Year-End Self Assessment Tool
Evaluate your own performance in 2012 before you move into 2013. The following downloadable assessment tool will help you reflect on the year, and can be used for you as an individual, team, or company. It’s easy to forget all you’ve accomplished and all you’ve had to overcome so take time to reflect back over the year, and perhaps review your calendar or journal before completing the survey. Financial results are a key measure of success for any business or non-profit (no money, no...
Read MorePotentiation – building on strengths
What is potentiation? It’s a combination of things that together are more powerful. I use the term to define a process of building on your strengths for even greater success. Think caffeine with aspirin making aspirin more potent. According to the dictionary, potentiation is defined as “to make more effective or active, or to augment the activity of (as with a chemical or drug) synergistically.” Start with strengths: Potentiation helps you explore what your strengths are, either as an...
Read MoreMeasuring Quality Leads to Results
Measuring Quality Dr. Amy Schumacher of Southcentral Foundation Huge congratulations to everyone at Southcentral Foundation, the organization I so enjoyed working with through the Gestalt International Study Center this past year in Anchorage Alaska. They are one of four recipients of the the 2011 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, the nation’s highest Presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improvement and visionary leadership. Take a minute to look...
Read MoreIs leadership an innate quality or can it be taught?
Can leadership be taught or are you born with it, (or not)? TWO times in the last two weeks I was asked this question by high level leaders – a CEO of a large healthcare system, and a CFO of a medical device start-up. Both asked it as a challenge, themselves believing that you are either a good leader or you aren’t, so the effort must go into the selection process, not the development process. Don’t get caught in this trap! There is no question in my mind that leadership is both...
Read MoreNot Ready to be King
This week my husband and I saw the movie The King’s Speech, the story of King George VI’s struggle with a stammer as he journeys through the circumstances that cause his ascension to the throne. So many of us at various points in our lives are thrust into a situation that requires us to assume a responsibility for which we do not feel ready, or adequate. Sometimes the gap between role and capacity is even of our making, when we apply for a position or title that we know is a stretch. ...
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