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“To thrive in this chaotic new world, organizations need leaders with inner strength, character, and a moral compass.” This HBR article offers some great examples of leaders doing just that. Let us help you take the guess work out of finding these leaders and their potential.

This Harvard Business Review article offers some compelling evidence that two core skills (strategic thinking and timely decision making) and three additional attitudes and activities (embracing disruption, learning and being data driven, and prioritizing pace over perfection) make for the most successful growth and profitability leaders and companies. Our experience serving clients echo these findings. Finding the right leaders and enabling those existing leaders to learn effectively with data driven insights can be a game changer for small, growing and progressive businesses. We’d like to play a part in serving your team with these people insights. Give us a call if you want to explore how it works and the business benefits.

“AI is changing the future of work. There’s no denying that fact, but the technology is still just a tool requiring human-AI collaboration for its functionalities to be effective.” We agree. We’re seeing great bew efficiencies with AI. Analyzing vast amount of data, or enhancing the pre-screen hiring processes are two good examples. Still AI is not a magic bullet. Humans bring emotional intelligence, intuition, motivations, creative thinking and innovation. Want to go deeper into the human side of your people and their potential? We can help surface insights that are near impossible to see on the surface. Let’s talk.

“Leaders who focus on building both internal and external self-awareness, who seek honest feedback from loving critics, and who ask what instead of why can learn to see themselves more clearly — and reap the many rewards that increased self-knowledge delivers. And no matter how much progress we make, there’s always more to learn. That’s one of the things that makes the journey to self-awareness so exciting.” We’re fans of this research and this great article by HBR.

This article suggests that “the resistance to remote work might be less about productivity concerns and more about deeper organizational issues.” In a complexity-filled business world, let’s eliminate, or heavily reduce, people selection and growth decisions as an organizational issue.

CNBC thinks transformative leaders possess three essential qualities: contribution, transformational change, and inspiring leadership.” Do you agree? These are nicely stated broad categories. We also believe that what makes for exceptional leadership is often more finely tuned. Interested in knowing more? Let’s talk.

These 10 leadership lessons apply to any professional whether they are leading themselves, a team, or their business. Knowing one’s level of skill and capacity to apply these ideas at the right time can make a huge difference when they are needed. How confident are you in the level of skill maturity in your people?

“The data from Atlassian and Hubstaff paints a clear picture: the traditional office is not always the bastion of productivity it’s thought to be. As the business world evolves, so too must our conceptions of the work environment. Flexibility, rather than rigid adherence to traditional models, seems to be the key to unlocking higher productivity and job satisfaction in the modern workplace.” As the modern workplace evolves, so must our people. Even natural progressions come with the challenges of change. Do your people have the support they need to work their edges as their world of work evolves?

This article argues in favour of having a balanced set of both people and individual leaders. It suggests that there’s an increasing paradigm shift where subject matter experts are becoming increasingly pivotal. Having the right blend of leadership can be challenging. Knowing what and how to develop those leaders can be easier with the right insights and support.

Many of our clients are either in or are about to start the process of year-end reviews and goal setting. This article offers some suggested phrasing and reminders of how to frame those conversations. Or course there’s a bigger opportunity at hand in knowing where to focus you or your team members energy as it relates to growth and development. Unsure where to focus? It might be a great time to let us help you with some assessment revealing insights.