There’s not a moment to lose when it comes to the trust on your team. You can’t accomplish anything sustainable without trust. This is how you move the needle on productivity. Here’s the hard truth: when there’s a CRACK at the TOP of an organization, it creates a...
If you’ve never practiced one-on-ones as a leader, it’s probably one of the most effective strategies for TRUST-BUILDING and for proactively finding and addressing issues. For those who have never practiced this, here’s how to get started: Schedule a mutually...
I was on a coaching call recently with a senior leader who had learned that “corporate” came up with a new set of company values and had instructed each location to “roll them out.” This senior leader was not involved in the process of developing these new values, nor...
Many HR professionals deal with constant stress in their jobs. Why? Because they are dealing with what seems like never ending “people problems” that arise among employees, leaders AND teams. But, what if it didn’t have to be this way? People who become leaders and...
Why? You name the reason. We’ve all been there. One of my coaching mottos for leaders is: “Be curious, not furious,” and it came in handy for one leader when he was *ALMOST* triggered. In this leader’s regular one-on-ones with his employees, he had one employee in...
Since the best leaders are WELL-ROUNDED leaders, consider where you are in each one… FIRST, there’s the INTELLIGENCE quotient. (IQ) This is the measure of cognitive intelligence, including abilities such as problem-solving, abstract reasoning, and logical...
