Setting Realistic Expectations for the Next Role

october, 2020 THE PACIFIC INSTITUTE ARTICLES This is typically a tough conversation. Your team member has grown in their performance, but in your eyes, you know they aren’t yet ready for a more senior role. When we create a list of hurdles to jump and clear, we inadvertently create a checklist for promotion. Now we … Read more

Leadership in Action – Are You a Captain of the World?

October, 2020 THE PACIFIC INSTITUTE ARTICLES When we get set in our ways, convinced that only our way is the right way, it is very easy for us to see the world around us as in desperate need of fixing. This self-proclaimed Captain of the World approach is frustrating enough for ourselves. But, how is … Read more

Leadership in Action – Building Healthy Interdependence Within Your Teams

October, 2020 THE PACIFIC INSTITUTE ARTICLES While teaming and collaboration are ubiquitous in our organizations, high functioning teams are not. And while most of us and our team members have learned to play nicely in the sandbox, larger goals and incentives still can create a competitiveness that prevents the team from fully functioning at an … Read more

Leadership in Action – Are We Unintentionally Creating an Unethical Culture?

october, 2020 THE PACIFIC INSTITUTE ARTICLES When we are leading others, we are shaping their behaviors with our expectations. While we may be conscious of many of our expectations, both explicit and implicit, there are many more expectations that we are completely unconscious of delivering. The one place, where the impact is often unconscious, is … Read more