Michelle Randall went from backpacking in Southeast Asia to teaching Fortune 500 executives how to boost their businesses on an international scale.Her company, Enriching Leadership International, has a client list that includes IBM (IBM), Kaiser Permanente and Deutsche Telekom.
One of her goal-achieving secrets: her business-benchmarking group. At least twice a year, Randall gets together with others in her industry to talk success, down to the decimal point.
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“An international virtual community of small consulting firms has formed a network to share their expertise and win business.” read more
“When things do turn around, the leaders who do this have created a more trusted team than ever before…” read more
“It takes culturally agile leadership in order to meet people where they’re at in all their humanity – whether squeaky clean hero or starry-eyed addict”…. read more
While getting employees to dress better at work, or mandating fashion rules, may seem like good solutions to some, Michelle Randall, the principal of Enriching Leadership International, a global consulting and executive coaching firm, sees these actions as signs of lazy management… Read more
Like unclear resolutions, plans that are too strict will also be too hard to accomplish. Executive coach Michelle Randall warns against making inflexible resolutions. Read more
Michelle Randall, who runs Enriching Leadership International, a Silicon Valley Management Consultancy, “size is a male obsession, and a less-relevant measure for women’s success. Fulfillment may be harder to measure, but it’s far more appropriate…” Read more
“Many companies espouse their strong cultures, but, interestingly, they’re unable to point to why they believe this, to any evidence that the culture is indeed “strong” or that the culture has any measurable impact on the company’s overall mission, vision, values or objectives.”
“Michelle Randall, principal of Enriching Leadership International, a global executive coaching and consulting firm says: “The most important element in obtaining an accurate cultural assessment is to ensure that the responses obtained are honest and unfiltered.” Read more
It can be a hectic and sometimes alienating time in the workaday world, which is ironic considering how personally important this time of year is to so many people across cultures.
So, for goodness’ sake, says Michelle Randall, principal of Enriching Leadership International, a global executive coaching and consulting firm, stop with the insincere holiday wishes.
“Make heartfelt New Year wishes in the place of generically waving ‘Happy Holidays’ at co-workers. To me, it’s like the Barbie and Ken of holidays. There’s nothing there,” Randall says. “Especially when we’re talking about, for a lot of us, our most treasured family traditions. This is a deeply felt time it’s also a time to be able to share something about yourself in a heartfelt way.” Read more
In most parts of the country, it’s difficult to find a lumberyard that doesn’t sneer when you ask for green products. Yards that do stock one or two token green products have a poor selection, and there’s rarely a knowledgeable person at the counter available to answer your questions. Until now, the only other option has been “green boutiques” specializing in products that are good for the earth but cost an arm and a leg. Read more
With reverence and awe, we admire the forest primeval, with its towering boughs of green and massive columns reaching skyward. Beacons of sunlight filter through the dark and mysterious labyrinth of ancient life, giving us more and more reason to clamor to preserve its ageless beauty at almost any cost.
We are jolted back to reality when we learn that only 5% of North America’s old growth forests are still standing. Over the past decade or so, builders have come to recognize that the future of homebuilding may not necessarily continue along the same paths followed by our parents’ generation, with the systematic rape of old growth mountain tops for our immediate gain. Read more