Executive Coaching: Lessons from the Front
Over the past several years in building our executive coaching practice, Leathers Milligan & Associates has been asked to support our clients’ success in a wide variety of situations. We have had engagements ranging from fixing potentially career limiting performance issues and behaviors, to helping groom a senior leader for the CEO role. We have learned many practical lessons, through both...
Read MoreOnboarding For Sustained Success
In a survey by the Corporate Leadership Council, an average of 50% of newly hired executives quit or were separated within the first three years. Transitions from the outside are much harder because executives from outside are: 1) not familiar with structure, informal networks and communication, 2) not familiar with the culture, 3) unknown and have less credibility than someone from within, and...
Read MorePygmalion: High and Low Expectations are Contagious
In George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion, Eliza Doolittle explains: “You see, really and truly, apart from the things anyone can pick up (the dressing and the proper way of speaking, and so on), the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves but how she she’s treated. I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins because he always treats me as a flower girl and...
Read MoreA Perfect Storm
The Gallup-Healthways organization publishes its monthly Well-Being Index http://www.well-beingindex.com/ on the second Thursday of each month. The data in the Index are derived from Gallup-Healthways’ daily live telephone sampling of at least 1,000 U.S. adults aged 18 and over and measures Life Evaluation, Emotional Health, Physical Health, Healthy Behavior, Work Environment and Basic...
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