Leadership Perspectives

6 ways to delegate more effectively

In the management and leadership classes that I teach, I’ve proven time and again that even leaders just starting out understand the benefits of delegating, the consequences of failing to delegate, and even some of the reasons that they don’t delegate.  Yet the need to delegate more effectively comes up repeatedly on the list of […]

Six Ways to Making Learning Stick (or How to Get Your Money’s Worth from Developmental Training)

Developmental training is a process, not an event. What leaders do to support training initiatives will determine, more than anything else, whether learning is retained after the initial training event.  Unsupported, days spent in developmental training quickly turn into enjoyable boondoggles that are quickly forgotten. This week, I presented a proposal to train an organization’s […]