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Receiving the Gift of Feedback

Earlier this month, I attended the Leadership Circle ProfileTM certification. The Leadership Circle ProfileTM is a robust 360° feedback tool often used with Nebo clients, which offers a leader great insight into how their current thought processes and behaviors impact their overall leadership effectiveness.

Facebook: A Case Study on Leadership, Brand & Trust

Building a brand and gaining the trust of customers is one of the hardest things to do, yet that trust is also easy to lose; as Warren Buffet once said: “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”

Mindfulness is not a fad

Is Mindfulness a Fad? Take a moment to think about this question: What do the following companies all have in common?

Lessons from the Mountaintop

Reflecting on Martin Luther King Jr.’s Legacy Today is my birthday. I’m thinking about Martin Luther King, Jr., who was assassinated the day I turned two years old. Every year I use this coincidence of dates to reflect on MLK’s contributions to the world and what was lost when he was killed at 39. I never run out of lessons to learn.

Values-Based Recognition

Unpacking the Study A recent study called Bringing More Humanity to Recognition, Performance, and Life at Work by Globoforce found that workers are looking for a sense of meaning at work, even more so than salary and benefits. When asked, “What makes you stay at your company?”:

Kate Ebner Partners with The Performance Institute

Kate Ebner, Founding Director of the Institute for Transformational Leadership at Georgetown University and founder of The Nebo Company, will participate on Thursday, March 8th in a collaborative research-based Executive Briefing on Workforce Optimization in the federal government in partnership with The Performance Institute. This session will focus […]

The Growth Mindset and the ‘Era of Amazon’

Amazon had a big year in 2017. With its $13.4 billion acquisition of Whole Foods Markets; fierce competition for its new HQ2 and accompanying promise of 50,000 new jobs; reaching $500b in market capitalization, rivaling Facebook, Google, and Apple, and potential to reach $1 trillion in the next year; capturing almost 50% of U.S. online retail sales and […]

How the Simple Act of Gratitude Can Improve Your Leadership

We know that a good leader needs to remain cool, calm, and collected to handle the stress of a fast-paced working world. People reach towards different things to maintain their resiliency at work: spending time with family, exercise, setting aside time for hobbies. Yet, research suggests that the simplest way to feeling happier, healthier, and prepared […]

Do you have analysis paralysis about choosing your coach?

As the Director of Coaching Services at Nebo, I interview leaders and recommend coach matches based on an individual’s specific goals and aspirations. But when it comes time for a leader to select a coach, leaders will often “disappear.” So, what makes this choice so hard?