Expect to go backwards and you will go forward more quickly – a mindset to accelerate your growth and development. Imagine you have golfed using one grip for your entire life, and now you learn, after a lesson with a fancy golf pro, that to get to the next level you...

When it comes to improving our leadership skill, most of us go about creating and executing our performance plans and goals in secret. This turns out to be suboptimal because leadership is inherently social, and cannot be developed in isolation. Involving others in...

Performance management and compensation are challenging areas to get right. Many common practices seen in companies either go against the research or have mixed research supporting them. On top of that, many companies are unsatisfied with their current system. The evolution of performance management is based on a number of practices aimed to support employees and help them grow. This yields greater motivation, engagement, performance, growth, and enjoyment at work.

One-on-ones are a key communication practice to establish a strong and productive working relationship. Here are some of the principles and topics we share with our clients.

Growing leadership capacity unlocks major gains in organizational effectiveness. With so many different approaches to leadership development out there, we thought we would put together a set of what we have found to be the key elements of an effective leadership development process. We’ve found that an integrated model for change and transformation has the greatest impact.

Praise and recognition can have a powerful impact, but most teams don’t praise each other enough. Research on the ratio of praise to critical feedback suggests the highest performing teams give close to six comments of praise for every critical remark.

If you can listen to someone and repeat back everything they said, are you an excellent listener? Effective listening is about more than being a passive mirror—it’s about being a thought partner and actively supporting the other person.

Expect to go backwards and you will go forward more quickly – a mindset to accelerate your growth and development. Imagine you have golfed using one grip for your entire life, and now you learn, after a lesson with a fancy golf pro, that to get to the next level you...

When it comes to improving our leadership skill, most of us go about creating and executing our performance plans and goals in secret. This turns out to be suboptimal because leadership is inherently social, and cannot be developed in isolation. Involving others in...

Performance management and compensation are challenging areas to get right. Many common practices seen in companies either go against the research or have mixed research supporting them. On top of that, many companies are unsatisfied with their current system. The evolution of performance management is based on a number of practices aimed to support employees and help them grow. This yields greater motivation, engagement, performance, growth, and enjoyment at work.

One-on-ones are a key communication practice to establish a strong and productive working relationship. Here are some of the principles and topics we share with our clients.

Growing leadership capacity unlocks major gains in organizational effectiveness. With so many different approaches to leadership development out there, we thought we would put together a set of what we have found to be the key elements of an effective leadership development process. We’ve found that an integrated model for change and transformation has the greatest impact.

Praise and recognition can have a powerful impact, but most teams don’t praise each other enough. Research on the ratio of praise to critical feedback suggests the highest performing teams give close to six comments of praise for every critical remark.

If you can listen to someone and repeat back everything they said, are you an excellent listener? Effective listening is about more than being a passive mirror—it’s about being a thought partner and actively supporting the other person.