Founders' Reflections Archives | Turknett Leadership Group

Keeping Up: Seven Ways to Pursue Self-Development

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG “Keeping up” – and continuing to learn – is probably my favorite part of any job. I think I come by it honestly. I’ve told the story before of my mother, who was born in 1906 and was in graduate school and working all the time while I […]

March 22, 2023 View Article

Ditching the Balancing Act by Integrating Work with Life

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Work-life balance implies that we have two things we are keeping in balance. We have to work, but we hope to also have some time for “life.” Work-life integration recognizes that we have one precious life, which is filled with many things, and one of them is work. […]

February 23, 2023 View Article

Leadership Development Then and Now – What Hasn’t Changed

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG About 25 years ago we had an experience that showed the shocking power of development opportunities. A super-talented, high-powered salesperson at a large telecom was about to leave. Her boss was frantic. Amazingly, it wasn’t a retention bonus that kept her, or a promise of a promotion. She […]

January 25, 2023 View Article

Leadership Character is for Everyone

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Someone asked recently whether the Leadership Character Model came first or our book – Decent People, Decent Company – came first. The answer is that the model came first, and in thinking about the years in the early 1990’s when my husband and business partner, Bob Turknett, were […]

October 26, 2022 View Article

A Guide to Identifying High Potentials

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Thinking about how we identify high potentials in organizations is a really big question. There are three things that come to my mind that organizations should likely be thinking about: 1. Should you be paying more attention to all your talent, not just those selected as high […]

September 26, 2022 View Article

How to Become an Enterprise Leader

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Developing an Enterprise Leadership Mindset I remember distinctly a conversation with a leader who had just hired two new employees, and was startled by the difference in their attitudes. One seemed competent but waited to be told what to do, while the other was already thinking strategically about […]

August 17, 2022 View Article

5 Ways Leaders Can Benefit All Stakeholders

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG One of the hallmarks of aging I’ve learned is realizing just how much you don’t know (the internet age has surely exaggerated this phenomenon). I’ve followed the Conscious Capitalism movement since I heard Raj Sisodia at the Academy of Management conference shortly after he and John Mackey, founder […]

June 15, 2022 View Article

The Elegance of Self-Talk

By Bob Turknett TLG Co-founder and Co-chairman A former friend and colleague of mine, Maxie Maultsby, who, at that time, was Director of Outpatient Psychiatry at the University of Kentucky Medical College, once told me that he thought the word “elegant” might be the most important word in the English language. I asked him to […]

May 18, 2022 View Article

How to Improve Communication During your Next Virtual Meeting

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG This article is adapted from a prior LinkedIn post. I’m an introvert, and I’ve found virtual meetings a bit harder for me – especially in times of free discussion. Most introverts have had this experience in face to face meetings: just when you’ve finally figured out the right […]

April 20, 2022 View Article

Heidi and Howard: An Update on the Tightrope

By Lyn Turknett Co-founder and Co-chair, TLG Most women in leadership roles are familiar with the tightrope they are expected to walk – too aggressive and you are seen as overly pushy, too passive and friendly, and you aren’t seen as a leader. Our implicit assumptions are that women will be kind and nurturing, and […]

March 24, 2022 View Article