by Beth Strathman | Oct 4, 2024 | authentic, awareness, behavior, beliefs, leader, leadership, leadership training, mindset, professional development plan, self-awareness
What’s more important to you — the status you get from being in a leadership position or the responsibility to serve others? The quality of your leadership is shaped by whether you emphasize the status and privilege that you get from being in a leadership position...
by Beth Strathman | Aug 26, 2024 | adaptive leadership, awareness, behavior, corporate culture, leadership, leadership skills, psychological safety, women in leadership
In today’s business world, your ability to access your empathy and emotional intelligence is a must. Increasingly, the modern workplace has changed, morphing from a bastion of masculine qualities and values to giving greater value to these and other feminine...
by Beth Strathman | Feb 22, 2021 | adaptive leadership, assumptions, awareness, behavior, change, collaboration, communication, dialogue, influence, internal processes, leadership, learning, listening, psychological safety, psychological safety, self-awareness, team
Do you congratulate yourself on the fact that your team never argues or even disagrees with each other? Hold on. That might not be a good thing. Results from a study of 55 executives teams by consulting firm RHR International found that while internal cohesion and...
by Beth Strathman | Dec 21, 2020 | adaptive leadership, alignment, assumptions, behavior, beliefs, change, collaboration, communication, corporate culture, credibility, focus and priorities, goal execution, leadership, leadership skills, strategic planning, strategy, success, tactics, values
A recent survey found that one of the top frustrations of CEOs is aligning strategy and people. This was interesting to me because of the amount of research and experience available to companies about strategy, change management, employee engagement, etc. Moreover,...
by Beth Strathman | Oct 27, 2020 | adaptive leadership, alignment, appreciation, behavior, collaboration, ego, executive, external processes, failure, fallibility, focus and priorities, goal execution, humility, internal processes, leadership, leadership skills, learning, mindset, performance, professional development plan, psychological safety, psychological safety, purpose, purpose & mission, self-awareness, success, team, team environment, team leader, vulnerability
In the U.S., most people are taught from an early age to be individually competent and independent. It’s no wonder that most of your employees have some difficulty in knowing how to work effectively within a team. Here are five things you can do to forge a collective...
by Beth Strathman | Jul 22, 2020 | adaptive leadership, assumptions, behavior, business, collaboration, corporate culture, failure, goal execution, leader, leadership, leadership skills, learning, management skills, micromanaging, performance, psychological safety, psychological safety, purpose & mission, success, team, team environment, trust
Failure happens when a desired or expected outcome doesn’t materialize. It can happen whether or not there was something you could have done about it, too. Whether the mistake is a small glitch or a major flop, failure often weighs heavily on you personally because...
