Top athletes, top musicians, and top performing artists all have coaches. Leadership is also a performing art, and the best leaders also have coaches. Coaching is a powerful professional relationship that helps leaders perform at their best and achieve their most important goals. When we coach leaders, The Elkind Group serves as a trusted advisor […]
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“If Birkman can shine a brighter light on our true selves, illuminate some ways we are both similar and distinct from others, and help people see their value, then we have good reasons to be here for another six decades.” Roger W. Birkman On March 26, 2014, the creator of the Birkman Method quietly passed […]
Some of you might be thinking: what a silly question? And, besides, who cares anyway? Well, any financial advisor who has business development responsibilities should care – a lot! Perhaps a different way to ask this question might be: are you the advisor who talks to your clients, prospects, and Centers of Influence about everything […]
I admit it – I am totally addicted to the Sochi Winter Olympics. I don’t think it’s the ceremony, the grandeur of opening night, the national pride, or the wonders of Russia that has me hooked. It is the total devotion to excellence and performance that keeps me coming back. How many times have these […]
Recently we hosted a dinner for five of my closest friends from college and their spouses. Over the course of the evening – any many glasses of wine – we shared some of the accumulated wisdom from our work in a wide variety of professional fields. My favorite insight of the evening came from my […]