How to Help Your Team Get Results FAST
You need to move results– quickly. It’s tempting to try everything you can to make things better. But the all too common “throw everything at the problem and see what helps” approach may make things worse in the long run. Your team will be...
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...
3 Roadblocks You Must Remove For Your Team (before they go insane)
Even if it all feels warm and wonderful, your team needs you to remove roadblocks. If they’re frustrated with stupidity in the organization, they’re frustrated with you. Sure, they appreciate the check-ins about their kid’s soccer victories. And they...
Frontline Festival: Leaders Share about the Power of Gratitude
Welcome back to the Let’s Grow Leaders Frontline Festival. Our November Festival is all about gratitude. Thanks to Joy and Tom Guthrie of Vizwerx Group for the great pic and to all our contributors! Next month, in celebration of the launch of the new Star Wars: the...
5 Reasons Your Team Doesn’t Buy Your Game Plan
Trust me, I’ve seen that look. The #areyouinsane? look. The #whatplanetareyoufrom? grimace. The #thischickisclearlyfromHR lament. The #anddoesnthaveaclue freak out. A few months later, they were all in. Not because of some clever incentive program. Not because...
Are You a Closeted Servant Leader?
Are you afraid to talk about leadership development at work? Would you like to invest more in developing your people, but worry that your boss will pooh pooh the idea? You’re not alone. This week, I had the honor of co-hosting the Online Servant Leadership...
How to Build a High-Performing Team- despite a stack-ranked performance management system
Bell curves bring out the worst in your best. Rewarding individual performance drives individual behavior. Yet most performance management systems do just that. Of course unless you’re running HR, you’re can’t change the system, but you can build...
8 Secrets to Creating a Collaborative Culture
I’ve never met someone who would admit to preferring drama over collaboration. And yet, most cultures have too much drama, too little collaboration. What’s up with that? This weekend we stayed in a beach house in Nags Head with my sister, and 28 of her...
