The Meeting Habits of High-Performing Teams
Meeting processes shape how teams communicate, decide, and follow through. Learn what effective teams do to make meetings productive and impactful.
July 8, 2025
Why Team Alignment Matters for Team Effectiveness
Team alignment helps teams move together with clarity and purpose. Learn how to strengthen alignment around vision, priorities, and shared commitment.
July 3, 2025
Why Team Assembly Is the Foundation of Team Effectiveness
Team assembly is the starting point for team effectiveness. This post covers how to set your team up for success with the right structure, roles, and support systems.
June 30, 2025
Executive Competencies for AI That Matter Most Right Now
AI is reshaping how leaders operate, make decisions, and build teams. This post outlines six executive competencies for AI that every startup, scale-up, and enterprise leader should be building now to stay relevant and lead effectively.
June 21, 2025
Executive Team Effectiveness: 5 Warning Signs
This post highlights five lagging indicators of executive team effectiveness—warning signs that signal deeper issues may be holding your senior team back. Learn what to watch for and how to respond.
June 19, 2025
How AI and Executive Delegation Can Evolve Together
AI and executive delegation are converging. This post explores how using AI can sharpen the way leaders delegate, communicate, and develop their teams.
June 16, 2025
AI Executive Assessment Analysis: Can It Match Human Insight?
This blog post explores whether AI can produce accurate, client-ready aggregate analysis of executive assessment data. After comparing AI-generated output to a consultant-led analysis across nine real reports, the findings reveal that while AI appears credible on the surface, it lacks the nuanced judgment needed for high-stakes leadership insights. The post underscores that human expertise remains essential when interpreting complex executive data.
June 13, 2025
Trust, But Verify: A Principle for Leading People – and Managing AI
Why This Principle Still Matters “Trust, but verify” may sound like Cold War advice, but it’s one of the most practical leadership tools we still
June 10, 2025
Executive Assessments Aren’t Just Hiring Tools — Here’s How to Use Them for Growth
A lot of companies treat executive assessments like a final exam. Someone gets promoted, hired, or tapped as a successor — and we run a 360 or a leadership assessment just to make sure they “check out.”
June 6, 2025
Getting the Talent Piece Right When Merging Two or More Companies
When most merger strategies are conceived, the architects are focused most on business synergies, economies of scale, and the cost savings, where most underperform is
November 22, 2020
Building Strong Relationships in a Virtual Team Offsite
In today’s work environment, people are going from video meeting to video meeting all day. These meeting are almost always transactional and heavily focused on
November 22, 2020
Seven Keys to Designing a Great Virtual Offsite
Offsites are important moments for teams to come together to do meaningful work and to build cohesion. They are also a big investment, where a
November 4, 2020
Locking In Value After a Virtual Team Offsite
Have you ever had an outstanding offsite experience where you made great progress as a team and then afterwards nothing happened and the gains were
August 8, 2020
Executive Assessment Best Practice: Improving Feedback Interviews
We’ve conducted over 4,000 reference interviews as part of high-touch, in-depth executive assessments. Along the way, we’ve learned a lot about what works and what
May 17, 2020