Leadership Foundry

According to a recent HBR article, 69% of employees said they are not reaching their potential. When leaders help direct reports build a leadership growth strategy, it creates ownership, increases engagement, and frees leaders to work more on the business rather than working in it. One important note: this shouldn’t be solely leader-driven. Delegate the first draft of the plan to your direct report. Your role as a leader isn’t to own their development plan… it’s to empower, guide, and support it. ________________ My Leadership Foundry is a leadership development firm focused on practical, hands-on work that helps leaders and teams perform at a higher level. We partner with organizations to develop executives, high potentials and leadership cohorts through coaching, workshops and customized leadership development experiences. What makes our work different is that you work directly with our founders, Brandon Smith and Randy Hain, who bring more than 50 years of combined experience into every engagement. If you’re looking for in-person leadership development strategies and hands-on work with your leaders in the Atlanta area, reach out. We’d love to help.

“We are typically so busy and rushing from meeting to meeting that we don’t feel we have the time to invest in a meaningful conversation that deviates from the business at hand. What a missed opportunity! We often fail to learn about how our colleagues and team members are really doing, especially during difficult times when anxiety at work is widely reported to be at or near an all-time high, with roughly 72% to 83% of employees reporting significant workplace stress.” Are you missing an opportunity to connect with your team on a deeper level? Randy Hain offers essential insight in today’s article: https://lnkd.in/e8Q8a5SZ

Memorial Day reminds us that leadership is not about position or power. It’s about sacrifice, service, and putting others before yourself. Today, we remember and honor those who led with courage and gave everything for something greater than themselves.

Today we honor all those brave men and women who sacrificed their lives in defense of our country and for freedom around the world. This Memorial Day, let us remember we owe them a great debt and our sincere gratitude. "The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we—in a less final, less heroic way—be willing to give of ourselves." - President Ronald Reagan #MemorialDay #gratitude #honorthefallen

Check out the insightful new post from our co-founder Randy Hain that is a response to a thought-provoking question he recently received...check it out!