by Terri Klass | Aug 12, 2018 | Career Development, Change Management, Empowerment, Leadership Development
We leave teams and organizations. We move on from customers or they move on from us. We have conflict with colleagues and bosses. We make imperfect decisions which leads to a delay in a project. Many leaders face these types of situations throughout their career and...
by Terri Klass | Jul 8, 2018 | Career Development, Empowerment, Leadership Development, Mentoring
There has been a great deal of discussion on my recent blogs about different leaders’ experiences with mentoring partnerships. Mentors have impacted many of our careers in such important ways and hopefully we are all sharing our stories with team members and...
by Terri Klass | Jun 10, 2018 | Building Confidence, Career Development, Core Values, Empowerment, Leadership Brand, Leadership Development, Negative self-talk, Storytelling
Our leadership story is the most powerful tool leaders have to help them describe the path they chose and what went into formulating their critical career decisions. Our stories showcase the skills and knowledge we gained as we explored and learned from different jobs...
by Terri Klass | May 13, 2018 | Building Trust, Career Development, Communication, Empowerment, Goal Setting, Leadership Development, Management Development, Open-Minded
The past few weeks we had a groundhog set up shop beneath our front porch. He dug some deep holes to create a path under the porch and seemed to be constantly escaping our view. Then the critter decided to eat our wire that connects to an outside pole lamp. And that...
by Terri Klass | Apr 15, 2018 | Collaborative Leadership, Empowerment, Leadership Development, Management Development, Open-Minded, Positive Feedback, strategic listening
Many leaders have faced the scenario where they are managing up to help their boss survive. And I do mean survive. Their immediate boss may feel “put-upon” and undervalued by their senior leader and as a result implodes consistently. This was what was happening to...
by Terri Klass | Apr 8, 2018 | Building Culture, Building Trust, Career Development, Coaching, Empowerment, Influential Leader, Leadership Development, leadership qualities, Management Development, Manager as Coach, Open-Minded
Listening to a client this week share his frustrations on the state of leadership in his organization brought alarm to me on how I was going to help. By the time I got off the phone call my head was spinning with both concern and possibility. Sure this company had...
