Tag: Leadership
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Three Surefire Actions to Win and Retain Talent
Velocity Leadership Consulting’s neuroscience-based program addresses unconscious leadership bias to transform company culture and accelerate business results.
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How Executives Can Benefit by Thinking Like an Ultra-Endurance Runner
Velocity Leadership Consulting’s neuroscience-based program addresses unconscious leadership bias to transform company culture and accelerate business results.
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Authentic Leaders are the Antidote for a Languishing, Post-COVID Workforce
Velocity Leadership Consulting’s neuroscience-based program addresses unconscious leadership bias to transform company culture and accelerate business results.
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DEI: Beyond the Band-Aid
Velocity Leadership Consulting’s neuroscience-based program addresses unconscious leadership bias to transform company culture and accelerate business results.
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Denver Business Addresses Unconscious Bias to Help Companies Create Cultures of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI)
Velocity Leadership Consulting’s neuroscience-based program addresses unconscious leadership bias to transform company culture and accelerate business results.
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Attain Leadership Mastery by Understanding the Unconscious Mind
Velocity Leadership Consulting’s neuroscience-based program addresses unconscious leadership bias to transform company culture and accelerate business results.
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New Leadership Development Program Helps Companies Respond to The Great Resignation and Win the War for Talent
Velocity Leadership Consulting’s neuroscience-based program addresses unconscious leadership bias to transform company culture and accelerate business results.
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The Great Resignation: What’s leadership got to do with it?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In October 2021, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that 4.3 million Americans, or 2.9% of the entire workforce, quit their jobs in August. This record-breaking month topped a series of previous record-breaking months. Almost all industries are experiencing this exodus. Achievers and the Mental Health Association report that more than half of employees in the…
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Blind Spots, Ruts, and Behaviors that Hold Leaders Back
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Everyone has behavioral patterns that stifle performance. These patterns, referred to as “blind spots,” are often unrecognized consciously by the individual. Patterns in which executive leaders get stuck become ruts that prevent them from achieving the elite level of performance required to make a lasting impact in their organization. Because the behavior and its…
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Three Ways to Boost Your Leaders’ Performance
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Top leaders provide an edge for new ideas, efficient execution, and great team dynamics. Companies that invest in leaders strengthen the organization as a whole and promote even greater growth. According to a Deloitte study, 89% of executives surveyed considered the need to strengthen, re-engineer, and improve organizational leadership an important priority, but 56%…
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Winning the War for Talent
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] To create and maintain a high-performing company, it’s imperative to get the right people at the top. But it’s a tight market for top talent – especially senior leaders. How do you attract and retain the best? Prioritize Employee Growth At their core, people want to make a difference – and they want to…
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Developing a Pro-DEI Culture Requires Structural Change at the Leadership Level
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “Most of us are outsiders. It just depends on where we’re looking in or out from.” – Trevor Noah It seems that overnight, almost every company has chosen Diversity, Equity and Inclusion – DEI – as its #1 initiative for 2021. In reality, it has been an issue for decades, but its front and…
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Finding Momentum at the Midpoint
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the middle of the night in Joannas, a small village in southern France. Heavy winds are fiercely ripping around me and, at some points, knock me over. I am completely alone. The only thing I can see is a small circle of light from my headlamp. I am mid-point in a 120kilometer (74…
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Which Comes First: Developing Leaders or Achieving Strategic Initiatives?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A recent survey of Vistage members asked that they identify the top three 2021 strategic initiatives in which their companies will be investing. Responses overwhelmingly recognized Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DE&I) as the top priority. Second among larger companies was attracting, managing and up-leveling talent, and revenue growth was third. Many companies list leadership…
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Challenges for Leaders Mount. What’s the Solution?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] “The best way to move an organization forward – through any strategic initiative – is by developing better leaders.” – CEO of a $17.1B company and client of Velocity Leadership Consulting With a changed leadership landscape – which includes addressing priorities such as COVID, DEI, talent turnover, and succession – companies are faced with…
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Are Great Leaders Born or Made?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] It’s the eternal question. While “born” leaders may display certain traits early in life, the good news is anyone with the right motivation can learn, nurture and refine skills to become a great leader. In my last blog, 8 Skills that Make Good Leaders Great, I outlined the skills that can be learned and…
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8 Skills that Make Good Leaders Great
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Leadership can be learned; it is not innate. Some may have natural leadership ability, but—with high level willingness and desire to do the work of continuous improvement—anyone can learn to be a great leader. Having coached C-suite individuals for over a decade, I’ve uncovered 8 skills that, when honed, can transform a good leader…
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Developing Leaders in a Virtual World
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Effective leadership that inspires teams and promotes growth is tough enough under “normal” circumstances. Leaders are constantly challenged with breaking through clutter, knowing what’s around the corner and addressing it, while enabling teams to perform at their highest levels. However, doing so in an ever-expanding virtual world can feel daunting. I consistently hear from…
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Recalibrating Your Leadership Team Post-COVID
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] As a business leader with post-COVID recovery in sight, you may find that you have mixed feelings and questions about how your team can best navigate the uncharted waters ahead. With many factors in play leaders may feel scattered and stressed. A change in mindset will enable leaders to show up differently, with decisiveness…
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Whatever Your Personal Ironman, You Can Achieve It
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] The top, scientifically proven obstacle to our achievements is limiting beliefs. We may tell ourselves, “I don’t have enough money, time, talent, [fill in the blank] to achieve that.” Those limitations often exist only in our heads and are not consistent with reality. They result when our unconscious mind compares our perceived abilities to…