by Kevin Brimhall | Mar 9, 2023 | Leadership
The statistics are alarming: A Gallup poll found that companies fail to choose the candidate with the right talent for the job 82% of the time. Around 65% of millennials believe they’re not equipped to be leaders yet since they lack the necessary employer support for...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 20, 2023 | Book Summaries, Personal Improvement
Essentialism has been on my “to read” list for quite a while and I’m glad that I finally took the opportunity to dive in. In this book, subtitled The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, author and British business strategist Greg McKeown challenges some norms that many...
by Kevin Brimhall | Feb 7, 2023 | Goals / Purpose
In working with my clients, I do a lot of things. But at its essence, at its core, I am a coach. My parents were both teachers (Mom: kindergarten, Dad: college) so some of that is likely in my DNA (but coaching is different than teaching). Recently, the coaching...
by Kevin Brimhall | Nov 21, 2022 | Organizational Excellence
Now that you’ve hired ’em, what are you going to do with ’em? Once you have gone through the search and recruiting process, invested a fair amount of time and money, and selected the right candidate (in whom you are now going to invest even more time...
by Kevin Brimhall | Oct 25, 2022 | Personal Improvement
The last time we discussed emotional intelligence, we defined it as a person’s ability to sense, understand and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity. We also identified the five (5) dimensions...
by Kevin Brimhall | Sep 22, 2022 | Leadership
Have you ever experienced communicating with someone when their words did not match what you saw and heard? How did that make you feel? Did it engender a feeling of trust, of valuing and respecting you, of being forthright with you? Did you feel that something was...
by Kevin Brimhall | Aug 23, 2022 | Leadership
Some interesting stats: 25 Surprising Leadership Statistics to Take Note Of 69% of Millennials are concerned that their workplace does not develop their leadership skills; More than 77% of organizations report that leadership is lacking; In business, 83% of companies...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jul 26, 2022 | Personal Improvement
In any work situation (as well as outside of your job), you have a choice to be assertive, aggressive, or non-assertive. Your choice depends on many factors, of course, but which choice is typically the right one? Let’s start with a definition of the three choices we...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jun 27, 2022 | Personal Improvement
How do you enable your best self? Let’s face it: the past couple of years have not been easy. Remaining open, yet vigilant; positive, yet cautious; and resilient, yet flexible has been no easy task. For many, taking care of our loved ones has taken precedence over...
by Kevin Brimhall | Jun 2, 2022 | Goals / Purpose
Last time, in Part 1, we discussed the importance of having a purpose for your life, and we related it to many of the same reasons that a company has a vision. Just as an organization’s vision acts as a statement of potential and a description of what it wants to...
