Leadership in Action – Is Your Culture Killing Your Employees?
The baby boomer invention and desire to be workaholics is a failed experiment. While a certain amount of stress creates ...Read More »
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Leadership in Action – Labor Shortage? A Wake-Up Call for Better Cultures
As we work through the hybrid workplace, potential shortage of workers and an increased demand for goods and services, w...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 5 Steps to Strategic Team Alignment
From time to time, as a leader you need to make a strategic shift that challenges the status quo for your team members. ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – How to Prevent In and Out Groups when Half of Your Team is Out of the Office
One of the most culturally destructive artifacts within organizations is the formation of “in groups” and “out gro...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Shifting into the Hybrid Workplace: Your Chance to Change the Culture
For the past 15 months, we have undergone tremendous change. Now, we are shifting into a “new normal” which includes...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Results: Rubber, Meet Road
The final piece to the five Key Characteristics of Team Effectiveness is Results. This is not just getting numbers on th...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Does Your Team Own It?
“Accountability” is a word that leaders love, and individual contributors loathe. For leaders, we think of accountab...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Commitment or Mere Participation?
In a ham and eggs breakfast, the chicken participates but the pig is committed. With apologies to the pig, this perfectl...Read More »
Leadership in Action – How Does Your Team Handle Conflict?
Following last week’s post, the second characteristic of an effective team is the ability to engage in a Healthy Confl...Read More »
Leadership in Action – How Much Trust Exists in Your Team?
Patrick Lencioni’s book, The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, provides a good framework to look at how effective your team...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Can You Recognize the Difference Between Limiting and Liberating Beliefs?
Guest Contributor: Dr. Amy Young University of Michigan, Center for Positive Organizations Leaders play a k...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Do You Take Time to Celebrate?
Many of us are still leading teams remotely. With all the video conference calls we need to be on, there is a chance we ...Read More »
Leadership In Action – Your Wellbeing Depends on You Leading Well
Last week, Michelle McQuaid and her colleagues at The Wellbeing Lab released their latest community report, providing in...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Hire Someone Who Does Not Fit!
What do you look for when bringing a new member into your team? When we focus on the way they will fit into the current ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Is There Something Worse than Being Fired?
What is worse than being fired? Being ignored. As a leader, ignoring one or more team members is a form of punishment, a...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Creating Simple Innovation
Too often, when we ask our teams to be innovative, they think “the next iPhone” on the horizon. We put innovation to...Read More »
Leadership in Action – What Is Your Team’s PTG?
We have all heard about PTSD – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder – and the impact this has on individuals for months, o...Read More »
Leadership In Action – Are You the Most Stressful Part of your Team’s Day?
In an HBR[1] article, it was reported that 75% of Americans say their “boss is the most stressful part of their work...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Beyond Good To Great
As we develop ourselves, our teams, and organizations, what is needed to get to the next level changes. It takes more ef...Read More »
Leadership In Action – Having that Tough Conversation
Many of us put off having that tough conversation, as we visualize it not going well. The reality is that an effective w...Read More »
Leadership in Action – To Do or To Teach? That is the question.
“It’s just quicker to do it myself.” Every one of us has said this, from time to time. It’s the choice to train...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Pattern or Event? When to Give Feedback
Traditionally, when we see a team member making an error or mistake, no matter how small, we want to jump in and provide...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Ensuring Goal Acceptance
In the past two posts, we looked at the advantages of clear and accepted goals, as well as how to ensure that goals are ...Read More »
Leadership In Action – 3 Essential Aspects to Goal Communication
Last week, we looked at how clear and accepted goals create innovation, proactive behavior and grit in your teams. This ...Read More »
Leadership In Action – New Attitude for 2021
In our core education, we simplify the concept of attitude to its foundation: Are you leaning towards something or are y...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Want to be More Productive? Take a Break
As many of us are leading knowledge workers, who we expect to be creative and strategic, we want to redefine how we Ener...Read More »