Articles
Keys to Writing Powerful Recommendations
By Michael Wilkinson Whether you are an internal or external consultant, a manager or an individual contributor, most of us have ideas that we would ...
Death by SWOT Analysis
By Michael Wilkinson, CMF Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. Author, The Secrets of Facilitation andThe Secrets to Masterful Meetings So, you are in the midst ...
Buying Styles – Simple Lessons in Selling the Way Your Customer Buys
By Michael Wilkinson Managing Director, Leadership Strategies What are the things that sales people do that turn you off? Do you hate it when they ...
The Principles of SMART Facilitation (TM) – An Overview
(Adapted from The Secrets of Facilitation) By Michael Wilkinson, Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. In my first book, The Secrets of Facilitation, I described the ...
Thinking About Starting Your Own Business?
A Change Strategy for Budding Entrepreneurs By Michael Wilkinson, Managing Director, Leadership Strategies, Inc. "I've been thinking about taking the leap and starting my own ...
Innovation…
By Salim Hemdani Innovation is the buzz word in today's marketplace. Everyone wants to innovate and ideate on new concepts or incremental ones. Pressure from ...
To Coach or Not To Coach…Is That the Question?
By Kevin Fleming, PH.D. Reprinted with permission by Executive Decision magazine, March-April 2007 It has been said that any strength overused becomes a weakness, and ...
Give Me a Fulcrum
By Kim Sawyer People are the key to the success of any enterprise. They are the lever by which every other asset is utilized and ...
Do High Performers Really Need a Coach?
By Leigh Ann Rodgers, M.Ed. Some people think that hiring a business coach implies you lack something. Or worse, that you must be doing something ...
Executive Coaching Client Success Story
Coaching with a Purpose What comes to mind when you think of coaching? Oftentimes coaching in the business world is an ongoing relationship where over ...
Facilitation Training Client Success Story
Jim Rankin with Hydro One on "The Effective Facilitator" Summary We sat down with Jim Rankin, Director of Organization Alignment with Hydro One, and asked ...
Strategies for Stopping Dysfunctional Behavior Before it Starts: Ground Rules with a Purpose
By Richard Smith, Certified Master Facilitator and Principal Facilitator with Leadership Strategies We’ve all been in meetings before where things seemed to get out of ...
Contact
