Why Your Team Can’t Innovate When You Want Ideas and Try to Help
When Your Team Can’t Innovate It May Be Because of Your “Help” New ideas have a life cycle. Many senior leaders jump in to help their teams refine, grow, or prune an idea before they’re ready – and as a result, their teams can’t...
How to Leverage Your Skills with the Most Valuable Leadership Practice
What’s your most valuable leadership practice? At the start of our work together, we’ll ask leaders and managers around the world for their most valuable leadership practice. There are several answers that consistently rise to the top, including clarity, vision,...
Don’t Get Lost or Hurt: The Vital Role of Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Balancing leadership strategy and tactics is critical for leaders at every level of an organization When you don’t pay enough attention to strategy, you and your team end up lost in a wilderness of meaningless, unproductive busyness. However, when you don’t pay...
When Goal Setting Demotivates Your Team and Kills Their Spirit
Goal Setting Will Energize People When You Avoid These Common Mistakes Effective goal setting brings out the best in people. But if people can’t “win”, don’t feel their work matters, don’t understand why a goal exists, and feel tossed around without a strong...
