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10/09/2024

This will not be the same without you!

01/20/2023

Working to make a difference! I hope I left my fingerprint on participants in workshops I facilitated at this meeting of top level financial advisors. The workshop title was "The Leadership Edge in DEI: Three things you can do to make a difference". Thanks to the participants who engaged in practical, constructively challenging discussions about what they could personally do to fully utilize all their resources.
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08/09/2022

Celebrate 10 years of Pennpoint Consulting Group by watching one of our most popular presentations to date: "Coaching Black American Executives."

In this speech, Gregory Pennington Ph.D., an AIIR Consulting senior coach, addresses the unique set of challenges in the workplace that Black Americans face on a daily basis.

Even as companies make inroads with and at the executive level, these challenges remain present and it is up to the companies to source skilled coaches to empower the Black Americans in their suite.

Watch the full video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnvz1i4Eg-A

Even as companies make inroads with diversity and inclusion at the executive level, Black Americans face a unique set of challenges in the workplace. In this...

08/04/2022

In a peer coaching circle of director-level participants in a financial services organization, one member asked how to increase their credibility and presence when they entered a room with senior-level executives.

They were actively working to influence a career acceleration point.

One member of the coaching circle responded by asking, “when you knocked on the door, did they know who you were?”

Knocking on the door is not an uncommon metaphor for succession planning and the progression of high potentials and high performers to the next level and/or increased levels of responsibility.

In honor of our 10 year anniversary, check out this blog from the Pennpoints archive: https://pennpointconsultinggroup.com/knock-knock-whos-there/

Let us know your thoughts in the comments below.

In a peer coaching circle of director level participants in a financial services organization, one member raised the question about how to increase their credibility and presence when they entered […]

08/01/2022

We're celebrating 10 years in business this August! To celebrate a decade of success, we've curated a list of the best blogs, videos, and speaking engagements.

View our 10-year anniversary page here: https://pennpointconsultinggroup.com/10-year-anniversary/

And celebrate a decade of Pennpoint Consulting Group with Gregory Pennington, PhD during our Zoom By event on August 19.

Network, chat, and reflect with peers.

Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvdOCgrDgoG9R_9TudHZYewgSR9NlzLuVN

07/27/2022

We have been encouraged to be authentic, to bring our whole selves, to be who we are. In our pursuit to be more effective , we are invited to show the courage to be vulnerable.

We should be willing to leave our own signature, footprint, fingerprint, and scent on what we do.

Let’s be real and realistic.

There are both rewards and risks to be considered in doing this and there are ways to manage and leverage both.

In his most recent blog for Pennpoint Consulting Group, Greg Pennington, Ph.D. shares 3 suggestions on how to get the most out of being .

Read the full blog here: https://pennpointconsultinggroup.com/lets-be-real/

Let's be real. In our pursuit to be more effective leaders, we are invited to show the courage to be vulnerable.

07/11/2022

Over the past 10 years, I've shared key takeaways from leadership development trainings, insights from my experiences, and my thoughts on current events on my blog, titled Pennpoints.

Most recently, I created drawings of inspirational leaders and ruminated on their lessons on .

Malcolm X, Septima Poinsette Clark, Harriet Tubman, and Frederick Douglass came to life on the page as I reflected on their lives, always drawing back to the key questions at hand: When others think of ""
leader," does your own name come to mind?

You can read my blogs and check out all of my videos here: https://pennpointconsultinggroup.com/pennpoints/

And join us in celebrating 10 Years of Pennpoint Consulting Group this August!

Malcolm X on Leadership “Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that […] Posted on February 28, 2022 by Greg Pennington Posted in PennPointsLeave a comment

06/02/2022

I know I do not like . I have been told that directly.

I know some people have even called me passive (behind my back).

I am not alone.

Some of us are accused of liking people too much and/or wanting to be liked too much.

I know my problem is that I have hyper-active tear ducts, can be , and try to avoid frustrations and challenges that might result in tears streaming down my face.

What lies below the surface for you may be different, but what observable behaviors are we talking about?

At a recent senior leader team work session I facilitated, we discussed the importance of conflict management.

Read about it on my blog: https://pennpointconsultinggroup.com/conflict-avoidant-got-problem/

  I know I do not like conflict. I have been told that directly. I know some people have even called me passive (behind my back). I am not alone. […]

05/25/2022

What makes you think you are an effective leader?

When you're asked to think of someone (still living) who is an effective leader, would your own name come to mind? If it does, do you feel comfortable recommending yourself?

Dive deeper into this question with me here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lAm1EIei9k

Who comes to mind for you as an example of an effective leader? What did they do to make you consider them effective? Would you show up on someone else's lis...

05/19/2022

I was honored to attend last year's American Psychological Association Conference and join the panel discussion, "Enhancing Organizational Influence and Impact with Strategic Focus and Cultural Agility."

Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0kMxbXwxhE

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Recording of the virtual Annual American Psychological Association Conference 2021, titled "Enhancing Organizational Influence and Impact with Strategic Focu...