Category Archives: Employee Engagement

I coached a CEO who believed his team trusted him completely. His reasoning was simple: nobody ever challenged him. Meetings ran smoothly. Decisions moved quickly. He took the absence of pushback as proof that everyone…

We were conducting an employee survey for a company with multiple locations when something caught our attention. One location’s scores were significantly lower than those at every other site, particularly in the leadership section. The…

We get called in for two reasons when a leader has a high need to be liked. Either the department is not meeting its goals, or the top performers are leaving. Sometimes both are happening…

Most leaders believe their team trusts them. Most of them are at least partially right. That’s not an indictment. It’s a structural reality. As leaders rise, the feedback they receive gets filtered. People stop saying…

The leaders most at risk of burning out in your organization are not the ones who are struggling. They are the ones who are succeeding. Your strongest leaders are the ones absorbing the most pressure….

There is a moment early in almost every coaching engagement that tells me a great deal about where things are headed. The leader across from me begins describing the situation that brought them there, and…

 A CEO stopped mid-sentence during one of our consulting sessions. “I don’t understand,” she said. “We’ve explained the changes. We’ve shown them the data. We’ve answered their questions. Why are they still resisting?” We hear…

We worked with a CEO who was convinced his team trusted him. How did he know? Because they never pushed back. No one challenged his decisions. No one questioned his direction. He read their silence…

We were brought in to coach a director who had been with his organization for most of his career. He had grown up there, knew the systems inside and out, and had built a department…