When you work as a coach – or in any role developing people – the individual is at the heart of everything you do. Each person you coach is unique, and their personal history, role, behaviors, motivations, and goals for the future all influence their developmental path. So…
Having worked at MRG for more than a decade, I’ve had many opportunities to witness the powerful impact of coaching and leadership development on the people we work with. When I found myself navigating a number of professional changes earlier this year, it became clear I’d found the…
A perhaps surprising confession from the leader of an assessment organization: I was not always a fan of assessments. I have always believed that humans are complex, often paradoxical, frequently evolving and changing. And many of the assessments I encountered early in my career seemed to ignore that…
“’Research’” is our middle name!” If you’ve tuned into a research presentation with Maria Brown, MRG’s Head of Research, you’ve probably heard this (lightly corny) little one-liner. But the truth is, we mean it – while it’s literally our middle name, it’s also the foundation of what we…
We are in a moment of unprecedented upheaval in the job market. In many organizations, there’s pressure to pay extra attention to retain and develop current staff – particularly those promising high potentials – to ensure that there’s a sufficient pool of talent prepared to step up when…
Last week, Andrew Rand and David Ringwood offered a webinar that took us through three key things to consider when making a career transition. Given the tight labor market – and the pressure people may be feeling to go where the grass is greener – it’s certainly a…
There are plenty of reasons that you’ve heard us beat the Shared Leadership drum over and over again: at this moment in time, it just makes sense. Organizational needs are increasingly complex. Leaders are under pressure to meet a broader array of expectations. And in many cases, organizations…
In the last 18 months, many people’s working worlds have been turned upside down. Through challenges and disruptions large and small, one thing has become clear: in work, as in life, we’re much better when we work together. In fact, demands on leaders have been increasing for decades,…
When I now think of consumer packaged goods organizations, I think of all the empty shelves in March of 2020 when the world…well…ground to a halt. It’s amazing what you take for granted and sometimes it takes that thing no longer being available for you to recognize your…
The term diversity can have slightly different meanings to different people. We often think about diversity as involving a narrow set of factors such as ethnicity, gender, age, or culture. The reality is that whether it is immediately evident or not, virtually any leader is working with a…