Exploring The Heart of Human Achievement: Six Simple Truths

Learn the six enduring leadership principles that will help aspiring leaders become more effective and respected along their journey.

Read Publication

2024 HR/L&D Trends Survey: Navigating the High-Expectation Work Environment

This year’s survey paints a picture of organizations taking experimental steps during a time of accelerated change.

Read Publication

3 Heart-Centered Principles of Leadership

The best leaders get their egos out of the way and become servant leaders who treat people with love and respect says leadership expert Ken Blanchard.

Read Article

Blanchard Community: where leaders come to grow

Join Today

Four Strategies for Listening so that People Feel Heard

Use these four communication skills to determine a person's levels of competence and commitment at a task. Once you have a better understanding of these qualities, you can lead situationally!

Read Article

Fueling Pharma's Future: The Pivotal Role of Inspired Leadership

The pharmaceutical industry faces many challenges such as fierce competition for talent, high turnover rates, and the significant cost of employee replacement.

Read Publication

The Role of Strategic and Operational Leadership Skills: How and When to Use in a Government Setting

Private sector and public sector organizations have three common organizational goals, which must be met for leadership to be labeled effective.

Read Publication

Are You a Directive or Supportive Leader?

Forty years of Blanchard research has proven that the best leadership style is the one that matches the developmental needs of the person you’re working with.

Read Publication

SLII. Why a Situational Approach to Leadership Makes All the Difference

This study investigates the effectiveness of the four leadership styles of the SLII model, which evolved from initiating structure and consideration.

Read Publication

A Head and Heart Approach to Next-Generation Leadership

Ken Blanchard and Scott Blanchard share what’s changed and what’s stayed the same when it comes to focusing people’s energy and efforts toward a shared goal.

Read Article

3 Conversations Leaders Need to Master

Learn how to improve the quality and quantity of conversations taking place throughout your organization.

View On-Demand Webinar

Goal Setting to Improve Performance: 4 Best Practices

Goal setting drives performance in the workplace. Collaborate, create stretch goals, give feedback on performance, and hold quarterly check-ins says Doug Glener.

Read Article

Leading with Empathy

People want an empathetic leader. Many managers strive to be one. But ask someone to define the term, and you’re likely to be met with silence. Let’s start with the definition. According to...

Read Article

Core Skills Every Manager Should Master

Making the transition from being an individual contributor to a manager can be a dramatic shift.

Read Publication

Managing the Hybrid Work Experience

Organizations and their team members can successfully navigate the unique challenges of a hybrid work environment by focusing on the right strategies says virtual work expert John Hester.

Read Article

Make Career Conversations a Regular Agenda Item in One-on-Ones

Why would anyone want to be a career builder when they risk losing the people they develop? It’s a provocative question many leaders answer by not developing their people. But this strategy...

Read Article

Developing Your Leadership Point of View

Leaders are not robots; they are human beings with values and worldviews shaped by their own experiences. In the best leaders these lead to a personal leadership philosophy—a leadership point of view.

Read Article

The No-Os of Leadership with Mike Easley

Mike Easley explains why self-awareness and empathy are crucial for anyone aspiring to be a leader—especially a leader worth following.

Read Article

Meeting the Quota Challenge: Critical Skills Every Sales Manager Needs to Excel

Learn Blanchard’s point of view on solving the problem of the struggling sales manager through developing their leadership skills

Read Publication

Turning New Hires into Top Performers... Quickly

Hiring and retaining workers is the defining challenge as we move nearer to the post-pandemic workplace.

Read Publication

Building Resilience in Times of Crisis

As we all adjust to a changing landscape and a new normal in our personal and professional lives, it is imperative that we each develop an increased capacity to thrive in the face of adversity.

Read Publication

Leadership Skills Resources