The First 100 Days of a New CEO
We have accompanied numerous executive committees through this new leadership team journey. Their powerful testimonials about its contribution to achieving extraordinary business results, improving team cohesiveness, and growing as individual leaders, inspired us to share the approach more broadly for others who may benefit from the lessons learned.
The Agile Mindset – What you need to BE Agile
Whatever the reason, adopting an Agile mindset is a key part of setting out on the Agile journey. BE the agility you want to see in your organization. Agile is not a destination, it is a mindset and a way of working together.
Empowering Change-Makers to Propel Your Culture Transformation
Organizations place a lot of value on leaders who can effectively lead others through change. However, despite the importance that both leaders and organizations place on change leadership, many organizations lack an intentional strategy to help their leaders become effective change-makers.
How Perfectionism Kills Excellence
Some people believe perfectionism is a positive trait. However, we have found that perfectionism kills excellence, harms relationships, compromises results in the long term, and generates frustration and disappointment.
Survivor Syndrome: Revamping your Leadership Summit and Employee Town Hall
The more VUCA in our current world, the more we need to reconnect and take a reflective break with our people. 2020 is not the year to cancel, but rather to focus on revamping the Leadership Summit and Employee Town Hall.
The 3 Keys to Having Difficult Conversations Online
Conversations that are emotionally difficult or complex in nature are often stressful. With more and more companies making WFH the new norm beyond COVID19, having difficult conversations online in an effective and compassionate way is a critical leadership skill.
Conscious Culture Amidst Workplace Disruption
Based on our experience at Axialent, culture is the greatest lever to achieve sustainable business results. Understanding how culture can be leveraged to boost organizational performance is the single and most important reason to manage culture.
Strengthening Our Mental Toughness to Achieve Real Change
For most of us, change is hard. Our level of “grit” (or mental toughness) is a key component to our success in sticking to a plan and pursuing a long-term goal we feel passionate about. Strengthening our mental toughness is an essential piece of achieving real change.
Polarities at play amid COVID-19
To survive and thrive in these difficult times, you have to be able to put the polarities and tensions created by this hyper volatile context on the table. Talk about them with the mindset of the learner; understand how everything can be true at the same time.
Survivor Syndrome: Tapping into the Player Within
How can leaders respond to the current challenges in a constructive way? One way is by asking people what they need to be at their best, inviting them to be players and to regain control of their situation.