by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Mar 21, 2017 | Management Skills
“The key to leadership is influence not authority.” ~Kenneth Blanchard There is a leadership fact that I always share with clients. The higher up the food chain you go in an organization, the more your job is not about doing specific tasks. In fact, at times...
by Lisa Kohn | Jan 7, 2016 | Thoughtful Leadership
Last month we blogged about dancing as a leadership skill – of the importance of finding the things that excite, delight, and energize us so that we can be our most creative, innovative, and inventive selves, and of being able to flex and change and move with whatever...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Dec 7, 2015 | Thoughtful Leadership
“Why was she dancing? No reason. Just alive I guess.” ~George Saunders Life is too short not to dance. That’s what I’ve decided. Now, maybe not literally dance. That might work for some, but not for others. But whatever dance means to you. We spend a lot of time on...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | Feb 23, 2015 | Personal growth
“To be a champ you have to believe in yourself when nobody else will.” ~Sugar Ray Robinson I was with a coaching client the other day, meeting with her and her boss as a check-in. I was there to observe, facilitate the conversation when necessary, and provide a...
by Chatsworth Consulting Group | May 12, 2014 | Communication
“To be persuasive, we must be believable; to be believable, we must be credible; to be credible, we must be truthful.” ~Edward R. Murrow One of the leadership skills we teach is effective communication, and specifically persuasion and influence. Many clients come to...
