Team Development Is a Key Leadership Responsibility
Too many talented individuals get overlooked when managers don't view development as their responsibility. Unfortunately, there’s a common misbelief that the best way to get talent is to go out and hire “winners.” Or perhaps you heard you need to “get the right people...
Want Your Team More Engaged? Remove the Weapons of Mass Distraction
Guest Post by Victor Prince I used to be a “busy executive” with two phones strapped to my belt in the office – one for work and one for personal use. In most meetings, I put the phones on the table in front of me so I could see if I had any incoming messages. After...
Team Alignment Is For the Birds!
Do an Internet search for team alignment and you’ll find plenty of articles – why your team needs to be aligned for superior performance, how to align your team, and what alignment looks like. And you’ll see images like these to depict high performance teams. Team...
Are You a First-Time Manager? 6 Tips to Start Off Right
Are you ready to be a first-time manager? Perhaps you’ve had some bad managers in the past, and you think this is your chance to do it right. Well, it IS your chance to do it right. But you can’t wing it. Research reveals that nearly 60 percent of first-time managers...
4 Dangers of Digital Communication and 8 Tips to Avoid Them
Guest post by Naphtali Hoff It’s no surprise that we use email and text for so many of our communications. It’s often faster, it’s neater, and it can easily be saved for future reference without paper sifting and clutter. Digital communication allows us to send and...
How to Recognize a Leader
How do you recognize who's a leader? Is it the person telling everyone what to do? Not necessarily. If he is being ignored, he is only talking to himself. Is it the person giving directions? Telling people where to go? Not necessarily. An usher in the theater, who...
Why You Might Be a Micromanager and It’s Not Your Fault
Marissa was frustrated. As district manager of a large retail chain, she was responsible for ten stores. Her district was doing well, meeting sales goals and store operations were generally smooth. The problem was that her boss, the regional manager, was a...
Career Mobility Forces Organizations of the Future to Transform
Career mobility is the new way of the future. According to a 2012 Future Workplace Study, 91% of millennials expect to stay in a job for less than three years, and Fast Company reported a study pointing toward 4-year careers. But are today's organizations prepared for...
Radical Resiliency: An Interview with Eileen McDargh @Macdarling #Podcast
Radical resiliency is about more than simply "bouncing back." Eileen McDargh, internationally recognized keynote speaker, master facilitator, award-winning author, and founder of The Resiliency Group, shares her insights on resiliency and leadership. Eileen is the...
Four Decision-Making Styles and When to Use Them
Sometimes leaders make bad decisions or harm team morale by making autocratic decisions without involving others. And other times they waste their team's time by unnecessarily involving them. How do you know when and how much to involve your team in decisions?...
How the Benefits of Team Vision Can Revitalize Your Team
Has team performance been less than spectacular lately? Has team energy been waning? It might be time to rekindle your team vision. Sometimes teams assume that their vision will continue to guide them, and they can get caught in team drift without realizing it. Taking...
Vision is about being great…
Thursday Thoughts You can't win a race by looking sideways. You are likely to stumble or get off track. You need to keep your eyes focused on your destination. If your vision is about beating the competition, what happens once you beat them? Where do you go...