7 Ways to Lead Friends and Former Peers
A Chance to Lead Friends and Peers – How to Succeed Your first leadership role is often challenging: a chance to lead friends and former peers. To succeed, set clear expectations and be fair. My first chance to lead friends didn’t go well: Joe stomped into...
One Easy Way to Encourage Your Team
What is one best practice you would recommend to encourage your team? One Great Way to Encourage Your Team I took my bike to the cycling shop for a quick repair before heading out for a beautiful Saturday afternoon ride in Breckenridge. Recognizing me from the last...
5 Top Leadership Articles for the Week of September 4, 2017
Each week I read a number of leadership articles from various online resources and share them across social media. Here are the five leadership articles readers found most valuable last week. I have added my comment about each article and would like to hear what you...
5 Stages of Manager Soul Loss #WinningWell
Do you feel like you’re losing your soul at work? What is manager soul loss? As we’ve travelled around the world sharing our Winning Well message– that yes, it is possible to get results that last without losing your soul– along with the tools...
Start Here to Inspire Your Team
“David, it’s a mess.” Barb ran her hand through her hair and sighed. “It’s tough to inspire your team when trust is so broken.” She frowned and continued, “I’ve been here 20 days and have met with people at every level and every department, asking...
5 Sentences to Energize and Support Your Volunteers (and everyone is a volunteer)
How do you energize and support your volunteers? A Quick Story I was cycling from Breckenridge, Colorado up Vail Pass on a recent Sunday afternoon. What I hadn’t anticipated was that the Copper Triangle, a major cycling event, was happening at the same time, and...
Frontline Festival: Leaders Share About Team Building (with video)
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. This month’s festival is about team building. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month’s Frontline Festival is all lessons learned,...
How to Survive a Terrible Boss (with video)
How to Survive a Terrible Boss Do you have a terrible boss? Do you feel like it’s taking every ounce of your energy just to survive? I know it doesn’t feel like it now, but approach this temporary situation in your life well, and you’re in the best...
