The Canary in the Coal Mine (Workplace): Listening to Early Warning Signs in Culture and Performance In the early days of mining, workers carried small canaries deep into the tunnels—not for company, but for survival. The canary’s fragile lungs were exquisitely sensitive to toxic gases like carbon monoxide. If the bird grew silent or fell […]
TOLERANCE FOR UNCERTAINTY AND AMBIGUITY – A CRITICAL SKILL SET FOR LEADERSHIP Tolerance is the willingness or ability to allow, endure, and accept a situation, circumstance, or happening. Uncertainty is the state or feeling of apprehensive, doubtful, risky, unpredictable, unreliable, or unsure. Ambiguity is the lack of clarity, consistency, understanding, and certainty. Tolerance for uncertainty
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Cognitive Communication: Communicating to Maximize Excellence and Business Results The ability to effectively communicate, and avoid miscommunications, is a key competency for leadership. We know from recent research and studies that productive communications can positively impact engagement, and the reality in the majority of organizations is that effective and productive communications do not happen often
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Influencing Through Purposeful Value Alignment Values-based decision making is key to organizational effectiveness, talent optimization, effective execution of strategy and the achievement of collective, impactful results. It enhances a leader’s ability, through higher cognition, to influence and motivate their leaders and teams through purposeful alignment of values that galvanize competency and skills and maximize excellence.
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Maximize Excellence!© Podcast February 2, 2022, 12:00 PM EST Guest: Gerry Komlofske Topic: The Future of Technology Gerry will be talking about KEY LEADER-FOLLOWER RELATIONSHIP INSIGHTS for CONSCIOUS LEADERS, specifically: HISTORY OF LEADERSHIP LOWEST COMMON DENOMINATOR – DEPENDENT DUALITIES THEORY MODELS OF SELF AWARENESS HOW TECH WILL IMPACT LEADERSHIP Gerry is a Technology Executive with
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In most small businesses, managers usually meet one-on-one with team members at least monthly; some are even lucky enough to work directly with their team members every day. However, if a business grows rapidly, managers may find themselves juggling too many priorities to meet with each teammate on a regular basis. When a company starts
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The State of Talent Management in Dental Practices Author: Lynn Whitesell, Managing Partner, Harris Whitesell Consulting LLC Problem: Current state is minimal to basic. Don’t know what you don’t know… The current state of talent management in most dental practices today is minimal. A recent article on the top 20 industry trends for dental practice
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If you’ve noticed that no matter how hard you try to build diverse professional connections, your network still seems slanted toward others like you, you’re not alone. It’s not uncommon for a person’s professional network to be made up mostly of people close to their own age, demographic, field and level of education even after
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GRATITUDE | APPRECIATION | THANKFULNESS | PRAISE | RECOGNITION | GRACE | TRIBUTE | HONOR Annually on September 21 people around the world celebrate GRATITUDE and APPRECIATION. This day allows people and organizations to take a moment to recognize and honor excellence in talent, attitude, and productivity. An extraordinary day to go above and beyond
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When it comes to gathering input and hearing the voices of their team members, executives sometimes overlook junior employees, perhaps assuming that new staff members don’t yet understand the corporate culture well enough to offer valid suggestions for change. This can make getting your voice heard as a junior employee quite a challenge. As a
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Unconscious bias isn’t something a business can eradicate overnight by passing a mandate. Even after outlining the steps that should be taken to improve the hiring process and uncover more diverse talent, implicit bias on the part of recruiters, human resources professionals and managers may derail those efforts, preventing the company from finding the best
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A rallying call is like the Mingun Bell in Burma or a lightning rod that strikes and lights an organic fire. When rung, or the impact of the strike informs, it kickstarts momentum, fuels inspiration and motivation and strengthens cohesiveness for vision, values and actions to thrive in people, teams and organizations. Rallying calls make
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