Enlightened leaders are learning that employee fulfillment, environmental stewardship and social responsibility will be the keys to increased productivity and creativity in the future. –Richard Barrett Cultural Transformation Tools are a suite of tools designed by Richard Barrett of Richard Barrett & Associates, LLC. The Tools support the transformation of corporations, non-profits, NGO's, government institutions, [...]
Survival is no longer an issue of superior power or force, but an issue of superior creativity. The biggest challenge facing organizations is how to build a culture that encourages the highest levels of employee creativity and productivity. -Richard Barrett Culture Shaping - Unleash the Potential Every leader has the prerogative of shaping organizational culture. [...]
Bob Chapman, Chairman and CEO of Barry-Wehmiller said in a talk on “People-Centric Leadership” at Washington University OLIN school of business: “…Nobody can be managed. Nobody wants to be managed, but we have you take management classes, give you management degrees, give you management titles, and therefore you think you are supposed to manage…” We [...]
It’s that time of year… the time to do performance evaluations. Many managers and associates look forward to these conversations like going to the dentist! Managers aren't sure what to say, and often fall into the trap of commenting on either the stellar accomplishments, outright disasters or make comments like “you’re doing fine”. Associates aren't sure what to say [...]
I have had the pleasure of working with a large global client for the past year in developing their performance coaching culture. A common question that arises is the question of when to coach or when to use a more directive leadership style. This is a guest blog I wrote in response to that question. [...]
Most business leaders are ignorant when it comes to coaching. If you went around and asked a dozen leaders in your organization about the uses of coaching in the workplace you would get a dozen different answers. Terms that would come up would include: executive coaching, team coaching, high-potential coaching, career coaching, and coaching to [...]
It can be easy to overlook the power of trust and the simple ways it is established. I was reminded of this by a recent post from Leadership Moments, a newsletter put out by Beth Flynn over at the Ohio State University Leadership Center. I am republishing a portion below. If you would like to [...]
In 2010, my colleagues at the Barrett Values Centre drew data from 100 Barrett Values Centre Leadership Values Assessments, a 360-degree leadership development tool, to examine the perceived differences among leaders based on their personal entropy (degree of dysfunction). They recently revisited that data to compare the overall results by gender. They looked at the top values, strengths and areas for [...]
In national values assessments across the globe, people profess to holding values such as "trust" and "accountability" as their core personal values. How then can we live our personal values on a national scale, exhibiting them to the world through our actions? Our research clearly indicates that fear continues to rule. According to the 2011 [...]
Our global leadership crisis has me thinking about the need to develop the leader inside each and every one of us. Leadership development is often reserved for our "best and brightest", the people that have been identified as "high-potential" performers. This practice and philosophy has surely contributed to the widespread state of inept governance and corporate [...]
