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What Top Executive Coaches Are Teaching About Leadership in 2025

by Dean Hallett|18 September 202517 September 2025|Authentic Leadership, Authenticity, C-Suite Coaching, Collaboration, Culture, Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Middle Management Development, Middle Management Leadership Training, Middle Management Training Courses, Middle Management Training Programs

In fast-paced cities where innovation and competition intersect, leadership is evolving. Executive coaches aren’t just focused on boardroom wisdom anymore. They’re in the trenches with leaders, embedding coaching into daily routines, leveraging tech, and focusing on emotional intelligence, presence, and...

Emotional Intelligence Is the Leadership Superpower No One Talks About

by Dean Hallett|11 September 202511 September 2025|Authentic Leadership, Authenticity, C-Suite Coaching, Collaboration, Culture, Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Middle Management Development, Middle Management Leadership Training, Middle Management Training Courses, Middle Management Training Programs

Leadership is often measured by results: profit margins, growth metrics, and performance benchmarks. But beneath the numbers lies a quieter, less quantifiable trait that distinguishes exceptional leaders from merely competent ones: emotional intelligence (EQ). While rarely featured in boardroom agendas,...

Why Great Leaders Think Like Chess Players, Not Gamblers

by Dean Hallett|04 September 202506 October 2025|Authentic Leadership, Authenticity, C-Suite Coaching, Collaboration, Culture, Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Leadership Development, Middle Management Development, Middle Management Leadership Training, Middle Management Training Courses, Middle Management Training Programs

Leadership is often portrayed as a high-stakes game: fast decisions, bold risks, and big payoffs. But the best leaders don’t leave success to chance. They don’t rely on luck, gut instinct, or one big move to get ahead. Instead, great...

The Johari Window: A Simple (And Extremely Useful) Model

by Dean Hallett|31 March 202131 March 2021|Leadership Development, Middle Management Development, Middle Management Leadership Training, Middle Management Training Courses

When we're talking about expressing authenticity and exchanging feedback with others, we find great value in utilizing the Johari Window. In short, the Johari Window is a map that supports individual self-awareness, and awareness of others. Awareness of self and...

Middle Management Leadership KPIs: Tracking Improvement

by Dean Hallett|09 October 202023 September 2025|Middle Management Leadership Training

What are the key performance indicators (KPIs) of middle management leadership? How do you tell if a leadership development program works? This can be a very difficult thing to do, because on the one hand we have the old adage:...

Middle Management Training: Advantages and Disadvantages

by Dean Hallett|03 October 202006 October 2025|Middle Management Leadership Training

You are researching different training and development options for your managers. You want to know the advantages and disadvantages. The advantages seem more clear. So what is the downside of training your managers? Frankly speaking, we at Hallett Leadership don’t...

Middle Management Leadership: Building Creative Teams

by Dean Hallett|30 September 202006 October 2025|Middle Management Leadership Training

How does middle management leadership go about building creative teams? What, exactly, can a manager do to prepare a team for creativity and exceptional achievement? A manager asking this question is usually starting from one of two possible starting conditions:...

Middle Management Excellence: What It Looks Like

by Dean Hallett|13 August 202006 October 2025|Middle Management Development, Middle Management Leadership Training

The most effective managers elicit the key talents and capabilities of the people on their teams, instead of doing all the work themselves. Therefore, any conversation about middle management excellence should be approached as a conversation about how the manager...

Middle Manager As Innovator: How Managers Led A Studio-wide Reinvention

by Dean Hallett|11 August 202023 November 2024|Middle Management Development, Middle Management Leadership Training

We have frequently heard senior leaders express a wish that their workforce was more “entrepreneurial” and “innovative.” That their people more proactively sought out solutions to problems, established better processes for working together, and contributed in a robustly collaborative culture....

Middle Management Development Activities: 4 To Consider

by Dean Hallett|07 August 202006 October 2025|Middle Management Development, Middle Management Leadership Training

Four key benchmarks that enter into developing your managers as high performance leaders include: connecting them as a team, providing them with insights on their behavioral styles, structuring continual opportunities for feedback, and building out their presentation and presence skills....

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