Define Career Management Path: Learn More About Marcia Zidle Marcia Zidle, a certified career strategist and business coach, works with high-potential, high-impact executives, managers, and professionals to advance their careers and grow their leadership capabilities. Marcia, CEO of, Leaders At All Levels, has over 25 years of leadership, operations, and consulting experience with businesses as …

Purpose of this Supervision Blog Supervision is the activities carried out by supervisors to oversee the productivity and progress of employees who report directly to the supervisors. For example Chief executive officers supervise those who report directly to the chief executives Middle-managers supervise first-level supervisors First-level supervisors supervise entry-level employees Supervision is a management activity …

We’re Carter McNamara and Marcia Zidle, co-hosts of this blog. You can read more about us next to our pictures in the sidebar. This blog will be about various aspects of supervision, and will focus especially on practical tips and tools in posts published at least once a week, including posts from guest writers. You …

Challenging Mental Models: Part 3 of Consultants’ Growth (See Part 2 of 3) Warren Bennis taught me to ask three questions: What’s So? So What? What Now?” How we handle uncertainty and how we deal with it personally is critical in how we manage change. Given the uncertainty and complexity in our organizations, dealing with …

What would happen if this discussion were taken a step forward and the debate on blame shifted to a discussion using the following, "Provide one example of how you have improved learning transfer in a current or previous role? What was the role and what did you do?"

Twitter and Facebook lead the way following massive earthquake Social media has been at the forefront of crisis communications during every disaster in recent memory, and this trend has continued in the aftermath of the massive earthquake in Japan. In an article for Mashable.com, Sarah Kessler described the various ways people are getting connected: Google …

Greetings, After completing my A-Z blogs on Spirituality at Work, I would like to build on this example by highlighting examples of people living out their spirituality. I’ll be writing another A-Z blog series, this time highlighting case studies of how people live out their spirituality at work and home. For example, for the letter …

In the group of attendees for a recent class in Major Gifts Fundraising was a person identifying herself as a consultant, a member of a fundraising-consulting firm, who was shortly to be working with a client organization in the creation of a major gifts program. This started me thinking. Who/what is a fundraising/development consultant?? My …

there was a debate for years around whether Project Management is an art or a science. The truth is that neither are correct on their own – it is both. Successful project managers (with a track record of more than one project) typically employ the science stuff (core PM concepts), sometimes religiously. They also harbor …

The events of last week remind us that VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity) lives just under our radar screen and can catapult us from the status quo into radical change instantly. Like the 2008 economic crisis, events of this magnitude create unavoidable systemic strain that threaten to tear organizations, even countries, apart. As leaders, we …