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Eric Douglas is the senior partner and founder of Leading Resources Inc., a consulting firm that focuses on developing high-performing organizations. For more than 20 years, Eric has successfully helped a wide array of government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporations achieve breakthroughs in performance. His new book The Leadership Equation helps leaders achieve strategic clarity, manage change effectively, and build a leadership culture.

New Research Underscores the Importance of Trust

My book The Leadership Equation explained why trust is so important to building high-performing organizations. It explained how our brain chemistry is hard-wired to look for signals that we trust one another.

The Leadership Pipeline: Developing Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

We are excited to share this informative webinar with you, presented by our senior consultants at Leading Resources Inc. For the last 20 years, we have focused on developing leaders and leading organizations. Our firm’s clients include large and small public agencies and departments, including the California State Auditor, CalPERS, and California’s Medi-Cal program. Some of the …

How Our Views of History Influence Our Ability to Shape the Future

A colleague of mine passed along an article recently titled, “History and Organizational Change.” Written by two scholars in Canada, Roy Suddab and William M. Foster, their argument is…

Using Values to Decentralize Decision-Making

One of the greatest benefits of developing a framework of core values is that decision making can be decentralized.

Zeroing In On Your Own Communication Style

“A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other.” – Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities Understanding your style of communicating would be relatively easy if you limited yourself to one of the four basic styles. However, depending on the situation, you …

Team Operating Principles

These “rules of engagement” or “operating principles” can go a long way toward minimizing team conflicts and helping people build trust.

Four Basic Communication Styles (Video Explanations)

When you take the Communication Styles Profile, the first payoff is discovering the styles of communicating you use most often – Director, Expresser, Thinker, and Harmonizer. We tend to use two of these styles more than the others. But we have within ourselves the ability to use any of these styles in different situations. Directors …

The Benefits of Onboard Coaching: Assuring the Success of New Executives

One of the most valuable ways to assure high levels of success for leaders in your organization is to create an effective onboard coaching experience.

Personality Theory

Anthropology helps answer the question, “where did our communication styles come from?”

Where Do Communication Styles Come From?

Our research has shown that there are four basic styles of communicating. These styles affect all of our communications with other people.

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