Is Your Team Prepared for a Safety Emergency?
I was about to start my presentation, and was told that we couldn’t begin until we had “the safety briefing.” I was intrigued. The team went into a well-orchestrated checklist delegating contingency emergency assignments and ensuring that everyone...
A Thanksgiving Challenge
This Thanksgiving I’m giving myself a bit of a challenge. Here’s why. A Thanksgiving Story I cried as I read his note. I’ve been wrestling with how to share this with you ever since. I thought about writing about it generically but that fell flat. I...
7 Strategic Questions Your Team Should Be Able to Answer
How to Help Your Team Think More Strategically With 7 Strategic Questions I’ve never met a leader who said, “My team is just too strategic. I wish they’d focus more on the TPS reports and less on big-picture thinking.” Nope. More often, it’s the opposite: “How do I...
6 Simple Techniques to Help Your Employees See the Big Picture
Help Your Team See the Bigger Picture to Contribute Better Ideas and Feel More Connected Most of the time when executives tell me their team is “not strategic,” the real challenge is they just don’t have enough information to see the bigger picture....
