Articles

Leadership in Practice: Greg Kozicz of Alberici

Leadership in Practice: A conversation with Greg Kozicz, Ph.D., President, Alberici Q: Can you give me a 2 minute synopsis on how you got where you are now?  A:  After completing a Ph.D. in international relations and working in the Canadian Foreign Service, I was approached to be chief of staff for the Federal Minister of Science. When that assignment was winding down, I made the shift to the private sector with a large development company that was getting into the privatization of public infrastructure. The privatization projects always involved complex relationships and an understanding of how government worked, so that...
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Tips for Setting Goals

When it comes to setting goals, we find that people struggle most with writing a goal that is motivating and meaningful. While there are many tips out there to help you write your goals better (e.g., using S.M.A.R.T. criteria), there is one tip that seems to bring home what a good goal statement is all about: Look for the “to”. A good goal statement describes the outcome or future state you are trying to create. However, when writing a goal, people will often focus on the tactics to use to accomplish the goal rather than the goal itself. A project...
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Giving Feedback in Mentoring

by Rik Nemanick, Ph.D. One of the more underutilized tools mentors have at their disposal is giving feedback to a protégé. Because most mentors don’t observe protégés in their daily work, they may not feel they have the opportunity to give feedback. As a result, protégés miss an opportunity to learn from the mentor’s point of view. However, there are sources of information that a mentor can use to give a protégé feedback: Observation: If the opportunity is available, a mentor might observe a protégé, like making a presentation or leading a meeting. While a mentor would want to be...
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Mentoring in Practice: Kelvin Taylor of Maritz

Mentoring in Practice A Conversation with Kelvin Taylor, President of Maritz Loyalty Marketing  Q: Can you give me a two minute synopsis of how you got where you are now? A: After I started my career as an actuary with the Department of Labor, I moved to Atlanta, where I worked for a statistical consulting firm called CCN. That company decided to move into the emerging field of database marketing, believing that the same models used to predict the likelihood of somebody filing bankruptcy could also apply to determining the likelihood of somebody responding to a marketing offer. One of...
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