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...
How to Stop Procrastinating and Manage Your Scarcest Resource
Peter Drucker, often considered the father of modern management, described time as a “unique, irreplaceable and necessary resource.” Noting that most people take time for granted, Drucker observed, “Nothing else, perhaps, distinguishes effective executives as...
The Shadow Side of Leadership
Once you've been in a leadership role for awhile, you develop a leadership style that is comfortable. You begin to relax in that role, feeling you are at the top of the learning curve and confident that you know how to be a leader. Beware! This is the slipperiest spot...
25 Powerful Coaching Questions to Get Where You Want to Go
Coaching is not just for problems. Coaching helps you avoid problems by providing space to think and be more intentional about your goals and actions. And coaching is especially helpful for getting clarity on where you want to go. Working with a coach gives you: •...
Why You’re So Lousy at Problem Solving
Guest Post by Nat Greene Humans have done a good enough job solving problems throughout the ages--otherwise we would not have made it to 7 billion people on the planet. Bravo. But countless problems still plague humankind. Some are problems in your life, like staying...
Clear Values Are a Business Imperative
It's springtime! The trees are beginning to bud, and soon they will be in full bloom. I am reminded of the "great tree service debacle" several years ago. We had several beautiful trees that required spraying to ward off disease and bugs. Our tree service would come...