Goodbye Summer

Dear Reader:

I hope you’ve had a good summer. In Eastern Pennsylvania where my wife and I now live, I can report the passage of happy months of swimming, bike riding and exploration our new environs. We’ve also had some great trips out to the Chicago area to spend a week with a Consulting Client along with trips to Baltimore and North Carolina to see friends and family.

To fully wrap up the summer, on 21 September, I’m looking forward to being a panelist on the topic, Fighting fatigue – How to remain on top of your game at the Women in Insurance Summit, New York 2023. I hope to see many of you there!

And with summer days shortening into the autumn, I again pick up the pen (or at least bang away at the keyboard) and write some new blogs (btw, you can also check out the tapas version of my stuff on Instagram, Facebook and of course LinkedIn).

An observation from my Coaching and Consulting business is the high degree of overlap among the challenges clients want help with. Often, the topics which come up are fundamental to effective leadership and team success, going in the direction of basic skills an effective leader must master.

So, in my next series of blogs, I’m going to address a number of these, including:

• Effective communication

• Managing difficult conversations,e.g. the dreaded end-of-year review

• Effective influencing & conflict management with peers & bosses

• Building confidence & resilience

• Driving accountability

• Inspiring humans

• Strategic Leadership

• Project/initiative execution

• Keeping the team moving when trouble hits

As always, I hope you find something for yourself in these and I appreciate the continued feedback on ideas and topics which might be presenting you or your team a leadership challenge!