By Leslie Simone, HG Executive Coach

Despite your leadership responsibilities, do you sometimes become drained and despondent at work? Or cranky and irritable, but can’t put your finger on the reason? Most of us tolerate staying in this frame of mind from time to time, even though there’s a fairly straightforward and fast ...Read More

You say you want to get the best out of the folks who work for you — OK, if you really do, then most likely, you are going to have to dismantle the current culture of your division or your company. Unless, of course, your culture is one where people deal with and say the truth all the time….which I have yet to find in X years of coaching!

How can you know if your office culture is based upon people telling the truth? Well, do your people tell YOU the truth? When was the last time someone who works for you told you: your micromanaging and not trusting me doesn’t work for me? Or whe ...Read More

As the founder and vice-chairman of The Handel Group’s corporate coaching division —and as coach of our top executive clients —I invariably find that when I step into a corporation to start working with an individual or team everyone is gossiping. It’s just a way of life in their workplace and everyone thinks that it’s just fine. In fact, the employees actually argue that it makes them feel better to “get stuff off their chest”….and then, they tell me, they can go about their day.

I don’t buy that theory! And I tell anyone who throws it at me, “I think you just sold out.”