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5 Questions You MUST Ask Your Young Professionals if You Want to Engage Them

July 6, 2020 Organizational Effectiveness Personal Effectiveness Questions Young Professionals
What’s the quality of your conversations with your young professionals? More specifically, what questions are you asking them? In my new book Stand Out!, I share that young professionals today are the leaders of tomorrow. The reason is a matter of simple mathematics. When the Baby Boomers retire, there won’t…

What Coaching Leaders Do Differently

September 15, 2014 Coaching Influence Leadership Personal Effectiveness Questions
“Coaching” has been trending corporate buzzword in organizational leadership for well over a decade. We’re all familiar with athletics coaches. But when someone asks us to coach someone to learn a new skill or solve problem, it’s usually in a professional work context. What do coaches actually do – or…

How to Ask Great Questions

August 18, 2014 Coaching Communication Influence Leadership Learning Personal Effectiveness Questions
This post is excerpted from Nathan’s book Ignite Your Leadership Expertise. What if I told you you don’t need to have a solution for every single problem that comes your way in order to be a competent and mature leader? That’s exactly what I’m about to propose. Hopefully it’s as…

How Do You Diagnose an Organization?

October 14, 2013 Culture Human Resources Influence Leadership Organizational Effectiveness Questions Strategic Thinking
You’ve just been assigned to fix a problem or design a solution for an organization, department or team. Maybe you’ve been brought in as a consultant or joined a cross-functional task force. Regardless, management wants results. Where do you start? Just like in medicine, the last thing a change practitioner…

The Value of Asking “Why?”

December 17, 2012 Inspiration Leadership Organizational Effectiveness Personal Effectiveness Questions
Why? It’s one of my all-time favorite questions. I’m told I asked my parents, “why?” over and over again as a kid and apparently I’ve never grown out of it. There’s no quicker way to cut to the heart of what’s most important, which is one of the greatest responsibilities…
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