360: Getting leaders feedback from all angles
Our clients often ask for recommendations on what they can do to identify individual professional development possibilities and priorities. WhileREAD MORE
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Grip trip: Four steps for changing problematic behaviors
While Kenning coaches do sometimes help our clients learn how to invent and adopt entirely new behavior patterns, we oftenREAD MORE
Three questions for our newest partner
Our valued Kenning associate, Jennifer Lachance, recently was elected as a partner in our firm. Jen brings to us terrificREAD MORE
Self-reflective questions for growing forward (video)
Kenning founding partner Mark Ledden recently appeared on Brandon Smith’s The Workplace Therapist webcast. Watch and listen here as theyREAD MORE
Identifying the levers that drive culture change
Kenning’s 3D Culture process: Development phase This is the final installment of a three-part series of articles describing Kenning’s 3DREAD MORE
Complexity problems, and what healthcare leaders can do about them
Healthcare is a difficult sector. This isn’t news. But what may not be well understood is the kind of leadershipREAD MORE
Designing a healthy culture
Kenning’s 3D Culture Process: Design Phase In the first installment of this three-part series of articles describing Kenning’s 3D CultureREAD MORE
Common denominator: Three kinds of self orientation
The math of David Maister’s Trust Equation[1] is designed to make a simple point: of the four components of trust,READ MORE
How you grow at work…and why coaching matters
Regardless of your job or your tenure, it’s likely that you aspire to grow and develop. Learning new skills, feelingREAD MORE
How healthy is your organization’s culture?
Kenning’s 3D Culture Process: Diagnostic Phase “Before anything else, we want to help you assess where your organization’s culture reallyREAD MORE
A case for coaching: It’s about time
In our coaching work, we at Kenning often see dramatic personal transformations unlocked by seemingly obvious changes. For instance, IREAD MORE
A case for coaching: What’s in your wallet?
Understanding the currency you trade in as a path to transformational growth I recently had a discussion with a client,READ MORE
If you want a culture like a Special Operations Unit, you have to be deliberate
The Rangers have the Ranger Creed The Navy SEALs have the Navy SEAL Creed The Army has the Soldier’sREAD MORE
Pick the assessment best suited to the kind of change you want to make
Some psychological and psychometric assessments are designed to tell you who you are so that you can figure out howREAD MORE
Resiliency in business is like a bar fight
Once, when I was preparing for a combat deployment, I had the privilege of working with a trainer named TonyREAD MORE
Prodromos: A look at good leadership
The question is important, persistent and almost unanswerable – what is a good leader? We all struggle with the answer,READ MORE
The case for culture statements
For decades, most well-established organizations have gone through the process of developing mission and vision statements to clarify their purpose,READ MORE
Three questions for two new Kenning partners
Two valued associates of Kenning, Annie Howell and Laurie Burkland Waller, recently have been elected as partners in our firm.READ MORE
Leadership for the Unknown
Kenning is proud to announce partner JC Glick’s new book A Light in the Darkness: Leadership Development for the UnknownREAD MORE
Don’t prioritize capability over capacity
The future workplace demands capacity, not capability. Do you know the difference? The word “capable” comes from the Latin wordREAD MORE
See it, own it, and take action
Transformation begins with noticing. Kenning’s core coaching approach emphasizes iterative cycles of observation and experimentation – engendering self learning andREAD MORE
What is a coaching culture?
The benefits of coaching are multiplied when the whole organization gets on board Working with an executive coach may, once uponREAD MORE
Supporting women at work
When high performing women employees struggle to find a fit When women move along in their careers, many of them – despiteREAD MORE
Do adults actually change?
An academic debate leads us to ponder the value of the either/or debate We tend to like “this or that” distinctions becauseREAD MORE
Shame as a motivator
Shame may have a powerful effect on behavior, but it isn’t a sound foundation for personal or organizational growth I wasREAD MORE
The power of a culture statement
A culture statement helps colleagues make day-to-day choices that are grounded in organizational values Organizations are collections of people. EverythingREAD MORE
Leaders who listen
Recently, I saw a poster like this one in the hallway of an elementary school, and I was pleasantly surprisedREAD MORE
Learning in action
Kenning’s work is informed by the principle that adults learn by doing. And more doing. And then doing some more.READ MORE
The Birkman Method
Optimize engagement and team performance by increasing your leadership versatility Leadership versatility is not just a competitive advantage, it has becomeREAD MORE
Your organization is a system
Frustrated by intractable problems at work? Maybe the art and science of systems thinking can reframe the challenge The fundamental complexity ofREAD MORE