Here’s a mentoring tip, borrowed from the world of tennis. In tennis, the mantra is that if you want to get better, you should play against people a little better than you. (Not a lot better, because you get smoked 6-0 and that’s just demotivating.) The reason playing against people a little better than you […]
Read MoreDid you know that, in addition to being National Blood Donor Month, January is also National Mentoring Month? For those of you already in the know, that’s awesome. For everyone else, consider yourself warned. Mentoring is making a comeback in leadership development, and for good reason. Jumping on the bandwagon could change your professional life […]
Read MoreOnce in a while, someone in a leadership development workshop says something that seems to reveal a fundamental truth, a perspective that greatly illuminates the topic at hand and greatly raises awareness. This happened recently when I was working with a group of leaders in the Midwest. We were talking about the admittedly somewhat abstract […]
Read MoreFor years now Federal human capital and human resources practitioners have been told human resources horror stories about the retirement wave: “Nobody go into the barn, the boomers are all in there retiring!” In most Federal organizations, however, it’s just not happening. We know it’s coming, but more like a herd of “walkers” way off […]
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