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For over 20 years we’ve been helping high-potential individuals and companies achieve success. We hope you'll enjoy our new bi-monthly newsletter with helpful tips for your leadership development. Please Contact us with feedback on topics you’d like to see in future issues.

Internal vs. External Coaching Programs

The benefits of coaching for leadership development have been touted for many years. Most of the research in the past points to the benefits of external coaching and shows less success with internal coaching programs. Some recent studies are now pointing to internal coaching program success. Here is what we learn from the studies. It seems the three biggest factors in determining an internal coaching programs success are; time to do the coaching, whether the coaches are perceived as credible, and whether the coaching sessions were perceived as confidential.

Down Time: Living the Blue Ocean Strategy

Remember the days when leaving the office meant you were actually leaving work and when vacation really was time off? With the advent of cell phones, e-mail, laptops, and Blackberries, it seems even Disney World can be an office. It turns out that when we can work from anywhere, we’ll work from anywhere! And that, my friends greatly reduces the amount of time we have to let our brains rest, put things in perspective, or dream about what might be?

Building Leaders, Building Community: Management Incubator Class Gives the VOA Boys' Group Home a Face Lift

In a project we lovingly call “Design on a Dime” meets “The Apprentice” our March 2006 Management Incubator class took on the planning and renovation of the two dorm rooms at The Volunteers of America Boys' Group Home on North 22nd in Baton Rouge which houses 8 boys.

PCS Nitrogen Pilot Serves as "Best Practice" Competency Based Model

PCS Nitrogen in Geismar has recently completed a year long pilot project to move the organization toward a competency based leadership development model. The pilot has proved very successful and now Potash Corporation, a global Fortune 500 company and the parent company for PCS Nitrogen, is examining the model for implementation corporate wide.

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