The Brazen Leader

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

Some Coaching Advice — Gratis

July 27, 2017 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

I coach several individuals; most at a fairly senior level, some in mid-management. Some are remedial efforts; in other words, we're trying to get an otherwise-valuable employee to step it up a bit in performance. These are challenging, but it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Strategies, Change, Goals, Human Resources, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Performance Tagged With: coach, coaching, executive coach

Leadership and Retention: Keeping top performers

July 21, 2017 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

It's not just the money! We are staring down the barrel of impending poaching opportunities at a time when our most valuable employees are simply “tired.” What to do? 1. Anybody who tells you money doesn’t matter... they’ll lie about other … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Strategies, Change, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Misc Business Topics, Performance Tagged With: attrition, high performer, high potential, hipo, retention, succession

Performance Management Simplified

July 20, 2017 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

It's not about the paper... Someone recently asked me why the Performance Management process seems so painful in many organizations. They further questioned how lower-level managers could possibly implement effective performance management if the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Strategies, Human Resources, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Misc Business Topics, Performance Tagged With: performance appraisal, performance management, performance review

Success According to Karl

July 17, 2017 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

The broader impact of performance management... The ability to make good decisions regarding people represents one of the last reliable sources of competitive advantage, since very few organizations are any good at it." -- Peter Drucker Two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Change, Human Resources, Leadership, Management, Performance Tagged With: performance management

“Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” Does Leadership Development

July 12, 2017 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

Leadership development that works This is always an interesting and pertinent topic to me, as the beginning stages - creation, if you will - of leadership development efforts are where success/failure is determined. Implementation is simple, as is … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Business Planning, Human Resources, Leadership, leadership development, Management, Performance Tagged With: coaching, leader development, leadership training

Devil’s Advocate — Saint or sinner??

July 10, 2017 By D. Kevin Berchelmann Leave a Comment

  "Yes" men, "No" men, or some happy medium ("men" used for convenience, and is in no way gender-specific)?? Do we want our closest and/or brightest to agree with us merely because it was our idea? Or are we actively seeking constructive, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Change, Leadership, Management, Performance Tagged With: conflict

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