Blog Notebook with showing goal, plan, and action text. Concept of business strategy, productivity, motivation and performance improvement. 27 Aug 2026 The Flow of Work: Small Habits That Compound At Shore Capital, I get to work on a lot of things I care about. Executive development programs, leadership summits,… Ben Gilbert
Blog 28 Jul 2026 One Skill, One Project: Learn HTML in One Month Why Learn HTML When AI Can Write It for You? When was the last time you used an AI tool… Austin Johnson
Blog 17 Jul 2026 What “Reset” Taught Me About Getting Unstuck I spend a lot of time thinking about how people grow. And one pattern I see repeatedly across Shore Capital's… Ben Gilbert
Blog Close-up of a desk calendar showing June 2026, surrounded by a blue pen and a simple brown background. Ideal for planning, scheduling, and organization themes. 22 Jun 2026 Mid-Year Reviews: Less Review, More Planning Mid-year reviews should tell you nothing new about your performance. At least, the review part shouldn't. In fact, mid-year reviews… Anderson Williams
Blog 09 Jun 2026 Navigating Leadership: Michael Burcham This interview series brings the hard-earned lessons of entrepreneurial leaders to those who crave guidance on their own journey. By… Adam Shibley
Blog 13 May 2026 Aimpoint Discipline: Why Crushing Your KPIs Won’t Rescue a Failing Goal Incorrect Aimpoint "Abort, abort, abort. Request immediate reattack 1,000 meters south. We are under fire and need effects ASAP." I… Tim Myland
Blog 27 Apr 2026 Master Your Business Narrative: A Simple Framework for Microcap Leaders Why Your Business Narrative Matters More Than You Think When was the last time someone asked what your company does… Austin Johnson
Blog 15 Apr 2026 Don’t Demo the Process. Demo the Thinking. You're standing in front of your team, walking them through a new process you built. You know it cold. You… Jackson Sprayberry
Blog 24 Mar 2026 Stakeholder Management Is a Skill, Not an Instinct The Capability Gap No One Talks About Growth demands more than strategy and capital. It demands people who can navigate… Austin Johnson
Blog 10 Mar 2026 Turning Objections into Alignment When Pushback Isn’t the Problem You roll out a new system, org chart, or some different way of working. Someone… Jackson Sprayberry
Blog 23 Feb 2026 Navigating Leadership: Kathy Wanner Navigating Leadership: Kathy Wanner Recently, I sat down with Kathy Wanner, Executive Partner at Shore Capital Partners and a Founding… Adam Shibley
Blog 09 Feb 2026 Team Engagement: Building Connection, Trust, and Results The Human Dynamics Behind Engaged Teams Team Engagement is a much-talked-about phrase. But what really works? What causes people to… Michael Burcham
Blog 26 Jan 2026 Navigating Leadership: Dino Eliopoulos This interview series brings the hard-earned lessons of entrepreneurial leaders to those who crave guidance on their own journey. Please… Adam Shibley
Blog 14 Jan 2026 Skill Mapping for Leaders: Seeing What Your Organization Can Really Do Why Capability Visibility Matters in Private Equity In private equity-backed organizations, leaders are asked to move fast, make confident decisions,… Austin Johnson
Blog 15 Dec 2025 Building a Culture of Team Development What does it take to build a team development-focused culture? In my role at Shore Capital, I get to work… Ben Gilbert
Blog 02 Dec 2025 Navigating Leadership: Tara Conger This interview series brings the hard-earned lessons of entrepreneurial leaders to those who crave guidance on their own journey. By… Adam Shibley
Blog 21 Nov 2025 Navigating Leadership: Nikki Haley This interview series brings the hard-earned lessons of entrepreneurial leaders to those who crave guidance on their own journey. By… Adam Shibley
Blog 20 Nov 2025 Navigating Leadership: Joe Matarese This interview series brings the hard-earned lessons of entrepreneurial leaders to those who crave guidance on their own journey. By… Adam Shibley
Blog 27 Oct 2025 Turning Numbers into Narratives: The Power of Data in Leadership Why Leaders Need More Than Metrics In a data-driven world, leaders have more access to information than ever before. Yet… Austin Johnson
Blog 13 Oct 2025 6 Tips for Setting and Protecting Boundaries How to Say “No” So You Actually Get Work Done In my previous blog, I talked about the importance of… Anderson Williams
Blog 29 Sep 2025 6 Questions to Add Urgency to Your Boundaries If You Can’t Say “No”, You Can’t Lead And Won’t Grow I was in a session last week with a… Anderson Williams
Blog 15 Sep 2025 5 Lessons in Performance Management Most Leaders Overlook Getting Results Starts with Understanding the Gaps Performance management is complicated. It’s people. It’s process. It’s technology. It’s incentives. It’s… Anderson Williams
Blog 27 Aug 2025 Shore Research’s Top 3 tips for Using AI LLMs in Market Research With the recent rollout of ChatGPT 5, even those with the most luddite of approaches have started to take notice… Caitlin Zager
Blog 19 Aug 2025 The Problem With One-Size-Fits-All Leadership Training If you aren’t teaching leadership in context, you’re only teaching in theory And, few working adults are - or are… Anderson Williams
Blog 29 Jul 2025 Innovation Starts Where Realism and Idealism Meet I was at a meeting recently where attendees were discussing innovation and how and where - and even whether -… Anderson Williams
Blog 23 Jun 2025 Mid-Year Reflection: AI Has Already Changed Everything A Year That Shifted Faster Than Expected I don’t know when in my career there’s ever been a mid-point in… Anderson Williams
Blog 10 Jun 2025 The Key to Innovation: How Might We? I love the question "How might we?" It is the foundation of innovation. Starting with it can open a world… Anderson Williams
Blog 27 May 2025 How Reshoring and AI Are Shaping Today’s Workforce Upskilling Needs As the uncertain tariff environment drives talk of reshoring and onshoring, and AI continues to be the buzziest trend of… Caitlin Zager
Blog 14 May 2025 How is 17th Century Thinking Holding Back Your Company? I rarely read books twice, but Margaret Wheatley’s Leadership and the New Science is an exception and an absolute revelation.… Anderson Williams
Blog A diverse team of professionals celebrates a workplace achievement with a high-five in a modern office. The moment captures motivation, cooperation, and a positive business culture focused on teamwork 12 May 2025 What is Talent Development? Talent development is: 1) Making sure you’ve prepared the people you need to execute your business strategy. You can have… Anderson Williams
Blog 05 May 2025 Leadership Labs: Harnessing Collective Wisdom for Real-World Leadership Challenges At Shore, we believe sharing experiences, insights, and wisdom among peers enriches the leadership journey. Our latest innovation, Leadership Labs,… Shore University
Blog 28 Apr 2025 Accelerating Performance Through Employee Well-Being In January of my second year as principal of the school I founded, one of my newer teachers asked to… Sarah Giblin
Blog 14 Apr 2025 Locum Tenens: A Strategic Solution to Combat Provider Burnout Healthcare requires providers to exhibit sustainability, in that care must be delivered consistently every time, without interruption or weakening. This… Caitlin Zager
Blog 28 Mar 2025 6 Tips for Leading in Times of Uncertainty From companies to nonprofits to community groups, there are a lot of people around me experiencing a lot of uncertainty… Anderson Williams
Blog 07 Mar 2025 Beyond the Grind: How Crossing the Unknown Sea Turns Work into a Pilgrimage What if work wasn’t just a job, but a journey toward your most authentic self? Have you ever looked at… Shore University
Blog 03 Mar 2025 From Leadership Empathy to Compassion: 5 Tips to Care Differently (Not Less) Feeling your team’s struggles is natural—but carrying their burdens as your own can lead to burnout. What if there’s a… Jackson Sprayberry
Blog 17 Feb 2025 How Empathy Became My Achilles Heel as a Leader Many people often refer to empathy as the highest form of caring. But what if fully feeling someone else’s emotions… Jackson Sprayberry
Blog 07 Feb 2025 Rethinking Success: How The Heart of Business Redefines Leadership Can you overcome the “invisible hand” by deploying a purposefully visible heart? Ever wonder how Best Buy survived while its… Shore University
Blog 04 Feb 2025 What’s the ROI on Your Relationships? I sometimes get asked about the ROI of the work that I do. Whether I am talking about leadership, emotional… Anderson Williams
Blog 21 Jan 2025 Leading change? Don’t do anything. Listen. We all know the story about change: it’s the only constant, it’s happening faster than ever, if we don’t like… Anderson Williams
Blog 20 Jan 2025 Change Has a PR Problem You can’t grow without change. You can’t change without growth. Most people don’t like change. Most people do like growth.… Anderson Williams
Blog 07 Jan 2025 Make Your Resolutions More Resolute: Be Honest About Where You’re Starting Just because the clock strikes midnight, and the calendar turns to January 1 doesn’t mean some magical transformation happens in… Anderson Williams
Blog 25 Oct 2024 5 Things I’ve Learned About Being a CEO by NOT Being the CEO I have not been a CEO, but I have been the #2 guy several times over – in nonprofits, in… Anderson Williams
Blog 19 Aug 2024 The 3 Dimensions of Value There are three dimensions of value that can be offered to a customer, which most successful companies provide. Create Value:… Michael Burcham
Blog 12 Jun 2024 7 Ways to Transform Company Information Into Team Learning Often, when it comes to learning, less is more – especially when it is in the context of our work,… Anderson Williams
Blog 20 May 2024 Coaching Concepts: From Burning Out to Burning Back In I was on a coaching call recently with someone who was struggling with burnout. She had communicated her challenges with… Anderson Williams
Blog 06 May 2024 10 Strategies for Excelling as a Young Executive Being young and hungry is probably what helped get you where you are. Being self-motivated and highly intelligent have been… Anderson Williams
Blog 04 Apr 2024 Don’t Grow Horns, Polish Your Halo Sitting atop your product is a Halo. Customer retention and growth is determined by your ability and success in nurturing… Michael Burcham
Blog 07 Mar 2024 Coaching Concepts: Leading Change by Understanding Transitions I was on a coaching call recently with an up-and-coming leader in his organization who had been tasked with implementing… Anderson Williams
Blog 15 Feb 2024 New Leaders: 7 Pitfalls to Avoid Starting a new role is never easy. Often new leaders set themselves up for failure by simply falling into the… Michael Burcham
Blog 01 Feb 2024 From Individual Contribution to Manager: The Simple Math of a Difficult Shift It can be hard transitioning to manager. It totally shifts the mindset and value-creation principles that so many new managers… Anderson Williams
Blog 18 Jan 2024 Thoughts on Character When do we best see a person’s true colors? Most often, character is most often revealed by two extreme emotions:… Michael Burcham
Blog 04 Jan 2024 5 Questions to Ask About Your Internal Communication Strategy 1. What do you need your people to know? This is about business strategy and leadership. To lead a safe,… Anderson Williams
Blog 21 Dec 2023 Trust & Leadership Trust is an essential ingredient to an optimized workplace—a core part of every relationship we have. When we trust, we… Michael Burcham
Blog 07 Dec 2023 Coaching Concepts: Why And How You Need To Have Difficult Conversations With Your Boss Having difficult conversations is…well…difficult. This is especially true if you need to have a difficult conversation with a supervisor or… Anderson Williams
Blog 16 Nov 2023 Thoughts on Emotional Intelligence Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. (Lao Tzu)… Michael Burcham
Blog 02 Nov 2023 Ask. Listen. Learn. Repeat. A couple of years ago, I was working with a multi-billion dollar, global financial services company that had (pre-Covid) a… Anderson Williams
Blog 19 Oct 2023 The Journey of the Entrepreneurial Leader The Latin phrase “ex nihilo” means “out of nothing,” and it is most often associated with the concept of creation.… Michael Burcham
Blog 05 Oct 2023 Are You Building a Powerful Culture or a Culture of Power Power is at the core of your organizational culture whether or not you accept or even recognize it. In fact,… Anderson Williams
Blog 21 Sep 2023 5 Times When Silence is Golden One of the more important strategies of business communication is the finely honed sense of when not to talk. Especially… Michael Burcham
Blog 07 Sep 2023 Coaching Concepts: Using the 5 Whys to Solve People Problems A leadership team I support was struggling with a particular employee and the issues had been lingering for several months.… Anderson Williams
Blog 17 Aug 2023 Leaders Directly Impact The Well-Being Of Their Team Leaders play a crucial role in shaping the mental health and wellbeing of their employees. A positive and supportive work… Michael Burcham
Blog 03 Aug 2023 Coaching Concepts – Creating Team Alignment and Managing Up (even if you’re remote) I was on a recent coaching call where a mid-level leader of an independent business unit within a rapidly growing… Anderson Williams
Blog 20 Jul 2023 The Humanity of Business How do we find the humanity in business? We don’t. It is already human—an organism made up of real people… Michael Burcham
Blog 06 Jul 2023 5 Relationships Every Leader Needs There are five key relationships that every leader needs to thrive. While these aren’t always a one-to-one match (i.e. one… Anderson Williams
Blog 15 Jun 2023 Thoughts On Building Trust Leadership is about more than just telling people what to do. It’s about inspiring and guiding a team towards a… Michael Burcham
Blog 01 Jun 2023 Leadership Trust Isn’t Basic – It’s Foundational I spend a lot of time with individuals and teams working on two big concepts: trust and communication. I always… Anderson Williams
Blog 18 May 2023 The Antidote To Quiet Quitting: Investing In The Team The term “quiet quitting” has become a growing trend in today’s workplace. It refers to employees who are physically present… Michael Burcham
Blog 04 May 2023 Balancing Policy and People as You Scale Your Business During a workshop a few months ago, Michael Burcham said: “Every time you make a policy for something that is… Anderson Williams
Blog 27 Apr 2023 Rules of Engagement Employee Engagement is a much talked about phrase. But what really works? What causes people to become “engaged” in a… Michael Burcham
Blog 13 Apr 2023 Collaboration Requires Intentionality Not Just Desire Collaboration is a word we say and everyone seems to nod in agreement. Very rarely does someone suggest that it’s… Anderson Williams
Blog 23 Mar 2023 Where Do You See Yourself In 5 Years? As leaders, we have all been asked the question “Where do you see yourself in five years?” In each case,… Michael Burcham
Blog 09 Mar 2023 Great Leaders Don’t Just Do More – They Learn More, and Teach More We live in a culture of more-more-more. As a result, we often think we have to do more to be… Anderson Williams
Blog 23 Feb 2023 Finding Meaning & Purpose We all want our lives to have meaning. To have purpose. Yet, it’s easy to get lost in life’s daily… Michael Burcham
Blog 09 Feb 2023 5 Questions You Should Ask about Your Company’s Internal Communication 1. What do you need your people to know? This is about business strategy. For you to lead a safe,… Anderson Williams
Blog 19 Jan 2023 Thoughts for First Time Leaders Congratulations, you’ve just landed your first leadership role in an organization. It can be an exciting and challenging time. It… Michael Burcham
Blog 05 Jan 2023 To Learn Leadership, You Have to Get a Little Messy As an artist, when you learn to paint with oil paint, for example, you have to learn the characteristics of… Anderson Williams
