Free Resources

• Discover Your Inner Strength: Cutting Edge Growth Strategies from the Industry’s Leading Experts
  This book by Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Brian Tracy and Mary Lippitt captures a wealth of information on how to harness strengths both personally and organizationally. Each chapter offers insights from a recognized industry leader on what it takes to capture a leader's full potential and sustain his/her success.
  Learn more about Discover Your Inner Strength.  Free Download.

• Preview: The Leadership Spectrum: 6 Business Priorities That Get Results
  Make leadership a priority. Deliver "smart results.” Ratchet up leadership effectiveness on six vital business priorities. Check out where you are on the "leadership spectrum" and learn why and how to shift gears throughout your organization's life cycle and produce results that matter.  Recipient of Bronze Award for Business Book of the Year.  Learn more about The Leadership Spectrum.  Free Download.

• Preview: The Leadership Spectrum Profile®: Targeting Enterprise Priorities
  The Leadership Spectrum Profile®: Targeting Enterprise Priorities(LSP) identifies what drives leader actions and how to adjust for changing circumstances and realities.  Knowing priorities can clarify goal alignment, bring decision making criteria into focus, and improve communication. In addition, by learning the spectrum of Profiles, individuals can learn how to more effectively influence others and how to improve team effectiveness. Learn more about the LSP.  Free Trial
  

• Preview: The Execution Priorities Inventory™
  The Execution Priorities Inventory™ helps you identify your execution Priorities--the goals, actions, and results that are currently the most critical for successful execution. If decision-making criteria have become habitual, insights from this Inventory help you reassess the driving Priorities. It also provides a framework for identifying new alternatives, evaluating risk/consequences, and getting sustainable results.  Learn more about the EPI.  Free Trial.

• Fix the Disconnect Between Strategy and Execution
  When strategy fails to achieve expected results, is it because the strategy was ill conceived or the execution was flawed? Research is pointing more and more to problems with execution.  Read more...
• Six Priorities That Make a Great Strategic Decision
  Using one lens to view strategic options magnifies potential benefits, overlooks limiting variables, and confirms pre-existing inclinations. The single strategy solution leads us astray if it assumes stability in our era of turbulence just as surely as if it assumes everything will change. Having a wide array of factors in decision making information may appear to muddy the analytic process, but it also increases the likelihood of success.
  Strategic leaders should concentrate on asking questions that tap multiple perspectives in order to avert the single lens trap as well as develop strategic thinking throughout their organization. Six priorities or desired outcomes can be used to generate balanced decisions, manage risk, and build a communication plan.  Read more...
• Moving Beyond Mars and Venus: A New Look at Gender and Leadership
  Toss away that stereotype that men and women at work are from different planets. After looking at leadership practices among 5,000 leaders nationwide, we found that working women and men are not aliens to each other at all.  Male and female leaders, however, do differ in what business goals they emphasize.  Read more...
• Balancing Key Business Priorities: A New Look at Leadership
  Thriving in today's rough and tumble business environment requires that leaders see organizations as living systems and understand how to handle them with multiple priorities. Leadership cannot be reduced to a single competency or trait. It is a dynamic interchange between employees, customers, and the organization, which can be more effectively understood by examining operating priorities.  Read more...
• CEOs Speak Out
  What should CEOs do if they believe their organizations could benefit from an increased level o f trust among all employees? "There is no one-size-fits-all prescription to improve organizational trust," Lippitt explains, "but it is important to begin with an unbiased trust audit or assessment to identify the underlying issues and root causes. Once there is consensus across the organization regarding the issues and causes of low trust, a focused action plan can be developed and implemented." Read more...
• Credibility Within the Workplace
  Corporate credibility has declined to the point where 76% of human resource executives say that senior management in their company has a credibility problem, according to a survey by Enterprise Management, Ltd. What actions should senior management take to build and maintain credibility? Read more...
  
• Developing the Other Side of Leadership
   The "how" of leadership (interpersonal relations, delegation, and empowerment) can be complemented with the "what" of leadership (priorities, goals, criteria, and direction) to present a holistic framework. Since the trainer's goal is to encourage leaders to develop as fully as possible, a bala nced leadership perspective is helpful.  Leadership task orientations fall into six major types.  These profiles also track with the organization life cycle.  Being able to identify and discuss these priorities can help leaders understand how to influence others,  why they should encourage diversity in thinking, and how to align tasks with the organizational life cycle.  Read more...