Leaders: Are you Building a “Bridge to Nowhere?”

Posted on May 16, 2012 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

Many people have heard of the infamous “bridge to nowhere”  in Alaska that became a veritable hockey puck in the 2008 U.S. presidential election and occasionally reemerges in the current election cycle. In fact one Republican candidate used the cliché to attack another candidate in the February 22nd debate in Arizona. Most people hear the [...]

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Leadership Competencies: Creating Your Word Cloud

Posted on April 23, 2012 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

Do you find you are becoming an expert of many things outside of your primary career? Make your own leadership competency cloud. What is your “Leadership Competencies Word Cloud?” Most readers are now scratching their collective heads as they are wondering what I am writing about in this article. To understand where I am going [...]

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Leaders: Strategy is Static, But Vision is Viral

Posted on April 11, 2012 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

What is more important for a true leader to understand, use, and spread: Tactility or Vision? A recent article by Mark Federman on Linked 2 Leadership titled “Honest Leadership: The End of “Vision” drew my attention. At the outset, it must be said that he introduced me to a new dimension of strategy planning…that of tactility. Tactility [...]

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On Leadership, Penn State, and an Ounce of Prevention

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

Preventing Childhood Sexual Abuse in the Workplace: An Ounce of Prevention… For the last couple of weeks the sports news, and all of the news for that matter, has been saturated with the Penn State University child sex abuse scandal with Jerry Sandusky at the center. The winds of scandal have already taken their toll with the terminations of [...]

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On Leadership and the Promise of Coaching

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

In the last twenty years a new profession of coaching burst upon the scene. From the local workout gym to the main street workplace; from the boardwalk to the boardroom, professional coaching has made inroads in many facets of life. In 1999 Frederic M. Hudson said this in The Handbook of Coaching: “Adult coaching is [...]

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Finding the Leader Within

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

A friend of mine is a successful businessman and entrepreneur who also serves as a board member of a non-profit community organization. On the board, Rob (not his real name) often offers insightful comments and good advice that matches his good business sense. Yet when asked to serve as a board officer, Rob quotes the [...]

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Change Your Values…Tame Your Gremlins

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Tom Cocklereece, DMin, LBCT

Have you ever found yourself experiencing a challenge or failure that had a déjà vu feeling as if you have been here before? Then there is the realization that yes, you have repeated some of the same self-defeating behaviors that achieved a similar unpleasant result before. I Call Do-Over Call it DNA, mental loops, or [...]

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