memphis • 9.4.20 In his excellent book, “What Got You Here Won’t Get You There”, author and executive coach extraordinaire, Marshall Goldsmith presents a list of twenty performance disruptors that,…
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Promote Team Building by Improving the Workplace
by K. Baker With more companies struggling to stay profitable, employers have increased their efforts to build stronger teams. While a capable team isn’t made overnight, it can be created…
Unjobbed
Bill Catlette 8/7/20 • memphis Bored, Scared, Angry In 2+ decades as a coach and advisor to business leaders, the very worst workplace situations I’ve encountered have almost always…
Leaders... Dancing in the Dark?
by Bill Catlette memphis • 7/26/20 In his 1984 Grammy Award winning song, Dancing in the Dark, a slightly randy Bruce Springsteen bemoans a grinding, dreary daily existence without much…
Two Tips For Better Messaging
by Bill Catlette • 7/23/20 • Memphis Check For Understanding Too often, as busy leaders, we get a little out over our skis in communicating with our teammates, and sometimes…
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…
Coaching From a Distance
With the sudden, COVID-inspired shift to WFH, one topic that has come to the fore is productivity. How do we get it? How can we possibly verify and measure it…
A Helping Hand for Leaders
memphis, 04.06.20 Life is coming at us pretty hard and fast right now. It’s an especially lonely time for business leaders, who shoulder responsibility for people, process, resource, results. When…
Employee Engagement: Two Reasons Why ‘Getting Sticky’ Matters
(This piece generally represents the text of a letter sent to some of our firm’s leadership coaching clients this week.) Too often I see HR professionals and the organizations they…
Preventing the Next Uber Dumpster Fire
Nobody in their right mind flies an aircraft, rewires their home, performs surgery, goes skydiving, or engages in many other activities without the benefit of training and/or certification. And if…