Executive Development



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    In your career, you need to stand out from the crowd. You need to make your ideas memorable and persuasive. Making your ideas "sticky" can help you in many forums, whether it is communicating more effectively with your team, other managers or with prospective business partners. Read on to find out what will make your communication sticky.


    Are you putting emotional intelligence to work?  It is an increasingly important ability that can be utilized in times of transition or stress, in order to lead an organization through a difficult time.  At times, talent and experience are not enough to be a successful leader; now we understand that emotional intelligence has a vital role in people who become successful.

    Decision making should be second nature by now, right?  You’ve had years of practice, and yet, there are some ‘Yield’ signs that we all miss sometimes along the way.  Here are a couple of the glaring decision crossroads to look out for.

    Are you a Producer?  If you are reading the Performance Report, then you probably are.  Managers or executives have already proven that they are producers.  But if you are a producer who can delegate effectively, then your accomplishments far exceed your efforts, because those you foster will also be producers for you, exponentially increasing your output.  

    Are times when no matter how much it deliberates, the executive team hits a decision making stalemate, and it is up so the CEO to be a tie-breaker.This is a difficult position to be in, because it results in the CEO being the killjoy of everyone’s ideas.Harvard Business Review calls this the dictator by default syndrome.

    How can teams be expected to reach a collective decision based on individual preferences, anyway?


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