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Everybody is entitled to our opinion! We provide our perspective on issues that impact talent management: corporate culture, onboarding, change management, mentorship, reorganizations and merger integrations to name a few.
Lead Quietly, Move Powerfully: Strategies for Introverts

By guest blogger and certified life coach, Elena Stewart You don’t need to dominate conversations…

Spotting Untapped Potential and Bringing It to Life

Every workplace has untapped talent waiting for the right conditions to emerge. Sometimes it’s the…

Ready for Prime Time?

You might go through succession planning exercises, segmenting your talent into “ready now” or “wait…

Peter Himmelman: Suspended by No String

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8N6EWKK_P2k&t=1s&ab_channel=StephenMossExecutive Springboard mentor Peter Himmelman discusses his new book of poems and prayers and his…

Mentoring the mentors

Eighty-four percent of Fortune 500 companies have formal mentoring programs in place. All companies within…

The art and science of mentoring

Contents: Introduction and history: 0:00 Mentoring’s role in professional growth 9:45 Benefits of mentoring 22:50…

Fitting in

I see a growing number of people with VP of Belonging titles. And it gives…

Enterprise orientation

As part of an Executive Springboard mentoring engagement, an executive takes a proprietary assessment. It…

Employer brands

I am a reformed marketing guy, but I remain passionate about brands. Many people like…

What the Church can teach us about succession

The Catholic Church has the kind of well-defined process for succession and continuation that you…

Promises made: How we mess up succession plans

The most common issue our mentors report executives in new positions face are team members…

Your role as a change agent

Almost any time an executive joins a new company, there is a mandate to change…

From Aspiring to Leading: Tailored Coaching Strategies for Emerging Leaders

By guest author Elena Stewart. Elena is a certified life coach who works with entrepreneurs…

Interview: Kevin Wilde’s Coachability Practices Review

Kevin Wilde talks about his Coachability Practices Review (CPR) assessment and how we rely on…

Interview: Peter Himmelman on creativity

Executive Springboard mentor Peter Himmelman talks about his book, Let me Out: Unlock your Creative…

Drew Bledsoe’s lessons on mentoring

The NFL football season began this past weekend, and there was an interesting lesson in…

5 keys to successful onboarding

MN Crossroads Career Services leader Harry Urschel hosts his July 18, 2024 webinar featuring Executive…

Learning curves

For many of us, there are at least three steep climbs we make in our…

Left behind. A survivor’s guide to downsizing.

Congratulations! Your scope of responsibilities just expanded! An adjacent product line is now under your…

Corporate culture questions

Executive Springboard helps leaders with their development and onboarding, so they can quickly make an…

Meet the new boss

It’s always a challenge to get your footing when you are in a new job.…

Postcard from Florida: Turtles and new employees

I am finishing up 6 weeks in my “winter office” on Cape San Blas, Florida.…

Postcard from Florida: The Forgotten Coast

We are spending our 12th February on Florida’s Forgotten Coast. The story goes that it…

Not all ERGs work well. How’s yours doing?

When many organizations talk about their commitment to Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI), they talk…

Once a great leader, NOT always a great leader

Our long-held notions of what is involved in effective leadership are getting a serious relook.…

Expats and Inclusion

My first role as a Vice President involved a move to Canada. I was asked…

How Your Leadership Can Wreck Your Business

This month’s blog was guest-written by Elena Stewart. Elena made the jump from a corporate…

When to go bold

Early in our careers, we are taught that having an action orientation is a good…

Lessons from the Iron Lady

In 1994, Margaret Thatcher spoke about her memoir The Downing Street Years to a packed…

Se habla business aquí

My friend Alpetkin Aksan is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Minnesota.…

Choosing a mentor: Four questions to ask yourself

Yale University suggests four good questions that people seeking career development should ask, as they…

The executive midlife crisis

I recently had a conversation with a Sr Dir of HR at Medtronic. She has…

Winning in the Great Resignation

We are living through the Great Resignation, the largest voluntary job exodus in our economic…

A different executive privilege

Let me reflect on why people become senior executives and how their station makes them…

Learning opportunities for leaders

By guest author Elena Stewart. Elena is a certified life coach who works with entrepreneurs…

Your employer brand

I am a reformed marketing guy, but I remain passionate about brands. Many people like…

Back to the office

It was the lead story in June 6th’s New York Times: “Historic Shift in Labor…

Nothing to prove: 3 stories

My friend Don Berglund is a former CEO of a $55M health services organization. He…

The C-suite Ensemble

Executive Springboard mentor John Keppeler shared an anecdote from his first time leading a company’s…

Finding your place on Olympus

Congratulations on being named to the leadership team! This reflects well on your accomplishments and…

The supply side of mentoring

“Do you do mentoring outside of onboarding?“ I received the same question four times in…

Doing the math

You are faced with lots of competing options for your talent development budget. I dare…

ABCs of Onboarding

Early childhood development usually focuses on the first five years of life. It’s in this…

Empowering moral courage

In July, Bruno Dey, at the age of 93, was found guilty of 5230 counts…

In transition? Close to an offer? Something you might not think about…

You’ve been furloughed or laid off. If you received a severance package, it was not…

Job hunting in the time of COVID-19

Most of my posts are directed towards corporate leaders. This time is different. The number…

Reboarding into the office

Executive Springboard helps leaders succeed in new roles. It’s easy to call what we do…

To our future heroes

In late March, I had a conversation with a headhunter in Silicon Valley. At a…

Coming out on the other side

Doug Fulton is a VP of Marketing at Uponor, a company involved in delivering water…

Lessons on recruiting your next leader

I spoke to a couple groups of business owners recently on executive retention and development.…

Postcard from Florida: Killer Seafood

Driving north to Mexico Beach, Florida, you leave the Eastern time zone and enter the…

Postcard from Florida: Loggerheads

​One of the first signs I encountered when driving onto Cape San Blas cautioned about…

4 Watch-outs for Internal Promotions

I firmly believe that internal promotions to leadership positions have far less risk than external…

Upending assumptions

Tomorrow, I will meet my half-sister, Gabrielle, for the first time. I’ve mentioned this to…

What you’d ask about corporate culture

Executive Springboard helps new leaders with their onboarding, so they can quickly make an impact…

ARE WE THERE YET?

Taking a stab at a calendar for executive assimilation Here is a disconnect: Onboarding focuses…

Does your onboarding suck?

In my parents’ day, kids learned how to swim by being thrown in the deep…

A cautionary tale of the two-month CEO

Earlier this year, I had lunch with a friend I’ll call Phil, who was looking…

The painful path to wisdom

I am a Minnesota Vikings fan. To be a Vikings fan is to know heartbreak.…

Learning to be coachable

I want to thank Andy Halley-Wright for his advice on how to improve my website.…

Making Corporate Marriages Work

I remember the morning my CEO made the announcement to the headquarters team that we…

Breaking Bad News

A colleague and I were given the unpleasant job of firing a long-tenured advertising agency.…

How do I Look?

​I once presented my business’s innovation pipeline to a company president at an R&D facility.…

Five Big Mistakes in Reorganizations

An executive’s skills come to the fore in a reorganization. While they make take on…

The bully in your office

I once reported to a CEO whom I considered a friend. But circumstances intruded that…

When Change Comes from the Outside

Almost any time an executive joins a new company, there is a mandate to change…

Meeting the New Boss

The courtship of a C-suite executive for a position in a company is a prolonged…

5 Hard Lessons for Long Distance Commuters

For a couple decades, I lived the life of a corporate nomad — Washington DC,…

Passed over and pissed off

Mia Mulrennan is Chief Talent Officer for Edmentium. Prior to that, she was a consultant…

Ten questions to tell if you are a corporate Neanderthal

Male executives, it is a good thing that you are re-examining your own behavior when…

The C’s of new executive success

Congratulations, Newbie! You have just landed a corner office in a company. While you’ve been…

Taking the risk out of new executive hires

The chance of a failed hire is a coin flip Heidrick & Struggles conducted a…