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Archive for category: Professional development
Grow Your People, Grow Your Business
Karen Colligan, Development, Leadership, learning and development, Professional development, leadership, personal development plan, 0I heard a rather startling statistic the other day – since 2010 traffic on Bay Area freeways has increased...
Possibilities Abound as Baby Boomers Retire
Karen Colligan, Career planning, Possibilities, Professional development, bench strength, Career, opportunity, 0A few years back, when the first baby boomers (born between 1946 and 1964) began to reach retirement age,...
From Possibility to Reality – Creating Effective Goals
Karen Colligan, Learning, Planning, Professional development, opportunity, personal development plan, working on a dream, 0We’re nearing the end of the first month of what I’m calling The Year of Possibilities. I hope you...
Achieving Clarity and Focus as a Leader
Karen Colligan, Behavioral assessments, Leadership, Learning, Professional development, leadership, 0One of my goals in the Leadership Workshops I facilitate is to help participants achieve clarity around who they...
6 Ways to Tell Whether You Are Managing or Leading
Karen Colligan, Leadership, Management, Professional development, leadership, 0One of my roles as an executive coach is to help people become very clear about what it means...
When Opportunity Knocks, Be Ready!!!
Karen Colligan, Career planning, Learning, Professional development, Career, opportunity, personal development plan, 0It’s that Back to School time of year, and as we happily watch our kids embark on a new...
Midpoint Musings – A Plan for the Rest of the Year
Karen Colligan, Learning, Life, Performance, Professional development, personal development plan, skill set, working on a dream, 0In the leadership development workshops I conduct I always include some kind of action planning at the end. After...
Lessons from Improv: “And” not “But”
Karen Colligan, Communication, Leadership, Life, Professional development, communication, leadership, 0One of the things I do in my business (and love to do) is speak to all sizes and...
Invest in Your People – Invest in Your Future
Karen Colligan, Engagement, Leadership, People, Performance, Professional development, Succession planning, Uncategorized, bench strength, employee satisfaction, leadership, people, 0Employee engagement has been a hot topic for awhile now, with some pretty staggering statistics around engaged vs. disengaged...
Succession Planning – Not a Nice-to-Have, a MUST-HAVE
Karen Colligan, Career planning, Leadership, Professional development, Succession planning, leadership, strategy, 0Companies succeed in large part because of strong leadership. Yet, according to a recent succession planning survey by Human...
Focus on the Future: Develop the “Soft Skills”
Karen Colligan, Career planning, Learning, Professional development, Uncategorized, Career, personal development plan, 0There’s an old saying among recruiters and other hiring professionals – “Hire for attitude, train for aptitude.” Yet how...