Leadership in Action – When You have a Strong Why, You do not Need the HowSeptember 9, 2020The Pacific Institute Getting locked into how something needs to be done holds back our teams and ourselves. When we Connect the Dots by foc...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 3 Difficult Steps to Fixing a Dysfunctional CultureSeptember 2, 2020The Pacific Institute This Leadership Series generally focuses on the nuances needed to help lead a team and culture to better performance by ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 4 Ways to Help Your Team PivotAugust 26, 2020The Pacific Institute Pivot! is the buzz word of the moment. The reality is that it is just good change management. To pivot is when leaders E...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The A-List for Effective CommunicationAugust 19, 2020The Pacific Institute As you are Connecting the Dots for your team, it is essential to keep these guidelines in mind: Active Listening The...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Are your staff in FLOW?August 12, 2020The Pacific Institute Your 7-point checklist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a Hungarian psychologist, coined the phrase “FLOW” t...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The Idiot ResponseAugust 5, 2020The Pacific Institute While you want your team to collaborate and leverage each other’s ideas and efforts, more often than not, one or two m...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Our Blink Response Makes for Bad LeadershipJuly 29, 2020The Pacific Institute The immediate assumptions we wrap around ideas and information is our blink response. (Malcolm Gladwell wrote a book, Bl...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 3 Styles of Decision MakingJuly 22, 2020The Pacific Institute There are two fatal flaws in coaching others into better performance: • Overuse of Command (micro-managing) • Over...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 5 Questions for Conducting Appreciative Inquiry One-On-OnesJuly 15, 2020The Pacific Institute As leaders, we generally have many opportunities to have one-on-one meetings with each of our direct reports. These meet...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Appreciative Inquiry: A Core Strategy during Disruptive TimesJuly 8, 2020The Pacific Institute In these disruptive times, many of us are stuck in our normal way of looking at creating new growth. Our traditional pro...Read More »
Leadership in Action – How is Your Culture Shifting?July 1, 2020The Pacific Institute As you are working through the ever-changing landscape of business today, how will you and your organization emerge from...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The 4 Components of an Effective Leadership PhilosophyJune 24, 2020The Pacific Institute Just as an effective organization has their Mission, Vision, Strategy and Values statements to guide their choices in ma...Read More »
Leadership in Action- The 5 Critical Questions in Leading ChangeJune 17, 2020The Pacific Institute Any time we make changes in our organizations, from a platform change in software to a strategic change in marketing, we...Read More »
Leadership in Action- Leading On PurposeJune 10, 2020The Pacific Institute Many companies are waiting for the “new normal” to emerge so they can make choices on how they fit in the new econom...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Why Narcissism Creates Unjust CulturesJune 4, 2020The Pacific Institute This is the final of five blogs covering the potential workplace triggers that make up the SCARF model (NeuroLeadership ...Read More »
We Stand With YouJune 3, 2020The Pacific Institute For over 50 years, The Pacific Institute has been dedicated to the principle that everyone has a God-given right to achi...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Creating Psychological SafetyMay 27, 2020The Pacific Institute This is the fourth of five blogs covering the potential workplace triggers that make up the SCARF model (NeuroLeadership...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Increase Accountability through AutonomyMay 20, 2020The Pacific Institute This is the third of five blogs covering the potential workplace triggers that make up the SCARF model (NeuroLeadership ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The Science of CertaintyMay 13, 2020The Pacific Institute This is the second of five blogs that cover the potential triggers in the workplace that make up the SCARF model (NeuroL...Read More »
Leadership in Action – SCARF and the Growth MindsetMay 6, 2020The Pacific Institute The amygdala hijack (Daniel Goleman – Emotional Intelligence) is triggered when an individual experience a significant...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Holding People Accountable TodayApril 29, 2020The Pacific Institute Following last week’s post of building resiliency, what if you follow those four steps to help build the resiliency an...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 4 Key Steps to Building Resiliency in Your TeamApril 22, 2020The Pacific Institute One of the most common errors leaders make is their desire to be efficient when communicating with their teams. When we ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Three Expectations for Driving InnovationApril 15, 2020The Pacific Institute As many articles have gilded our global situation with a silver lining, a common thread is how productive we can be when...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Leading from HomeApril 8, 2020The Pacific Institute For most of the population currently working from home, this situation is outside of their “normal” comfort zone, wh...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 3 Leadership Styles That Role Model VulnerabilityApril 1, 2020The Pacific Institute Since her 2010 TEDx talk, Brené Brown has delivered vulnerability front and center as a key part of being human, and in...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Leading Others through their Latest ChallengeMarch 25, 2020The Pacific Institute As leaders helping our teams grow, we occasionally are confronted with an individual who is stuck because they cannot se...Read More »