We’ve Been Teaching People the Wrong Thing About Careers
We’ve Been Teaching People the Wrong Thing About Careers Prefer to listen? Here's a audio version of this post. In the first post in this series, I shared what happened when I achieved my dream job and still felt lost. After I left that CEO role, people...
I Achieved My Dream Job. Then I Got Lost.
I Achieved My Dream Job. Then I Got Lost. By: Jessica Gendron For most of my career, I had one goal. To lead. At first, that looked like becoming a college or university president. Later, it evolved into running a company. Becoming a CEO. Chasing the Dream Job But not...
Good Leadership: Managing the Sunday Scaries
The Sunday Scaries Don’t Have to Be Scary: How Leaders Can Reset for a Better Week By: Patty Prosser This issue has come up a number of times with clients lately! They simply dread facing the week ahead. While this experience is common, it’s also meaningful. It...
Good Leadership: Maintaining Momentum During the Summer
How Leaders Maintain Momentum During the Summer By: Patty Prosser I know we are all happy to welcome the warmer weather and the myriad of summer activities that come with it. But for many business leaders, the summer months also bring additional challenges and...
Good Leadership: Keeping Trust with Purposeful Transparency
Why Leaders Can’t Always Be Fully Transparent — and How to Keep Trust Anyway By: Patty Prosser One of the issues frequently raised in coaching emerging leaders is trust. More specifically, many new leaders ask: Why can’t the organization just tell employees what’s...
Good Leadership: Why Great Leaders Need to Practice Transparency
The Leadership Advantage of Transparency By: Patty Prosser There is nothing more important in driving employee engagement and fostering a high-performance culture than trust in leadership. Transparency in how leaders share information and openly communicate is key to...
Good Leadership: Why Great Leaders Must First Learn to Follow
Why Leaders Need to Learn to Follow Before They Can Lead By: Patty Prosser Many new leaders are thrust into leadership roles before they are really ready - and they know it! Not only are they ill-prepared, but if they’ve never experienced good role models, many...
The Missing Link in Alumni Engagement: The College to Career Transition
The Missing Link in Alumni Engagement: The College to Career Transition Why Transitions Are the Real Risk to Engagement And the Opportunity We’re Missing By Jessica Gendron For years, conversations about engagement in fraternity and sorority life have focused on a...
Good Leadership: What Executive Presence Means Today
Redefining Executive Presence in Today’s Workplace By: Patty Prosser This is a topic that almost every client raises at one time or another — how to improve their Executive Presence. In nearly every case, the response is the same: Executive Presence is not a...
Humble Leadership: How to Be Both Humble and Effective as a Leader
Attention Leaders: You Can Be Both Humble and Effective By: Patty Prosser Several leaders have recently shared that they struggle to hold their team members accountable for results while balancing their natural style of wanting to lead with humility. My...