Grow Your Employees without that Promotion
I can’t count how many times I have been called into coach a leader who has recently been promoted yet was struggling in the new role because they weren’t developed and prepared to take on the position successfully. My friends at GetLight House looked at promotions...
The Difficult Employee Puzzle
Difficult employees, we’ve all had to deal with them in our lives. And for many of us, we’ve had the unenviable task of managing a few of them as well. Sometimes our efforts paid off while other times it didn’t. What was it that you did to manage the situation that...
Your Emotional Intelligence a Psychological Safety
As employers start to move employees back into the workplace, they will need to make employees feel safe and secure, not only physically but emotionally. The term psychological safety has become a popular term recently, but what does it actually mean? It is “a...
Minimizing Your Recruiting Bias
We all have bias, conscious and unconscious. The unconscious biases we have are the ones that can really get us into trouble when we are hiring and building our team. A recent article in Forbes by Dr Pragya Agarwal outlines methods to minimize your unconscious bias...
The Leader as a Coach
I have been catching up on my reading over the past few weeks, and I was excited to find an article from Harvard Business Review, The Leader as a Coach. It supports much of what I’ve been coaching others over the past decade. Ask questions when employees come to you...
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.