive the questions that need to be asked. The Missing Leader: One Man's Journey to Leading Well - A Leadership Fable -- is available on Amazon.com (http://amzn.to/2nsZzhK)

Being a Bobby Jones Type of Leader

By Michael Holland - Bobby Jones was a very honest man. Extremely honest. Tons and tons of integrity. He didn’t have to tell people he was honest or that he had integrity. Because he behaved in ways that revealed his integrity. Long story short, Bobby Jones was playing in a critical golf tournament.  [...]

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3 Ways to Convert Leadership Mistakes to Wisdom

by Michael Holland -  In 1994 I made a classic management mistake. It involved a very stressful job, a struggling team, and two bags of marshmallows. The short version of the story is that a consistently tardy team member to critical team meetings received a barrage of marshmallows when he arrived late, yet [...]

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The Curse of Knowledge in Your Delegation to Employees

By Michael Holland -   When a leader delegates they can picture very clearly what it is they want done.  So they believe that they are communicating clearly to their employee.  But there’s a villain of natural psychology that limits our capability to communicate clearly and that villain is the curse of knowledge*. The [...]

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Why Most Management Training Programs Don’t Work

By Michael Holland   Imagine a seasoned leader's answer to my question of have you been through a leadership training program in your career. . ."Sure, over my 20 year career,  I went to a management training program; and then another.  I went to a leadership development program that lasted a couple of days. I [...]

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temporary for missing leader book conversion

The Missing Leader   One Man’s Journey to Leading Well   A Leadership Fable     MICHAEL HOLLAND                                 Copyright © 2016 Bishop House Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved.   ISBN 978-0-9848893-7-2                 [...]

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By Robin Perry There are lots of reasons a performance review happens to an employee rather than with an employee leaving them to feel frustrated rather than motivated by the process.  One such reason is the performance review document.  A necessary tool to support the process in most companies, but as effective leaders know, not [...]

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temporary for leadwell book conversion

 - /b> – Sup ' "       #Leadwell A collection of leadership thoughts for thoughtful leaders.         Michael Holland                                     Copyright © 2013-2014 Bishop House Consulting, Inc. All rights reserved.   ISBN 978-0-9848893-5-8 [...]

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temporary for book conversion

  Learning Moments for Evolving Leaders Providing leaders and their colleagues with inspiration - or reminders - regarding the critical role leaders play in the lives of employees. Michael Holland   Leadership Learning Moments for the New & Maturing Leader Copyright © © 2013 by Bishop House Consulting, Inc. ISBN 978-0-9848893-3-4 (eBook) All rights reserved. [...]

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