UC Berkeley management professor Morten T. Hansen wrote a wonderful book in 2009 on collaboration across business—aptly titled “...
Studies show that many organizations find employee retention their top challenge today.
There’s a problem, however: retaining employees isn’t—or at least shouldn’t be— enough. You also need them to be engaged in their work. Gallup, which has long studied employee engagement, in 2013 estimated that...
We are excited to show our newly developed Real Leadership Solutions Video!
Connect the Dots Managing Director Erika Lamont says: "We developed this short video to provide our clients and prospects with a quick overview of what we do and how we do it. We think it will serve as a great conversartion starter."
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Boosting leaders’ performance and key teams’ productivity can make a tremendous difference on an organization’s bottom line.
To achieve these outcomes, some organizations are bringing in specialist consultants to provide leadership coaching and to lead team dynamics efforts. Many...
The analyst firm Gartner recently published a noteworthy report, “Top 3 Priorities for HR in 2019,” that we think is worth reading, thinking about and discussing.
The...
Managing Directors for CTD, Brenda Hampel and Erika Lamont recently presented a program to the Denver Colorado Chamber of Commerce on Leadership. It was a packed house!
“Take a look.”
The leader of an academic and technical group pointed Connect the Dots Managing Director Brenda Hampel to the work area of team members who had just participated in a session with her on emotional intelligence.
What she saw: small groups of team members talking...
Many employers take half-measures or do nothing at all to help newly hired leaders adapt to the new company culture and their roles.
As a result, these leaders, from a cultural integration perspective, are largely left to sink or swim. Some will inevitably sink, and thus fail to...
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