How Leadership Kitsap Builds a Stronger Community
What if your interview process is eliminating some of your best candidates before you ever recognize their potential? Often, interviews are seen as an opportunity to identify the strongest person for the job. Yet they often measure something entirely different: a candidate's comfort level in an interview setting.Those two things are not always the same.The …
Picture a summer weekend: the ferry is delayed, the parking lot is overflowing, the restaurant is triple-seated, two servers have called in sick, the event coordinator has just quit, and a wedding rehearsal dinner starts in four hours. This is not a disaster scenario. For many hospitality managers, it is simply a Saturday in July. …
For CFOs, CEOs, Executive Directors and HR leaders, decisions about people are some of the most consequential in the business. Talent drives growth while culture shapes performance. Yet many organizations try to manage complex people challenges with limited internal capacity. Knowing when and how to bring in outside expertise can protect the business and accelerate your results. When growth outpaces …
"Stay close. Too far. Wrong choice. Good job. Good boy." These are phrases I say constantly to my two-year-old dog, Bandon. They get repeated often when we're working with our trainer, Brittany. Of importance: I said our trainer. More on that later. Bandon and I have been working with Brittany for the better part of …
You don’t need to be a golf fan to have heard of the annual professional tournament held in Augusta, GA called The Masters. This year’s edition, played every April, marked the 90th tournament in its history. Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland became only the fourth golfer ever to win it in back-to-back years. The Masters …
Every ship that clears the harbor, every building that rises from the skyline, and every component that rolls off a production line carries the mark of someone who showed up, applied their skill, and believed their work mattered. The trades have always been built on human labor and hard-earned expertise. The opportunity now is to …
The second of a two-part series on Leadership Lessons from the Seattle Seahawks’ Super Bowl season.Last month, we broke down three leadership lessons that helped propel the Seattle Seahawks to a Super Bowl championship: Process Over Results, Alignment, and “We Did Not Care.”In this second and final part, we’re not running out the clock. We’re …
There was a time when if you had strong opinions about your community, you were expected to show up.