The Executive Strategist | Eric Douglas | Leadership Development | Strategic Planning | Board Governance | Change Management: Recent Episodes
Leading Resources, Inc.
Eric Douglas is an executive strategist who works closely with high-level leaders to move their businesses and organizations toward higher levels of success. He specializes in helping clients achieve strategic clarity, manage change effectively, and build a strong leadership culture.
Not every decision will be made flawlessly if you follow these three steps. There are many judgment calls to make along the way. I am suggesting, however, that all flawless decisions must include these three steps.
This podcast explores strategies leaders and managers can use to regularly sharpen the organization’s focus.
This podcast explores how to create a leadership culture, where everyone runs it like they own it.
Many executives make the mistake of asking high-level executives to lead the innovation charge. But fueling local invention will have greater success.
This podcast explores the four major decision-making styles. Knowing your style can give you more insight into why you make the decisions you do and help you to improve your decisions.
This podcast is explains why building a customer-centric organization can improve nearly every aspect of a company’s performance while keeping everyone else happy too.
This podcast describes three delegation types that can give leaders more peace of mind and provide employees with a clear set of expectations.
This podcast explains why humility is such a major influencer in a leader's ongoing success. It’s never too late to start practicing humility. Start with these three steps.
This podcasts shows how to recognize—and avoid— two common ineffective leadership styles.
Leaders must work to create an environment that consistently fosters innovation. Focus on implementing the following techniques to light the spark of innovation in your employees.
Core values have the power to drastically improve your company’s culture. They also have the power to foster cynicism. It all depends on how you treat them.
This podcast is for leaders who want to understand the six principles of successful strategic positioning. It ensures that leaders are asking the right questions about the overall goals of the company, its business model, and the value that the company creates. Research has shown that companies that follow these six fundamental principles establish and maintain a distinctive strategic position.
This podcast discusses the link between clear core values and higher performance. Aligning people around core values is the first thing leaders must do. It is the framework that enables you to start moving at light speed.
This podcast describes a process for resolving both organizational and personal conflicts. By following this map, you will be able to identify the kind of conflict you encounter, determine your role in it, and figure out the shortest, easiest path to resolving the conflict. Both individuals and groups can use this tool.
Meetings consume thousands of dollars each year – in some organizations, hundreds of thousands of dollars. In fact, studies have shown that meetings are the single largest cost center for many organizations. This podcast is on how to manage meetings effectively.
This podcast discusses the two types of conflict and how to navigate these issues at work.
Learning loops are a process of sharing performance information with people and empowering them to make the changes needed to improve performance. They are similar to feedback loops except they are deliberately designed to achieve organizational change at maximum speed. It means giving the right people the right information at the right time – and sparking their creativity and innovation.
One can view an individual’s professional development as having a life cycle. The cycle begins when a person starts working – and continues as long as the employee remains with an organization. In high performing organizations, people are aware of this life cycle and commit to ensuring that everyone is engaged in it.
This podcast describes how to use strategy teams to plan and implement specific strategies for your organization. Through the effective use of strategy teams, leadership can engage those who will be affected by a strategy in planning and implementation. This helps assure the success of the strategy and helps build higher performing organizations.
This podcast lays out three stages of Board evolution and identifies the characteristic behaviors of each stage. This can apply to public agencies, city councils, non-profits, and co-ops. Board members can use this knowledge to help clarify their role and adapt the Board’s focus accordingly.