Creating a Motivating Work Environment

By S. Chris Edmonds / October 24, 2011 / 4 Comments

The Ken Blanchard Companies is a research-based firm. Blanchard comes up with all kinds of cool ideas, hypotheses, and strategies – but only those ideas that are tested in real world […]

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Managing "Retired On Active Duty" Employees

By S. Chris Edmonds / October 17, 2011 / Comments Off on Managing "Retired On Active Duty" Employees

(Chris’ video of this blog post was featured on Blanchard’s Leadership Livecast on January 25, 2012.) At a recent leadership training session, some of the managers and supervisors taking the […]

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Lead from Your Heart, Intentionally

By S. Chris Edmonds / October 10, 2011 / 6 Comments

I reflect regularly on my best bosses. I analyze how they took widely varying players with differing skill sets, experiences, and personalities and helped each of us genuinely contribute while […]

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Does Your Team Have a Healthy "Locker Room"?

By S. Chris Edmonds / October 3, 2011 / 2 Comments

For USA Major League Baseball fans, Wednesday night, September 28, goes down in sports history as the date of two of the biggest baseball team collapses ever. The Boston Red Sox […]

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What's Your Leadership Philosophy?

By S. Chris Edmonds / September 26, 2011 / 4 Comments

I’m working with a client to bring Blanchard’s new Servant Leadership program into their organization’s culture. There are a lot of really good things in place in this organization, AND, […]

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Courageous Career Coaching, Updated

By S. Chris Edmonds / September 19, 2011 / Comments Off on Courageous Career Coaching, Updated

This past week I enjoyed co-facilitating Blanchard’s new Servant Leadership Immersion program (which I co-authored) with Ken & Margie Blanchard in Rancho Bernardo, CA. Margie, the director of Blanchard’s Office […]

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