Archive for June 2021

I was working with a company recently and wanted to help them update their employee review process to better reflect the kinds of things we focus on in Dare To Lead™.  I was surprised to find so many HR and executive and leadership coaching sites still using the old fashioned annual checklist of qualities and tasks…

Yup, another week of Patrick Lencioni.  Thankfully, no fables!  This week we’ll consider the topic of: organizational health.  At it’s core, organizational health is about integrity, but not in the ethical or moral way that integrity is defined so often… An organization has integrity –is healthy—when it is whole, consistent, and complete… when its management,…

This week, we focus on the remaining three dysfunctions of a team, based on Patrick Lencioni’s seminal work: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (2002).  Please see the Team Coaching 2 blog for team dysfunctions one and two.  Again, we’ll focus on a positive spin.  What follows is a summary of pages 207 – 218. Dysfunction…

There seems to be a trend in business and leadership development books to provide information through fables and stories.  I get that research supports the advantages, in terms of engagement and understanding, of storytelling.  But I tend to prefer a more straight forward approach.  If I want a great stories, I’ve got Dickens, Austen, Tolkien…