Frontline Leadership Solutions - Strategic Planning & Accountability

Inuksuk’s are monuments made of unworked stones that are used by the Inuit. The traditional meaning of the Inuksuk is “ Someone was here” or “You are on the right path.” Leadership development is a journey that we are all on together. People have gone before us, we can learn from them.

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Find Me Someone For This Position

Find me someone for this positionWhile you may not want to say this to a hiring manager who is standing over your desk in desperate need to fill a vacant position, believe it or not, the cost of hiring a weak employee like in many cases exceeds the cost of leaving the position vacant until you can find the right person. The best leaders and organizations that I work with rarely succumb to pressure, of simply filling the vacancy. Sometimes, however, the ‘here and now’ can make managers take short term actions which they will pay dearly for later. Read More →

“The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born - that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.”
Warren Bennis