by Dale Henry | Mar 1, 2015 | Leadership
There’s a wonderful story about how Pat Summit, the great Tennessee Lady Vols basketball coach, would handle halftime with her team. She would let the team, led by their captain(s), go into the locker first without her. The team would go to the chalkboard and make 3...
by Dale Henry | Jan 30, 2015 | Growth, Leadership
Titles are good for stroking egos, but they don’t mean much as far as leadership. As Margret Thatcher, the former British prime minister observed, “Being a leader is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.” Many misguided leaders aspire to...
by Dale Henry | Nov 1, 2014 | Leadership, Strengths
‘High potential’ talent, HiPos for short, has been an area of interest in business talent management for quite a while. HiPos are valuable people to have in your organization, but how do you leverage them to best improve the performance of your business? Here’s what...
by Dale Henry | Oct 27, 2014 | Leadership
Let’s be real. I hear this one a lot. Often at the beginning of my group leadership development programs. People, usually the older people or those higher up the organization (but don’t tell them I shared that), say that their style of leadership works ‘just...
by Dale Henry | Oct 2, 2014 | Leadership
The head coach of an NFL football team understands how to get the most from the players on their team. (In other words, they understand talent management). They have an offensive team and defensive team, along with ‘special teams’, a ‘hands’ team, a nickel defense, a...
by Dale Henry | Oct 1, 2014 | Leadership
Yup, I completely blew it. And I ‘teach this stuff’. I knew better. But it ended with a big ol’ slice of humble pie. Let me set the stage… I was partnering with another firm to provide some strategic talent management consulting to some their...
