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The Seven Sins of Feedback (And How to Avoid Them During Mid-Year Reviews)

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG It’s mid-year review season again! It’s that time of year when calendars fill up with performance check-ins and leaders across the organization gear up to give feedback. And while feedback is often considered one of the most powerful leadership tools, it’s also one of the most frequently misunderstood. […]

July 23, 2025 View Article

Halftime Adjustments: Mold Your Goals, Don’t Abandon Them

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG Picture this: You’re the quarterback. You’ve just spent two quarters grinding it out on the football field… dodging surprises, making tough calls, rallying the team. You’re a little banged up, maybe behind on the scoreboard, but you’re still in the game. And now… it’s halftime. You jog into […]

June 25, 2025 View Article

Beyond the Resume: Embracing the Skills-Based Hiring Shift

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG There’s always something electric about this time of year… thousands of graduates stepping boldly into the unknown. Tassels turn, caps fly, and the workforce gains its newest wave of hopeful talent! Each spring, fresh college graduates enter the workforce… eager, optimistic, and armed with diplomas. But too often, […]

May 21, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With Randall H. Lucius, PhD

I’m a licensed psychologist, with a specialty in industrial and organizational psychology. I’ve been practicing for about 30 years now. Currently, I serve as the Assistant Vice President for Learning and Development at Emory University. I lead a department of 16 people, which is divided into four distinct teams: Learning and Development, Workplace Culture and […]

May 14, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Consultant, Dr Cherry Collier

How do you help leaders distinguish between useful information and distracting noise? So when you’re thinking about useful information, I like to call that the signal—and everything else is the noise. And when you start to think about the signal, I see it like a dial. Like, way back when, you used to tune your […]

April 22, 2025 View Article

You Can’t Lead Clearly with 47 Tabs Open

By Tim Huff President & CEO, TLG I needed to buy a bag of ice. I was standing in the checkout line at my usual Saturday afternoon grocery store, juggling a mental to-do list and reminding myself: Don’t forget to ask the cashier for a bag of ice. Simple enough. But while I waited, I […]

April 17, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Advisor, Susan Hitchcock

Why is investing in the next generation of leaders important? I can think of nothing more important. In my lifetime, I’ve never felt the need for investing in our future (locally, nationally and globally) more than I do now. Everything’s changing either for the good or for the not so good and we need the […]

March 26, 2025 View Article

An Exclusive Interview With TLG Co-Founder, Lyn Turknett

Why is investing in the next generation of leaders important? Well, it seems to go without saying that investing in the next generation is important in all aspects of an organization or business. The organizations we work with are particularly interested in identifying young leaders they believe will be successful and investing in them. Otherwise, […]