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Coaching Foundations: Getting Started with Executive Coaches (Part 1)
Note: This is the first of a three-part blog series exploring how to get started with executive coaching and set it up for success in your organization. My other blogs on this topic will focus on selecting the right coaches and how to be a good client. Executive...
Update Your Hiring Criteria in a Pandemic? Yes – Here’s Why
The COVID-19 pandemic ushered in near-record unemployment levels and nearly every business sector is still adjusting – so is this any time to be talking about fine-tuning your hiring process? It sure is – and the most strategic and aggressive organizations are gearing...
New LinkedIn Survey Bolsters the Case for Action Learning
LinkedIn is out with a new survey of Learning & Development professionals and learners – some 900 L&D pros and 3,000 learners – and I see important implications for learning effectiveness -- and, specifically, how action learning can drive it higher. The...
Leadership Agility in Uncertain Times
The idea of living in a VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) world is nothing new – but it’s possible that ours is now VUCA on steroids, which makes the concept of leadership agility important and timely. The VUCA acronym has been used for many years...
Racial Justice: Going Beyond Just Words
Cambria joins with people everywhere who are responding with outrage to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis – and the deaths of many other Black men and women that have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement. We share the shock and anger that has driven...
Listening to Help Heal Raw Emotions
Everyone at Cambria feels the deep range of emotions that have been on such obvious display across the country since the tragic death of George Floyd in Minneapolis – including shock, sadness, anger, frustration, and more. As a firm, we believe in the fundamental...
New CEO Survey Explores COVID-19 Business Challenges
Nearly all business activity is impacted by the current economic slowdown amid the COVID-19 pandemic but its a misreading to conclude that everything has ground to a halt, according to a new CEO survey. Take for instance this interesting fact: More than 250 new CEO’s...
COVID-19 Benefits: Some Positive Trends & How to Extend Them
While dealing with the disruptions and changes associated with the pandemic, I have been struck by some unexpected COVID-19 benefits that it has produced. I am also drawn to what they could mean for the future – if leaders look to leverage them. What do I mean by...
COVID-19 Crisis: Time for a Pandemic Self-Assessment
Mid-May is the two month mark since the start of the coronavirus shutdown and resulting economic crisis that has dramatically altered nearly every business sector. Though many of us would agree that it seems like much more than two months – perhaps at this point it’s...
What Makes a Resilient Leader?
With the spread of Covid-19 and the swift economic downturn, resilience now is among the most important qualities for leaders. One common definition for resilience is the ability to recover quickly from difficulty, failure, disappointment, and loss. That...
We are all teachers now – at home or virtually
I was talking to a client recently who has a PhD in economics and is a regular presenter at international conferences. And she was terrified of home schooling her twelve-year-old! She said that lecturing or even facilitating conferences wasn’t in the same league as...
Coping in Challenging Times
You are no doubt reading this from where you’re viewing a changed world these days – perhaps from your home, which we hope is well-stocked. You might be on the job somewhere because you’re in a profession that’s vital to the fight against Covid-19. If so, thank you so...