Catching Great Performances
It is every leader’s dream to have an entire team of high performers who have no place to go but up. However before that is even plausible, you have to determine who possesses the necessary criteria to be great. One or two might stand out, but what about the...
Do Your Team Members Not Trust You-20 Ways to Tell
Trust is one of three things—along with credibility and respect—that need to be established by leaders for teams to be successful. How can you (as the leader) tell if your team members are losing faith in you? People have defined trust in many ways. The Oxford English...
How Can You Tell If Employees Are Telling the Truth?
Creating a work environment where leaders and employees feel comfortable and safe telling the truth is a critical component to organizational success. But, in reality, many employees don’t tell the truth to their leaders—out of fear, out of politeness—and...
Behavioral Interviewing: It’s Not For The Untrained
In a recent post on behavioral interviewing, I discussed how to purposefully create and develop a system of questions when using behavioral interviewing to choose a candidate for a position. But handing over a set of questions to an untrained manager is like handing...
Internal Mobility of Talent
I want to shout out “STOP THE MADNESS”! Leaders who make the decision to promote a single contributor to a managerial position often are disappointed in the results, yet many don’t learn from their mistakes. So as a leader, you just had a position...
Beth Armknecht Miller’s passion for learning and dedication to bringing out the best in others are strands woven throughout her career and are found in her work with Executive Velocity, a top talent and leadership development advisory firm.