Author: Dennis E. Gilbert -- Mentoring seems to make its way up and down the popularity chart. Chances are good that mentoring helps, as long as it is the right mentor. How do you find the right mentor? Mentoring is typically connected to the idea of pairing people together, one...
Coaching
Authors: Ben Dattner and Elizabeth Wood -- In the traditional view of executive coaching, an executive, with her boss’s participation, takes personality assessments, receives 360-degree feedback, and creates and implements a development plan designed to address performance gaps, optimize her contribution, and prepare her for new responsibilities. This approach is based on the fundamental belief that enhancing performance in a role as currently structured, is the best way ahead. However, in some...
Author: Denise Patrick -- We all know what it's like to try and prepare for a difficult conversation. For quite a few of us, we end up either trying to avoid the conversation, or we end up defaulting to a tactic that may not yield the results we seek. When...