by Michael Holland As my friend Jerry says, you can have a bad day or bad month or even a bad year. But it’s pretty hard to have a bad 5 years. What is important in life is your trend line. I submit you take a similar approach to your leadership capability. Every one of [...]
by Michael Holland Great managers execute well and help their teams to deliver on the organization’s priorities. Hard working employees will deliver for great managers. Great leaders have heart and create passion for a cause. Passionate employees will give all they have to assure success of a cause. Find your heart and evolve [...]
by Michael Holland How do you respond to the phrase, “tell me about yourself?” Common answers include your job title, your scope of responsibility, the magnitude of power you yield and maybe a small piece of data on your personal life. Interestingly, as we at look how leaders typically spend their days, it [...]
by Michael Holland Remember the movie, What Women Want with Mel Gibson? The actor plays a chauvinistic executive who gains an ability to hear what women are actually thinking. He’s amazed, intrigued, and ultimately horrified at what women are really thinking about him. How powerful would you find the ability to hear what [...]
By Michael Holland The best approach in building a talent or leadership pipeline is to assess the potential of leaders against the level of sustained performance of them. It is critical that both perspectives of the leader are ascertained. The sustainability of performance at exceptional levels creates the pathway for a leader with potential [...]
by Michael Holland I recently read this story about a school teacher. . . a kindergarten teacher who at the end of an exasperating day had to put boots on all 31 of her students before she sent them out in the snow. As she struggled to lace up the last boot on the foot [...]
By Michael Holland Leverage that driving or flying time this holiday with a good audio book! Here are some books I've recently listened to on my iPhone. Get Motivated. . . .1 hour, 4 minutes . . . What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast by Laura Vanderkam. A great, quick [...]
by Michael Holland Crucible: A place or occasion of severe test or trial. Marine Corp recruits culminate their boot camp training with “The Crucible”, a 54 hour strenuous training exercise meant to simulate typical combat situations wherein recruits apply everything they’ve learned to that point in their training. The “exercise” includes 48 miles of [...]
by Michael Holland Take a strategic leadership approach to coaching and mentoring your employees. Determine one or two key performance areas for each employee. Choose performance areas which will provide the employee an opportunity to grow, explore or enhance talents. With each key area, determine how you will plant and water a seed to help [...]
by Michael Holland One of the easiest and most impactful kinds of feedback to give is positive feedback. It motivates and builds commitment and do people really ever get tired of hearing they've done a good job? The first step - and this is crucial - is to notice what's gone well. Next, follow these [...]
