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 »
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Leadership in Action – 4 Steps for Inboarding Your 2021 Strategy
Inboarding recognizes that Onboarding is not a one-and-done process. Inboarding is the ongoing practice of keeping your ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – 3 Questions When Goals are Not Met
Last week, we covered goals that were met, or nearly met. This week, we address the situation where a team member is not...Read More »
How Are We Doing on Our Goals?
As we enter the last month of the year, we are faced with the goals we met and those we didn’t. (If we are achieving 1...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Dealing with Disruptive Employees
As leaders, we often hang onto employees, who do not fit into the organization, for too long. There is a mix of reasons ...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Leading the Difference: Employees or Volunteers?
A great conversation to have with your team (especially if they are leading their own teams) is around the difference be...Read More »
Setting Realistic Expectations for the Next Role
This is typically a tough conversation. Your team member has grown in their performance, but in your eyes, you know they...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Are You a Captain of the World?
When we get set in our ways, convinced that only our way is the right way, it is very easy for us to see the world aroun...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Building Healthy Interdependence Within Your Teams
While teaming and collaboration are ubiquitous in our organizations, high functioning teams are not. And while most of u...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Are We Unintentionally Creating an Unethical Culture?
When we are leading others, we are shaping their behaviors with our expectations. While we may be conscious of many of o...Read More »
Leadership in Action – What Type of Culture are You Trying to Create?
As organizations are pivoting or panicking during this time of COVID, many leaders are looking for a silver bullet. They...Read More »
The One Question that Stops Innovation
We have all heard the mantra – fail early and fail often. As we Nurture Growth in our teams, we say this to inspire i...Read More »
3 ways to Avoid the Brain Hijack…
In these times of great uncertainty, our brain’s built-in warning system (the amygdala) can hijack our thinking with a...Read More »
Leadership in Action – Avoid 3 Common Ways We ALL Micro-Manage
None of us likes to be micro-managed by others, but most of us will micro-manage at times. More often than not, when w...Read More »
Leadership in Action – When You have a Strong Why, You do not Need the How
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 Culture
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 Pivot
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 Communication
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?
Your 7-point checklist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a Hungarian psychologist, coined the phrase “FLOW” t...Read More »
Leadership in Action – The Idiot Response
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 Leadership
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 Making
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-Ones
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 Times
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?
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 Philosophy
Just as an effective organization has their Mission, Vision, Strategy and Values statements to guide their choices in ma...Read More »