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Introducing Cascade’s new Director of Training & Organization Development,...
I’m excited to introduce myself as Cascade’s new Director of Training and Organization Development. Please rely on my expertise to help you confidently train and grow your people. Leadership Training...
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The Question: An Overlooked and Undervalued Leadership Tool
Once again, what we learned in early education is relevant to gaining insight in our leadership style. The four sentence types – declarative, interrogative, imperative and exclamatory – and how you...
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3 Ways to Navigate Millennial Entitlement
Regardless of whether I’m training, coaching or consulting, I regularly hear the same complaint about Millennials in the workforce: They’re so entitled. Though initially I jumped on the bandwagon (I’m...
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How to Secure Buy-in for Change Initiatives
Recently an HR Manager asked me for advice on how to implement a successful cross-training program for team leads across multiple departments. There was a concern that the team leads would view the...
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Leadership & Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: Are You Selling Your People Short?
Perhaps you’ve never heard of the Pygmalion Effect, but you probably have seen it in action. Essentially, it is a self-fulfilling prophecy whereby higher expectations lead to increased performance. Or...
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Overcoming Assessment Skepticism: How I Became a Convert of ©The Predictive...
Years ago I conducted an experiment as a project for my psychology class where I literally gave every participant the exact same results to an assessment and then asked how accurate the reading had...
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Mea Culpa: What I’d Like Everyone to Know about Cascade’s Trainings
I was speaking with a member today and had a painful realization: I’m not helping members enough with their training needs. Here’s what happened: I was talking with a member about how membership is...
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Succession Planning: Getting it Right
Though most of us associate succession planning with only the highest levels of leadership, identifying and developing new leaders is paramount at all levels of the organization. That said, the more...
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How to Revolutionize Workplace Conflict and Overcome Negative Assumptions
In my experience as a coach, a consultant, and a trainer, the number one saboteur of workplace relationships is that we make assumptions as to why someone is acting a particular way and those...
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Performance Appraisals Can Be Effective and Easy – You Just Don’t Know It Yet
Last year I wrote an article in NewsBrief about the challenges of designing (or redesigning) an organization’s Performance Management system. So when we launched our own Performance Appraisal software...
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What to Do When Feedback is Met With Defensiveness
It’s hard enough for many of us to summon the nerve to provide someone with constructive feedback. Ideally we’ve done some work preparing for the conversation: we’ve thought about a way to convey that...
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Become the Engaged Leader Your Organization Needs
Engaged leaders are the key drivers of initiatives that ensure the “people programs” in a company support and contribute to the mission and strategic objectives of the organization. Cascade offers a...
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New & Improved Format for Supervisor Trainings!
Over the past year we’ve started to notice that there’s some confusion as employers try to distinguish the difference between Effective Leadperson training versus our Basics of Supervision training,...
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How to Build Your Leadership Pipeline
According to a brand new EZ survey of 402 CEOs from 11 countries, together running companies worth $2.6 trillion in sales, 68% felt they were not fully prepared for their leadership position. Across...
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Sources of Leadership Power – Are You Using the Right One?
One of my favorite concepts regarding leadership development is about the interrelated concept of power. Leadership and power go hand in hand. A common definition of power is “the capacity or ability...
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Navigating Conflict in the Workplace
Conflict. Just the word itself is enough to make many of us feel uncomfortable. It conjures images of yelling, hurt feelings and damaged relationships. However, not all conflict is bad. In fact some...
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Lack of Training Equals a Lack of Trust for Managers
Gallup’s Q12, a twelve question survey administered to employees to measure engagement, has been around since 1996. Since that time tens of millions of employees from 195 countries have taken it....
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Sizzling Summer Training Sale
Summer is almost here and we want to give you this opportunity to take advantage of our training sale. Register one person for any of the programs listed below and send a second person, to the same...
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