The Brazen Leader

Musings on Leadership, Business, and Things that Make You Go Hmmmm

Weaknesses aren’t Kryptonite, they just aren’t strengths…

September 27, 2019 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

Not too long ago, I worked with a group of executives for a fast-growing client. Two things struck me as interesting, and somewhat of a paradox: First, they were all reasonably successful in their jobs (and their jobs were substantially the same, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Strategies, Goals, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Misc Business Topics, Performance

It’s Real Leadership We Need Today, Not “New” Leadership

August 26, 2019 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

“Leadership is dead! Long live leadership!” This should be our modern-day mantra, allowing for every fad, survey, or new statistic loudly proclaiming that leadership as we know it is “dead” and that something new should immediately follow … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Misc Business Topics

The times, they are a’changin’

July 30, 2019 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

Change is simple; just close your eyes, hold your breath, and wait. It happens. Effective change management, on the other hand, takes some skill. From my view of the world, 3 things are necessary for senior executives to successfully drive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Strategies, Change, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Misc Business Topics, Performance Tagged With: change, change leadership, executive coaching, leadership

Performance Appraisals: Pain in the ass, or panacea??

June 25, 2019 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

Oh, crap! Another performance review… How many times have we heard--or uttered ourselves--this common lament? I’m guessing “lots” is a fairly accurate response. The better answer, however, is “way too often.” The performance management process … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Misc Business Topics Tagged With: coaching, conflict, development, employee retention, engagement, executive coaching, high performer, leader development, leadership, management, performance appraisal, performance management, performance review

Needing Leaders… The “make” or “buy” decision…

May 29, 2019 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

So, do you grow your own leaders from within, or hire someone new with – presumably – the leadership skills you need are unable to find inside your organization?  What do you tell yourself to justify not developing those skills from within your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Strategies, Change, Human Resources, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Performance Tagged With: change leadership, change management, coach, coaching, development, executive coaching, leadership, leadership training, performance management, promotion, succession

A physicist, a preacher and an Iman walk into this bar…

April 20, 2019 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

Though that has all the makings of a great joke (appropriate apologies to those easily offended), I just wanted to highlight the diverse uses of today’s topic. The three characters mentioned above are the most frequent users–or at least, most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Planning, Business Strategies, Human Resources, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Performance

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