Building client relationships: ask great questions

This blog argues that effective questioning can help deepen understanding, foster collaboration, and drive better outcomes.

How to deal with difficult people in meetings

This blog includes tips on how to deal with difficult people in meetings to have productive meetings every time.

The High Price of Being a Low Energy Leader

In this blog post, we explores the impact of low energy leadership on individuals, teams, and organizations.

The problem is we don’t agree there’s a problem: Why you’re struggling to influence

This blog post examines the challenges of influencing others when there is disagreement about the existence or severity of a problem.

Introducing the Bates LTPI™: Defining what makes a team “high performing” today

From our perspective at Bates, a high performing team sets free the genius of its members to create the extraordinary together.

Great leadership style: the power of intentionality

This blog post explores the concept of intentional leadership and its impact on individuals, teams, and organizations.

How leaders develop and communicate a vision

How do leaders develop and communicate a vision? Here’s how.

Developing Middle Leaders

Middle leaders are being asked to play an increasingly important role in shaping and developing talent and strategic positioning.

The Twelve Shifts

By sifting a database of 100,000 conversations, a pattern emerges. 12 big mindset shifts that shape and define a lifetime’s growth.

Theoretical Underpinnings of our Approach

This paper introduces the theoretical underpinnings of three of our over-arching development framework of our transformational approach.