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America Back to Work: Tina E. Grimes
How to Assess and Address Leadership Development
In this week’s episode of America Back to Work, host Arnette Heintze sits down with Tina E. Grimes, CEO of TINA Enterprises and a seasoned leadership training expert.
Tina shares her extensive experience helping organizations enhance their leadership and cultural dynamics. She discusses common leadership pitfalls, the importance of authentic leadership, and effective strategies for developing and enhancing organizational leadership skills.
Key Points Discussed
- Common Leadership Challenges: High turnover, low morale, and a gossip-prone culture are highlighted as indicators of organizational leadership issues. Tina emphasizes leaders’ challenges, including micromanagement, poorly fit team roles, and an absence of ownership and accountability.
- Strategies for Effective Leadership: The critical role of authenticity, integrity, and trustworthiness in leadership. The importance of leadership assessments in initiating constructive dialogues and using tools to facilitate these conversations without triggering defensiveness. Empowering teams and recognizing individual motivations as a way to foster a productive workplace.
- Role of HR in Leadership Development: Tina discusses how HR professionals can use assessments to gauge a leader’s openness to change and training, facilitating better leadership practices within their organizations. She advises handling higher-level leaders who may resist feedback and sharing techniques to engage them constructively.
- Fun Fact about Tina: A surprising personal revelation from Tina about her basketball skills illustrates that there’s often more to leaders than meets the eye.
Tina’s insights provide a robust framework for understanding the nuances of effective leadership and its effect on organizational culture. Her practical tips offer valuable guidance for anyone looking to enhance organizational leadership.
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S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm. In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.