There’s a question worth asking in any organization right now: have we entered the post-conversation era of work? It’s not hypothetical. Most of us have watched a Teams or Slack thread become far more complicated than the issue it was meant to solve. Somewhere along the way, “Can we hop on a quick call?” stopped […]
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Summer distractions are everywhere – schools out, the beach beckons, and many of our peers are off on vacations. Heck, as I write this, I’m watching my dog joyfully romp around in a lake, and I can’t help but smile at her goofiness. But let’s not forget, there’s work to be done! If you can’t
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We’re excited to share an important update with you. HAVEN has been acquired by Tidemark Talent Solutions. Since founding Haven a decade ago, we’ve been focused on one thing: igniting exceptional client performance. That remains our true north and this partnership gives us more ways to deliver on it. You know how seriously we take
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If you were a professional musician, you’d spend the vast majority of your time practicing and only a fraction performing. The same is true for athletes, actors, and surgeons. In most high-performance professions, the ratio is heavily weighted toward rehearsal. Leadership often works in reverse. Many leaders spend very little time practicing the interactions that matter most, opting instead to wing it
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It sounds like a rom-com opening. Unfortunately, it’s a pattern we’ve all experienced at work. The person you’re asked to spearhead a project with becomes a real stick in the mud. Maybe their input is delaying progress, or they’re lacking the creativity the work requires. Maybe you feel like they’re doing the bare minimum or
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A few weeks before Christmas in the US, HBO bought the rights to a Canadian adaptation of the romance novel Heated Rivalry. They did almost no promotion — there was no time — and yet this show was quickly everywhere. It spread because people talked about it. Viewers were posting clips, imploring their friends to
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For years, leadership potential revealed itself in the work; not just in the outcomes but in how someone got there. You could see it in how they framed a messy problem, how they worked through imperfect data, how they stayed steady when things got murky. You could watch their reasoning unfold in real time. You
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Coaching is an investment in individual leaders. That investment may also come into direct conflict with your organizational system. Coaching works best when the organization can support the work it generates – when insight, experimentation, and behavior change are supported rather than quietly absorbed by the individual. Organizational support is what makes coaching usable, visible,
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In the early 2000s, leadership development meant a three-day, in-person program. By 2020, we’d gone fully virtual—still classroom-based, just online, with a few learning licenses sprinkled in. Fast-forward to late 2024, when we asked leaders where they most often turned for learning… It was reels, podcasts, and audiobooks—consumed through AirPods and phones, anytime, anywhere. So how
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One of the first questions we ask a new coachee is simple: What constructive feedback have you received recently? When the answer is “none,” that, in itself, is feedback. A lack of input often signals a leadership gap. Getting others to share feedback with you isn’t passive—it’s an active leadership skill. Like any other skill,
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