Impeccable timing! Several months ago I scheduled a peer group session with my marketing executives and invited guest Aaron Burnett with Wheelhouse Search to discuss web trends. And then, in the midst of migrating to Windows 8 and just a few weeks before our meeting I find out that the web site my daughter’s High […]

How often in your career as an HR executive have you worked with your “dream CEO?” My guess is that the answer for many might be infrequently or rare. CEOs nowadays are moving a mile a minute and have a lot of conflicting demands. Many are still stuck in the “command and control” mindset of […]

Leadership Exercises At this leadership exercises session this group of HR executives explored a number of interesting questions such as: • How is social media changing the context for leadership to an “open leadership” model that drives change? (Charlene Li in “Open Leadership” describes the characteristics of Open Leadership as “Having the confidence and humility […]

So what are marketing executives pondering upon when they think about market research. Here is a sampler of market research pitfalls, challenges and opportunities that created engaged conversation at today’s marketing executive peer group session. • Pitfall:One of the problems we have as marketers is that we some times fall into the trap of thinking […]

This session with my group of HR executives generated discussion and sharing in response to many of the questions we co-created prior to meeting. My sense is that we had most energy around presenting issues in executive coaching, positioning of coaching initiatives and assignments, and the emergence of more group coaching. There was also excitement […]

I can feel myself getting excited about an upcoming meeting with my group of peer HR executives this Friday. For the last month or so we have been co-creating a list of powerful questions to explore together around executive coaching. See below what we have come up with and add your own (before Friday)! I […]

Last week we had a session on “Keeping Your Brand Authentic: Is It All About Relationships? As always, this group of executives had a truly authentic dialogue that sprang from a number of powerful questions covering a spectrum. For example, we discussed how we all deal with change, we explored whether marketing at the core […]

In a recent Marketing Executive Roundtable meeting members ended up engaging in an authentic discussion around “the power of purpose.” Cathy Cooper, VP of Marketing with Washington Federal shares her takeaways below. We spend our days considering CPCs, KPIs and the psychographic profiles of the Millennials or Baby Boomers that make up our customer base. […]

“I need an anti-depressant…confusion and overwhelm!” This group of HR executives sighed in unison as they realized they were in good company. Nothing like a little joint suffering – being an HR leader in this environment can easily feel loney and overwhelming. One of the important takeaways from this session was simply validation: “I am […]

Since it’s inception in 1996, the purpose of the HR Executive Forum peer group has been to “build community for leaders” and help members grow professionally and personally with the ultimate goal of advancing high-performance people strategies in their organizations and preparing themselves for what’s next. The HR Executive Forum is a place for our […]