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Can an Everyday Joe/Jane Become a Great Leader?
Is a leader born or made? Yes. Becoming a great leader means getting in touch with your human frailties as well as your strengths. It means breakdowns and breakthroughs. Breakdowns can and often do lead to breakthroughs. First you have to face the tiger. To use...
Can an Everyday Joe/Jane Become a Great Leader?
Is a leader born or made? Yes. Becoming a great leader means getting in touch with your human frailties as well as your strengths. It means breakdowns and breakthroughs. Breakdowns can and often do lead to breakthroughs. First you have to face the tiger. To use...
How Can Leaders Earn Your Trust?
Do you choose to work at a company because of exceptional leadership and trust in an individual or team? Maybe you attend a particular church because of the minister and their leadership in the area of spirituality. You might have joined a nonprofit because the...
Employee Accountability: Fun Conversations without Scolding!
How do you have conversations for employee accountability inside your organization? What if we could bring fun, play and ease to the conversations we have about being accountable? Being the oldest of four children, I was appointed the babysitter. It has taken me...
Why Do A-Players Leave Voluntarily?
When it comes to employee engagement and retention, why would your A-Players leave your company voluntarily? Hmmm... Let’s say an employee — let’s call him John — takes initiative to advance the team’s efforts to reach a goal. After much convincing he had team...
Conscious Leadership: The Triple Bottom Line
A study of thirty-two sustainability leaders and change agents were the subject of a Ph.D. candidate, Barrett Chapman Brown. The study is called “Conscious leadership for sustainability: How leaders with late-stage action logics design and engage in sustainability...
Conversations that Inspire Teams
As team members, we like to be inspired, yet it doesn’t take much to uninspired us. What is NOT inspiring your team? He said/she said. When WIIFM (what’s in it for me) overtakes the common mission. The blame game. Responsibility without authority Authority without...
Executive Excellence: 8 Titles that Inspire
Executive excellence is examined regularly in publications of all kinds. Some stand out because they cut to the chase on an essential ingredient that will not be ignored. I selected these book titles because they contribute directly to executive excellence. See if...
Do You Resist Collaboration?
Can you admit it? It's okay, you are not alone. Many people resist collaboration with colleagues. I find my preference for collaboration increasing. We have so much to consider in business today, going it alone isn’t very wise! Collaborative accountability is...
Public Enemy #1 of Increased Effectiveness
How many places has your inertia bit you in the productivity butt? Public Enemy #1 of increased effectiveness is inertia--yours and your team's. One place where I see it all the time is in the hiring process. The first step in hiring the right person for the job is...
Candor in Business: Are You Risk-Averse?
You might ask, “What kind of candor are you talking about?” This could be a very long and winded blog post if we included all the times and ways in which you could choose candor over hiding, lying, leaving or some other way to avoid telling the truth or expressing...
How to Survive the Team Drama Triangle
I've been there and maybe you have too — being held accountable for producing a result, then given people to work with who do not report to you. Hah! Good luck! In executive team building the team drama triangle must be identified and squashed. Sometimes...