What Are Your Coffee Beans?
Posted On July 18, 2024 BY Jay Prewitt, EdD
This post was written by Jay Prewitt, Director of Coaching and Facilitation at The Latimer Group. In my workshops and coaching sessions, I often ask, “What are your coffee beans?” This metaphor represents the mindfulness practices that help you stay present and focused, even when it’s tough. At The Latimer Group, we recognize that everyone has too […]
How Do We Build Communication with our Organization’s Next Generation? FATHOM Issue #7
Posted On June 11, 2024 BY Jay Prewitt, EdD and Jacob Ward
Every new generation has an impact on the workplace.For leadership, success depends not only on building the youngest generations’ communication abilities — it requires building the entire organization’s ability to communicate across these divides.
Leadership and Followership… Both Matter
Posted On June 4, 2024 BY Dean Brenner
Everyone always wants to talk about leadership. Every organization is obsessed with training its leaders, present and future. And many professionals invest in developing their own leadership skills. Important stuff, and I am not suggesting those are bad things to focus on. But leadership is only one part of the equation for a successful organization. […]
The Most Important Professional “Credential”
Posted On May 20, 2024 BY Dean Brenner
I spoke at a professional networking group last week, with a room full of CIOs and IT Leaders. It was a wonderful event, with tons of great questions, stories and discussions. But one story really resonated with me, and I have not stopped thinking about it since. One of the leaders in the room took […]
Simple Advice: Bring Positivity, Every Day
Posted On April 16, 2024 BY Dean Brenner
Keeping your energy level up all the time is hard. We all get tired. We all get frustrated. We all get sick of our work/colleagues/friends/selves. And when we are any of these things, our productivity suffers. One of the best quotes I have ever heard (well… more of an attitude than a quote) is that “positivity […]
“Changing” Gen Z Starts With Us
Posted On April 10, 2024 BY Kendra Raguckas
This post was written by Kendra Raguckas, Senior Director of Learning at The Latimer Group. We hear many of our senior executive clients say, over and over, that their Gen Z employees are lacking certain critical communication skills that are required for business success. We get asked all the time to help bridge this gap, and […]
4 Questions to Ask for Effective Problem Solving
Posted On March 8, 2024 BY Dean Brenner
In so many organizations, we see discussions around problem solving go wrong. In order for an organization to be effective at solving problems, there has to be a framework of questions that will lead towards full alignment on the issue. Once we have that alignment, then we can have a serious conversation around legitimate solutions. And […]
The Most Difficult Thing for a Leader to Change
Posted On February 29, 2024 BY Dean Brenner
Clients of The Latimer Group have heard me say, many times, that the hardest thing for any organizational leader to do is to change the way his or her people actually behave. If you want to reinvent your organization, you can add or subtract business units, product lines, services, locations, etc, etc, etc. You can make yourself […]
5 Truths About Workplace Communication
Posted On February 25, 2024 BY Dean Brenner
In a recent workshop, one participant asked a series of questions about how broad the application of the content we were teaching in the course actually was. I answered in a very “Latimer way,” by saying that our model applies to all forms of workplace communication: meetings, conference calls, presentations, email exchanges, etc. As I […]
The Distinction Between Influence and Authority
Posted On February 6, 2024 BY Dean Brenner
There are two ways we can get people to do what we want or need them to do: because we have influence over them, or because we have authority over them. We can have influence without authority, and we can have authority without influence. Influence comes from respect, collaboration, and credibility. Authority comes from title and your […]