07 Sep Why Empowerment Initiatives Run Out of Gas
How many times have you told your managers to empower their people in order to improve engagement, accelerate innovation, or build a stronger succession pipeline? And how often...
Communication
03 Aug Bride of MBTI
Do you remember how the Frankenstein movies started with just Frankenstein, and then there was Bride of Frankenstein, Son of Frankenstein, and classics of cinema like Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster? Well, we’ve got our own sequel here at Selby Group because last month’s column about...
13 Jul So Many MBTI Questions, So Little Time
I’ve been inundated with questions about the MBTI and Majors PTI lately, and I’m happy to see so much interest in self-awareness and how to put self-awareness to good use as a leader. This month, we’re going to focus on three of the discussions which...
14 Jun Five Essential Tips for a Successful Leadership Transition
Posted at 13:39h in Business, Change Leadership, Communication, Management, Professional Development
Leadership transitions are key inflection points in any enterprise. A well-executed transition will influence everything from customer retention to your employees’ morale and confidence in you, so this is one internal process you want to get right. ...
04 May Is Now the Best Time or the Worst Time to Invest in Executive Coaching?
Executive coaching is a one-on-one process dedicated to the development of the leader. Its popularity has grown exponentially since I coached my first client in 1994. The pattern of...
06 Apr Do Your Managers’ Decisions Keep Landing Back on Your Desk?
Tom shook his head in frustration and asked me, “Why do I have to keep overruling their decisions? I thought the people closest to the customer were supposed to...
02 Mar What Does Gumby Have to Do With Leadership?
There’s been a trend lately toward business leaders beginning to promote and recruit more flexible leaders to serve in their organizations and be placed decisively in the succession plan. These flexible leaders have broader strategic and influence skills that apply across...
03 Feb How Your Scarf Makes You a Better Leader
You may be wondering if Traveling Light is suddenly becoming a fashion magazine, but in fact SCARF is an acronym I learned from Dov Pollack, Senior Learning Consultant at Hills Physicians Medical Group. It’s based primarily on brain research summarized in a paper by David...
06 Jan How to Put Your Resolution in Play Now
Resolutions are great, but only if we act on them. By this stage in your career, resolutions are at least 50% head game, if not 80% or more. Let’s borrow our tools, then, from the ultimate head game: The Olympics. Think about it. At this...
02 Dec Traveling Light’s Greatest Hits, or at Least Our Shortest Hits
In looking back at the early issues of Traveling Light, the biggest change I see is that I’ve shifted to writing many more articles that share very little strategy and instead deliver those down-in-the-weeds, here’s-the-technique, start-with-this-script, say-this-not-that tools and advice. Why? You tell me you...