I am absolutely passionate about the Masterful Coaching 360 process. I have already waxed on in other blogs how the MC 360 process is specifically designed for executives, is based on 360 interviews versus “check the box,” and produces an alteration vs. an assessment.
Here I would like to focus on how I’ve used the [...]
How to win your board over so you don’t wind up in a hole that may be hard to get out of.
I previously wrote about George, a CEO who had brought me in to work with him and his board. If you are a new CEO, I would like to share his story so [...]
I wrote this blog earlier this year and am posting it again because it was in fact the impetis for my friend George to begin creating a high performance board.
The CEO of a Fortune 500 company was less than a year into the job. He had turned the company around 180 degrees, brought in [...]
The Number #1 Pain Point for Many CEOs Today is Their Board
This is the first of a new series of blog posts on coaching CEOs to create a high performance board. If things work out as planned, this might become an e book (or even a book). The idea resulted when a friend, George, [...]
The Questions We Ask Get to the Source of Leadership Behavior
Most 360 feedback instruments produce an assessment of people’s leadership behavior, provide people with the feedback and a few prescriptions for how they should change.
The 360 feedback process I have developed at Masterful Coaching focuses not just on their leadership [...]
I remember reading an article by Jeff Immelt on leadership development a couple of years ago. Immelt described how, when he was under the tutelage of Jack Welch, the legendary CEO, he was part of a team that was tasked with developing the GE corporate leadership competencies. Immelt described how his team spent months [...]
A few years ago, I was hired by the HRD of a Global 1000 to help with the talent development process for both their top executives and high potentials. I told them that the best approach was to put the individual in the middle of the process, not a list of academic leadership competencies.
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Having worked in emerging economies for most of my working life, in particular having witnessed the miraculous transition to democracy in South Africa in 1994, I have observed the renewal of an economy laid dormant after many years of isolation, disinvestment and negative growth, as well as the emergence of magnificent, talented people who [...]
It is astonishing how much time, effort, and money is spent on leadership programs that have no connection to performance.
The typical leadership coaching program is like a recipe from an HRD cookbook put together by PhDs in organizational psychology, whose only real world result was probably their thesis. It generally has everything in it [...]
The CEO of a Fortune 500 company was less than a year into the job. He had turned the company around 180 degrees, brought in a team of ‘A’ players, developed a game-changing strategy, cleaned up operations, and doubled the stock price. He and his team had spent the last week preparing for a board [...]
