by Beth Strathman | Dec 9, 2025 | emotional intelligence, culture, humility, leadership, leadership as self-development, leadership skills, psychological safety, psychological safety, systemic team coaching, team, team development, team leader, vulnerability
Ask any leader what their team needs to succeed and you’ll hear familiar themes: clarity, accountability, communication, alignment. All true. But underneath every one of those team capabilities sits a deeper, more human foundation: the emotional intelligence (EQ) of...
by Beth Strathman | Apr 29, 2025 | leadership, leadership skills
(The following is an updated post based on a blog entry I wrote in March 2011.) Introduction: Are You Avoiding the Hard Conversations? Have you ever found yourself tiptoeing around an underperforming employee, hoping the situation will improve on its own? Maybe...
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 | Aug 30, 2021 | adaptive leadership, analysis, decision-making, leadership, leadership skills, learning, management skills, purpose & mission, systems thinking, team, team environment
For over 400 years, western civilization has increased its use of analytical thinking and the scientific method to explain almost everything in the natural world. By using analysis (separating a whole into its component parts), our society has greatly expanded the...
by Beth Strathman | Mar 29, 2021 | decision-making, goal execution, identity, internal processes, leader, leadership, leadership skills, performance, team
Making decisions for yourself difficult. For teams, multiply the difficulty of decision-making even more! Not only do decision-making biases and pitfalls abound, but chances decrease of reaching a solid decision when the process used is found lacking. There are,...
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,...
