(adj) Con Brio – “With passion and spirit.”

BrioPartners is renowned for helping our clients lead with passion and spirit, instilling energy and exuberance both within and outside their organizations, and realizing a heightened experience of energy and vigor in the workplace.

At BrioPartners we believe leaders and leadership teams set the tone for workplace energy.  Our mantra is: ‘Pace of the leader, speed of the team.’  BrioPartner’s client organizations require authentic, passionate leaders who practice emotional and social intelligence, and are mindful of their aspirations and those of their followers.  Our aim is guiding and encouraging the development of key capacities in leaders: self-awareness, interpersonal effectiveness, change resiliency & hardiness, and team performance and cohesiveness.  Whether One-on-One, in classroom settings, or combined with a leadership team, we work to diagnose our client’s core talents and complement their well-honed competencies with effective, targeted development.

BrioPartners is recognized for the experience and insights of our leadership team.  Our senior team brings deep, diverse perspectives and experiences from varied settings and challenges. Each of BrioPartner’s leaders has a proven track record of nurturing the emergent leaders and teams across diverse settings, and across diverse industries, bringing that experience to every client engagement. We implement sound methodology, a diverse philosophical approach, and we thrive in a collective partnership.  Our singular focus is our client’s success.

BrioPartners: Energizing, Renewing, Inspiring.  Ignite the fire.  Lead ‘con brio.’

Several years ago, updating your resume was often synonymous with mentally separating yourself from your current employer. Putting a copy “on the street” was the company-loyalty equivalent of putting a “For Lease” sign on your office door. However, in today’s business environment, the ability to articulate one’s current inventory of leadership skills and business acumen has never been more important or necessary. Business social networks such as LinkedIn remove the stigma of presenting an ongoing professional profile to the public. Don’t wait until you are looking to leave a company to take a hard look at what you bring to it. Taking stock of your skill sets starts when you decide to make purposeful change to refresh your career.

The savvy leader explores three foundational issues:

• Where will the organization be in five years, and how can my capabilities help it get there? 
• What are the esteemed behaviors in the organization?  What are the values and cultural guideposts that point toward organizational fit?
• How am I doing against these two perspectives? Are there any significant gaps?  What are the strengths to build upon?

You may find this self-assessment futile without external feedback. Reflect back for a moment: what strengths and weaknesses were highlighted in your most-recent performance feedback? Look around: Ask your trusted friends and colleagues to give you honest input on where they think you shine, and where you may fall short.

Then, leverage time-tested publications such as Lominger’s “For Your Improvement” to identify the Key Competencies of successful leaders, and behaviors that can stall or stop your career. It is impossible to know if you are on the right path without gauging your leadership skills and competencies against a clear, cohesive model for leadership success. Based on what you have learned about yourself, “For Your Improvement” can provide you with practical next action steps through clearly outlined diagnostic, self-development recommendations. Set the bar, develop, and execute a plan to reach it.

Whether you are looking for a new career, or striving for renewed focus in your current role, an examination of how to best leverage the unique portfolio of skills and business acumen that you possess is always a worthwhile investment. In a period where many managers find themselves lacking some key leadership skills, supporting the development and sharpening the skills deemed critical by an organization can often be the catalyst to excellence and success.

What are the key personal attributes and business competencies that you feel are needed to succeed as a leader today in your organization?