The Best Executive Coaching Firms and Who Each One Is Built For
About the Author Gene Hammett is an executive coach and the host of the Growth Think Tank podcast, where he has interviewed more than 1,200 leaders of fast-growth companies since 2014. He is the co-founder of Core Elevation and the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. The best executive coaching firm depends on what you need. Peer groups like Vistage suit CEOs who want a group, the COO Alliance serves second-in-command leaders, and Strategic Coach offers entrepreneur workshops. For founders of 30- to 100-person companies who want their whole
High Potential Employees Development: Spot, Grow, and Keep Them
About the Author Amanda Hammett is the co-founder and CEO of Core Elevation and a leadership expert focused on developing and retaining emerging leaders. She is the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. Someone asks you to name your high-potential employee. You don’t even pause. You name your best performer. Odds are, that’s the wrong person. I work with fast-growth companies on developing and keeping their emerging leaders. You’d be surprised how often this mix-up happens. Performance tells you who is great at today’s job. Potential tells you who
How to Develop Leadership Skills in Your Employees
About the Author Amanda Hammett co-founded Core Elevation, where she serves as CEO and helps fast-growth companies develop and keep their emerging leaders. She co-authored How to Have Tough Conversations. You can’t hire leadership skills the way you fill an open role. You build them. Inside the people you already have. Across the fast-growth companies I work with, the strongest emerging leaders were rarely the obvious pick. They got there for one reason. Someone developed them on purpose. That’s what developing leadership skills in employees means: handing your best people
Manager Development That Turns Managers Into Leaders
About the Author Amanda Hammett is the co-founder and CEO of Core Elevation and a leadership expert focused on developing and retaining emerging leaders. She is the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. She was the sharpest engineer in the company. So they promoted her into management. Then I watched the whole thing quietly come apart around her. She was brilliant at the work. But leading people was a different job, and nobody had ever taught her the second one. That second skill set has a name. Manager development
Poor Communication in the Workplace: Causes and Fixes
About the Author Gene Hammett is an executive coach and the host of the Growth Think Tank podcast, where he has interviewed more than 1,200 leaders of fast-growth companies since 2014. He is the co-founder of Core Elevation and the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. “We have a communication problem.” I hear that sentence almost every week, and it almost always arrives with the prescription already attached: write clearer emails, run tighter meetings, send the managers to a workshop. Then the confusion will finally lift. That is the
Developing Leaders at Every Level Without the Bottleneck
About the Author Gene Hammett is an executive coach and the host of the Growth Think Tank podcast, where he has interviewed more than 1,200 leaders of fast-growth companies since 2014. He is the co-founder of Core Elevation and the co-author of How to Have Tough Conversations. For years, I ran my business as the best firefighter in the building, and I was proud of it. Every problem came to me, and I thought having all the answers was leadership. It wasn’t. It was me building a company that couldn’t