Better than half of newly appointed, first-time business leaders fail in their first two years, resulting in their removal from position, either voluntary or otherwise. I hesitate to wonder how many more are left to quietly and more slowly drown on their own. If new doctors failed at that same rate, hospitals might find it …
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Three Reasons You Should Have a Leadership Program
Why is the process of finding a leader–whether to backfill someone or to fill a new role–often treated as an isolated event rather than an ongoing process? With the cost per hire only rising, why do so few organizations have a process for identifying and cultivating leaders within their existing talent pool? Guest post by …
How Managers Can Improve Remote Employee Engagement
With the seismic shift to remote work, Employee Engagement, which some organizations may have felt they were getting a handle on, has reemerged as a major challenge. A recent report shows that 71% of managers feel employee engagement has a direct impact on the overall success of an organization. With this number in mind, leaders …
Workspace – Comments On The Next Normal
Bill Catlette • 7/12/20 • Memphis “We were ordinary people living ordinary lives” (Bee Gees, 1989),and along comes the Rona. No one knows with any certainty what the post-COVID workspace will be like, or for that matter, if there will even BE such a thing as “post-COVID”. Indeed, as some have suggested, it’s not about how …
What Is This Thing Called Employee Engagement?
Employee Engagement What is it? Why do I want it? How do I get it? What do companies like J.M. Smucker, General Mills, and Marriott Hotels know that seems to elude many of their competitors? What’s one thing that has contributed to each organization’s decades-long record of growth and profitability? The answer may lie in a paraphrase of an advertising slogan long used …
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Employee Engagement what is it? why do i want it? how do i get it? What do companies like J.M. Smucker, General Mills, and Marriott Hotels know that seems to elude many of their competitors? What’s one thing that has contributed to each organization’s decades-long record of growth and profitability? The answer may lie in …
Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk
Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk The Plain Truth About Employee Engagement and Your Bottom Line By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden This revised and expanded edition of the original Contented Cows Give Better Milk, offers a new business case, new companies, new research to make the point that creating a focused, engaged, and capably …
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Our Books Contented Cows STILL Give Better Milk The Plain Truth About Employee Engagement and Your Bottom Line By Bill Catlette and Richard Hadden This revised and expanded edition of the original Contented Cows Give Better Milk, offers a new business case, new companies, new research to make the point that creating a focused, engaged, …
Executive Coaching
Executive Coaching Unlike speaking or training, where the message is more group-directed, we also work one-on-one in an intensely personal way with the names on the back of the jersey. Leveraging our strength in leadership development, and backgrounds as seasoned managers we work with willing managers, executives and sponsoring organizations to accelerate the development of …
Bill Catlette
Bill Catlette MISSION: I help leaders and teams become their best selves by shrinking blindspots, re-skilling, optimizing strengths, focusing, reducing friction. STORY: Early stage leader @ ADP, FedEx; Entrepreneur. ROLES: Coach, Speaker, Author, Board, Contributor to Leadership and Talent conversations SKILLS: Coaching Leaders – M/F (global), Conference Keynotes (North America only), Team and Strategy Interventions BRAND: Talent …