Are You the Best Kind of Corporate Outlier?

by Denise Green | achieving goals, Coaching, Communication, Developing Others, Employee Engagement, Leadership Comments | 0

In my years of experience working with Corporate leaders, I’ve developed a strong belief that companies gain the most return on their coaching investment when they focus resources on their top talent. You may refer to them as HIPOs (High Performers or High Potentials). I also like to think of them as Corporate Outliers of the best kind.

I absolutely love working with these people. They are so intrinsically motivated that, once they have clarity about where they need to make behavioral changes, they experience profound insights and growth.

So, how do you tell if you’re a Corporate Outlier?

Let me describe some incredible clients to you. See if you recognize yourself anywhere.

  • You’re often at least two steps ahead of others in anticipating problems and divining solutions.
  • Some people are intimidated by your quick thinking and abrupt communication style.
  • You’re unwilling to settle for ‘good enough’. You have high standards and are willing to invest time and energy in developing brilliant performance.
  • You‘re allergic to the status quo and recognize that reality is constantly changing. You believe that if you don’t adapt your business & your skills, your business (and you) will cease to be relevant.

“You’re either growing or dying—there’s no in-between.”

~Anthony Robbins

  • Sometimes others assume that you care more about results than people. What they may not realize is [Read more...]
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8 Ways to Build Loyalty in Trying Times

by BrillianceInc | Employee Engagement, Leadership, loyalty, Relationship & Trust Comments | 0

This is a guest post by Jeremy Kingsley, professional speaker, author, and the President of OneLife Leadership. You can find him at www.JeremyKingsley.com and on Twitter @Jeremy_Kingsley

Where’s the Loyalty?

We all know that times have changed. Businesses appear and disappear at a dizzying pace. So do the jobs they offer. People no longer expect to spend their working lives with the same company. While many might relish the freedoms that abound in this business 2.0 environment, both employers and employees pay a price for a lack of loyalty. Workers are naturally less happy on the job when they sense little or no loyalty from their employer. The negative impacts on productivity can be truly alarming:

• People expect to be continually under threat of layoff, so they keep their resumes permanently on the market, changing jobs without concern for anything save their own short-term advantage.

• Top level emphasis on quick, short-term returns, permeates the organization as a whole, leading to everyone focusing on what will give them the biggest, quickest return—even if that means elbowing colleagues out of the way, playing the dirty politics, or hyping resumes to leverage a quick move somewhere else that is paying a few bucks more.

• Loyalty to colleagues can turn into an us-versus-them attitude.

• People feel devalued and see their work as less and less worthwhile. This creates emotional and psychological stresses and problems that go beyond the workplace and may last for some time.

Even in the most challenging times, leaders can forge loyalty.

The 8 Principles for Forging Loyalty [Read more...]

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The Best Way to Avoid Mediocrity in Yourself, Your Team, or Your Child

by Denise Green | achieving goals, Building Teams, Career Satisfaction, Coaching, Developing Others, Employee Engagement, Leadership, Management, Personal Development, Strengths Comments | 1

We adults know a secret that we withhold from kids until they’ve taken 15 AP classes, passed their SATs and graduated from an amazing college with a degree in something really practical.

That secret is…most of us are only really good at one or two things. Beyond that, we’re good at some, mediocre at many, and really awful at quite a few. Furthermore, if you try to make a career out of anything that you’re not really good at, you will be miserable.

I am very lucky. As a kid, I pushed myself so hard that my parents rarely put pressure on me to excel at anything. They gave me the freedom to try and fail at lots of things and to move on to something else. For example, I lasted one graceless season in basketball, eight months with guitar lessons, and only two humbling days on the swim team. The only time my dad showed even mild resistance to my quitting was when I asked to opt out of calculus since it wasn’t required to graduate and I already had a full ride academic scholarship waiting for me. But no honor student had ever opted out of advanced math. Why the heck not? [Read more...]

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What’s Keeping You From Your Potential?

by Denise Green | Developing Others, Employee Engagement, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Optimal Results, Personal Development, Strengths

Products of Our Environment

If William Shakespeare had been born a generation earlier, he would have been a glover like his father.

Instead, he (and subsequently we), benefited by his being born during a creative boom under Queen Elizabeth I. He had easy access to books thanks to a culture of literacy formed out of the Reformation. Thanks to new laws and scholarships encouraging sons of tradesmen to attend universities (perchance to learn to write verse) he was able to get an education unlike his father. And thanks to a slackening of censorship rules, he was able to write just about anything he wanted. Moreover, he was surrounded by other talented playwrights whom he could learn and borrow from. It was a perfect storm for unleashing his talent.

Here’s the question that haunts me. [Read more...]

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