Bill Joiner’s Leadership Agility Blog
Continued writing with occasional podcasts on Leadership Agility, the research-based book on stages of personal and leadership development. This blog captures and extends the book's key ideas; shares new insights, research, and applications from client work. Comments welcome! You can also follow Bill on Twitter: @leaderagilityHow Great Change Leaders use Stakeholder Agility
June 20, 2015 by Bill Joiner
Filed under Applications of Leadership Agility, Leading organizational change, What is Leadership Agility?
In today’s business environment, leading change has become an integral part of a manager’s job. It’s also become more challenging. One of the biggest challenges is gaining sustained commitment from those whose support we need to be successful. This post is about a particular kind of leadership agility we need to lead change effectively: “stakeholder […]
High Quality 360 Feedback – Changing mindsets
June 18, 2015 by Bill Joiner
Filed under Applications of Leadership Agility
This post is about the importance of focusing on both mindsets and behavior when creating an action plan at the end of a 360-feedback process. In a recent post, Kevin Cashman reported new research with a large sample size of managers and companies that clearly established, through quantitative assessment, that the managers in companies with […]
Starting to Change a Difficult Relationship
June 11, 2015 by Bill Joiner
Filed under Applications of Leadership Agility, Leadership development
What can you do if you find yourself in a difficult relationship with a key stakeholder? Let’s say it’s a peer, for example, over whom you have no authority but whose cooperation you need to be successful? Here’s an example from my coaching practice. “Jason,” an executive in a high-tech company, was in a new […]