Join The Ken Blanchard Companies for a special complimentary webinar and online chat beginning today at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (12:00 noon Eastern). Best-selling author and consultant Dr. Vicki Halsey will be sharing strategies for managers looking to improve their feedback and listening skills. The webinar is free and seats are still available if you…
Good listening and feedback skills are essential to any manager’s success—but they are in short supply these days, according to Dr. Vicki Halsey of The Ken Blanchard Companies. With today’s managers struggling to find the time required to get their own jobs done, it’s easy to move listening and providing feedback to the back burner.…
When people don’t trust their leaders, they don’t come toward something; they pull back and withdraw instead. They doubt rather than cooperate. According to Dr. Pat Zigarmi, Founding Associate of The Ken Blanchard Companies, and Randy Conley, the Trust Practice Leader at Blanchard, a self-centered, “What’s in it for me” attitude robs an organization of…
In the June 2010 issue of Ignite, Madeleine Homan Blanchard discusses how Leadership Strengths Are a Double-Edged Sword. She goes on to explain that positive characteristics such as optimism, confidence, and intelligence can turn into delusion, arrogance, and unhealthy competitiveness if left unchecked. In her work with highly successful executives, this crossover from strengths to…
Trust is a critical link that helps people work better together, listen to one another, and build effective relationships. Yet many people are unaware of the actions that influence trust. On May 20, organizational change expert Cindy Olmstead will be conducting a webinar to increase awareness and sensitivity for the behaviors which erode trust and share…
Trust has taken a hit lately in all facets of our life. Chalk it up to the combined effects of the economic meltdown, financial mismanagement, and an increasing sense that, in business at least, everyone seems to be in it only for themselves. The result has been dwindling levels of trust in organizations to a…
Join The Ken Blanchard Companies for a special complimentary webinar and online chat beginning today at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (12:00 noon Eastern). Senior Consulting Partner Carmela Southers will be speaking on the topic of Leading In A Virtual World. The webinar is free and seats are still available if you would like to join…
Join The Ken Blanchard Companies for a special complimentary webinar and online chat beginning today at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (12:00 noon Eastern). Senior Consulting Partners Chris Edmonds and Bob Glaser will be speaking on the topic of Creating a High Performing, Values-Aligned Culture. The webinar is free and seats are still available if you…
Join Ken Blanchard for a special complimentary webinar and online chat beginning today at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (12:00 noon Eastern). Dr. Blanchard will be speaking on the topic of From Recovery to Prosperity: The Power of Vision and Leadership. The webinar is free and seats are still available if you would like to join over 1,500 people expected to…
Where is your organization headed in 2010? What is your simple, meaningful vision for the future? In an article for the January 2010 issue of Ignite!, Setting a Leadership Point of View for Yourself and Your Organization, Ken Blanchard reminds leaders that, “Without a compelling vision and clear goals, your leadership really doesn’t matter, because leadership is…