The Point: What type of judgement do you have as a leader? Is it sometimes good, sometimes bad? And in those judgement-times, how do you go about deciding which way to choose? After all, there is a “right” way and a “wrong” way when it comes to judgement (especially when you consider the outcome of
The Leadership Challenge: Productivity
The Point: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes in a year. Eight thousand seven hundred sixty hours. Three hundred sixty-five days. Twelve months in a year… You get where I’m going, that there are only so many hours in a day and once they are gone, they are indeed gone. We started
The Leadership Challenge: Surveys
The Point: We see a lot of surveys at both Tip of the Spear Ventures and The Javelin Institute (We’ve partnered with organizations to even create a few!) But a conversation with a client the other day caused us to wonder; "Why are we conducting surveys?", "What do we do with the data surveys
The Leadership Challenge: Addressing Challenges
The Point: Challenges… You can’t live with them… You’d probably be better off living without them! But here’s the reality: Challenges are a part of every leader’s life. We started thinking here at the Javelin Institute, “If challenges are going to be present, how can today’s leader effectively
The Leadership Challenge: Mistakes
The Point: Leadership can certainly pose challenges to those that lead in and of itself. Rarely is leadership a game of perfection and mistakes will be made. We started thinking here at the Javelin Institute, if leadership perfection is rarely the case, then how does a leader overcome the mistakes
The Biggest Mistake a Leader Can Make in 2020 (And Nine Additional Mistakes to Avoid!)
The Point: 2020 will be here before we know it, and I see some disturbing Leadership-trends taking place (Please see my PS and PPSS below for a special offer!) Leadership is tough business when reviewed for results. With a microscopic fine-focus every leader’s actions can be analyzed. We started
The Leadership Challenge: Ownership
The Point: Let’s face the facts in the leadership-arena when it comes to success and failure. Success has many owners, while failure is an orphan. In other words, it’s easy to take ownership as a leader when things are going well. Hit those Sales Goals? Couldn’t have achieved them without my
Bright Idea… Drive Results!
When done right, the bright idea of leadership development and executive coaching transforms not only the individual, but their organizations and society they reside in as well to drive results. Here at the Javelin Institute, we know because leadership development and executive coaching is all we do
Soaring with the Eagles?
We often hear leaders throw around business buzzwords about their personnel like coach confetti… You’ve probably heard them too! “Let’s get a checkup from the neck up!” and “You can do better than you think you can!” and my all time favorite “If you think it, you can become it!” All are great