Beyond Consulting – A new focus for my blog
In September I took a full-time position in the corporate office of a large retail organization. It has been a big adjustment going from consultant to employee. There are positives and negatives and right now the positives far out weigh the negatives. Today I was thinking about my blogs and how delinquent I have been for the past few months. I finally realized how I can use this blog platform. I want to write about leading from the inside and what I see as the challenges for leaders in an organization.
As a consultant, I usually show up with my wisdom and experience hoping to inspire people in their leadership. It was that ‘dropping in’ that was starting to bother me. I know that I can do a great training session in an organization and people will generally respond that it exceeded their expectations (top box!). However, I didn’t ever have the opportunity to do any formal evaluations on transfer of learning. If my experience is universal once participants are back at their desk my good intentions are often on the shelf with the binder.
Working in a system isn’t simple. It isn’t even complicated. As written about in Getting to Maybe, it is complex. There are many factors impacting leaders and actually keeping them from being the leaders they want to be. I want to use this blog to talk about my leadership journey within an organization over the next year. I am planning to do a monthly post highlighting the things I am learning on the inside.
