By: Maya Hu-Chan, C-Suite Coach, Executive Development Associates, Inc. Are you an equal partner with your customers, planning for long term growth together? Or are the battle lines still drawn in every commercial negotiation as you try to hit sales figures and preserve your margins? In recent years there has been a noticeable shift amongst large […]
posted on February 15, 2020 by
What Does it Take to be a Navy SEAL?
By: Scott Dannemiller, Chief Learning Officer, Executive Development Associates, Inc. Recently, while working with a government client, I struck up a conversation with an ex-Navy recruiter. He shared a story about a recent change in the ideal profile for a Navy SEAL. Apparently, the most fertile ground for finding elite candidates has traditionally been high school and […]
posted on February 1, 2020 by
Shot At….But Still Flying
By: Joe Jordan, Consultant, Executive Development Associates, Inc. Resilience is making a comeback in our corporate vocabulary. From Angela Duckworth’s best-selling book, Grit, to the U.S. Army’s Comprehensive Soldier and Family Fitness Program, to companies trying to ensure their own cyber survival, resilience is quickly gaining new ground. Resilience, perseverance, and tenacity were frequent themes during memorial events remembering Southwest Airlines founder Herb Kelleher. Between […]
posted on January 20, 2020 by
Positive Discussions Encourage Creativity
By: Lou Quinto, Leadership Speaker & Executive Coach, Executive Development Associates, Inc. Throughout the past decade I have worked with IT departments at many Fortune 500 companies. With each company I have encountered depressing stories about unproductive and highly negative interactions that have taken place in their “post implementation review” meetings – known in the IT vernacular as a PIR. A PIR is conducted at the […]
posted on January 10, 2020 by
Make 2020 Your Most Transformative Year Yet
By: Rose Cartolari, Sr. Consultant, Executive Development Associates, Inc. We all get into ruts: habitual, automatic cycles in our thinking and being. Usually, we believe that if we only just think through things clearly, we would be able to be more present and change our mindset more easily. But it’s never that easy. Changing your thinking does not mean […]
posted on December 15, 2019 by
Building Global Networks
By: Maya Hu-Chan, C-Suite Coach, Executive Development Associates, Inc. Here’s the bad news: It’s no longer enough to simply be great at your job. Here’s the good news: There’s a whole world waiting out there to help you shine. English poet John Donne coined the phrase ‘No man is an island’ – and, over the centuries, it has […]
posted on December 1, 2019 by
Performance Management in Developing Future Leaders
By: Sattar Bawany, Managing Director, EDA Asia Pacific & C-Suite Master Executive Coach “In the literature and research on leadership transitions and helping high potentials and future leaders to accelerate themselves into new roles, early findings indicate that new leaders gain leverage by putting in place the right strategies, structures, and systems, including performance management. […]
posted on November 15, 2019 by
The Coaching Conundrum
By: Joe Jordan, Consultant, Executive Development Associates, Inc. Ask 10 CEOs if their organizations promote a high-performance culture and you will get 10 positive responses. In a highly-competitive global market, no top executive would admit to anything less. Characteristically, a performance-driven culture provides a plentitude of feedback and coaching that is shared up, down, and across the organization. If companies are so committed to coaching for performance, why do surveys […]
posted on November 1, 2019 by
Of Transformation and Inflection Points
By: Rose Cartolari, Sr. Consultant, Executive Development Associates, Inc. We all know the frustration of working long and hard at something, expending lots of mental and emotional energy, only to see very little visible results. I hear this from people who are working out to get fit or dieting to lose weight, or from writers and […]
posted on October 15, 2019 by
The Art of Audience Engagement
By: Lou Quinto, Leadership Speaker & Executive Coach, Executive Development Associates, Inc. I’ve sat through literally hundreds of presentations. I know what you’re thinking: nobody should have to endure hundreds of business presentations in one lifetime. But alas, I have. Through all of them, I’ve observed that most presenters miss a great opportunity to ensure that the last […]
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