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Why Tom Cruise Laying Into His Crew for Breaking Covid-19 Rules Is a Good Thing
ROME, ITALY – NOVEMBER 29, 2020: Actor Tom Cruise meets fans during a break from filming the movie Mission Impossible 7 – Libra, in Piazza Venezia -PHOTOGRAPH BY Ravagli/Barcroft Media via Getty ImagesSometimes it’s OK for leaders to get mad. And show it. Jeff Haden,...
Why Emotional Safety® is Essential in Sales
Why Emotional Safety® is Essential in Sales This century has had its share of crises already: September 11, 2001 — the 2008 recession — now COVID-19. What’s really important for sales in times like these? (Hint: Not revenue.) In the recent conversation I had with...
Six Moments That Can Make A Leader Out Of Anyone
It has often been remarked – including by this writer and in this space – that leaders are not just those people who find themselves in leadership positions. Just as captains of sports teams are not the only ones who make the decisions that can create the difference...
How to Show Leadership, Even If You Aren’t the Leader
Henry Evans is the co-author of “Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter,” which explores ways that you can demonstrate leadership regardless of your job title. Evans spoke about his leadership theories with Tom Fox, a guest writer for On Leadership and vice...
Pessimists Aren’t All That Bad
Most of us know that pessimists can be a challenge to deal with in the workplace. As a leader you need to manage pessimists by coaching them to see other options and helping them to reflect on the impact they have on those around them. While pessimists can be a...
Office Anger: How to Win People Over by Losing Your Temper
If you want to get angry at work, it’s better to be a man. Sexist though this sounds, it’s a finding from a recently published study conducted by psychologists at Arizona State University. Women, it seems, may have been right all along about stereotyping. An angry man...
Meet the CEO Coaches
Businessworld / India Citius, Altius, Fortius — that’s what India’s business chiefs need, and that’s what CEO trainers give The Gurus But who are these people who make the CEOs what they are or what they want to be — confident, assured, poised? Meet the CEO coaches....
Leaders Radiate Competence, Shine In Tough Moments
Everyone faces dilemmas at work. Adept execs turn quandaries into accomplishments. How they proceed: Lengthen the fuse. We all work with difficult colleagues, and “We’re conditioned to react,” said Judith Orloff, author of The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways...
Is Anger Ever Useful in a Negotiation? – BBC Interview with Henry Evans
[…] after a week in which President Trump has had some “tough” phone calls with other world leaders, we ask whether getting angry in negotiations ever works. We hear from Henry Evans, co-author of Step Up, Lead in Six Moments that Matter, who also runs the business...
Honing to Perfection
His company works with businesses and other organizations to help their top executives improve their performance. “We don’t like the word ‘coaching’ because it’s an extremely uncredentialed industry,” Evans said. “A large percentage of people calling themselves...
Henry Evans Shares Corporate Experience with SMU Cox Students
For immediate release Henry Evans Shares Corporate Experience with SMU Cox Students Dallas, TX/USA – March 11, 2014Henry Evans, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Dynamic Results, LLC, presented a seminar titled Accountability Principles for Dynamic Results on Monday,...
Henry Evans and Colm Foster on Experiential Learning
According to Henry Evans and Colm Foster, “Learning a skill is very different from studying for a test or learning how to program a spreadsheet; it is experiential. That kind of learning primarily involves practice; to change your behavior, you must actively engage in...
Why Great Leaders Get Angry–and Show It
Think about remarkably successful entrepreneurs. They’re logical. They’re rational. In the face of crisis or danger or even gross incompetence, they remain steely-eyed, focused, and on point. They don’t get angry–or at the very least they don’t show their anger....
Give Heat Like a Boss — and Take It Like a Champ
Handled poorly, criticism at the office can spur lasting tension and grudges. “But if it’s handled right, negative feedback is a gift,” says Henry Evans, co-author of Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter. Sometimes you have to dole out the pain, and sometimes you...
Five Ways to Leverage (and Love) Your Pessimists
Hi, my name is Henry Evans. I’m a five time CEO, global consultant, and a recovering optimist. Life was going really well for me. My father practiced meditation every day (82, and still practicing). Through his example and those of my teachers and mentors I learned...
Why You Should Encourage Conflict
Conflict is necessary for change; just make sure your team is fighting for the right ideas. If you are not generating the right type of conflict, your organization may lack innovation. Many of today’s organizational leaders avoid conflict because they’ve been trained...
Don’t Get Stupid, Use Your Anger for Good
It seems that Apple CEO Tim Cook is quite capable of getting angry without getting stupid, which is no small accomplishment. At a recent shareholder’s meeting, Cook was pressed by representatives of a conservative think tank, The National Center for Public Policy...
Consultant’s ‘Glossary of Failure’ gets Down to the Nitty Gritty
Dallas Morning News / USA When it comes to accountability, the devil is in the details. Be explicit in your communication or be prepared to disappoint or be disappointed. That’s the message from Henry Evans, who makes his living coaching executives. “People fail to...
The Art of Accountability
UCD Business Connections / IrelandHenry Evans has been advising leading executives and organizations worldwide for many years through his Dallas-based company Dynamic Results and is internationally renowned for his expertise in the areas of emotionally intelligent...
An Interview with Author Henry J. Evans
In the book “Winning With Accountability, The Secret Language of High-Performing Organizations,” (2008), author Henry J. Evans offers a step-by-step guide to help any organization improve performance by creating an accountability culture. The book and the method it...
5 Signs Your Organization May Have A Learning Disability
Hi, my name is Henry Evans and our team gives organizations a competitive advantage. As consultants and thought partners we are sometimes in the painful position of watching our clients repeat limiting behaviors in a way which makes us scratch our heads. Why is it...
5 New Tools for Career Success
When we went out looking for the new skills that can help you succeed in today’s workplace, we figured that technology would play a big role. We didn’t figure it would play the only role. Sure, one of today’s most-valued hard skills is making a computer do your...
5 Business Books You Should Read This Spring
Why? They’re great. And they’ll help you become greater. I promise they’re all good:1. Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter, by Henry Evans and Colm Foster. You lead all day, every day, but some moments really matter, and what you do in those moments makes all the...