Fourth Quarter Readiness: Feedback Needed
As we head toward the fourth quarter, I’d like to pause and check. It’s been a great month, and I want to be sure I am best meeting the needs of our growing community. Frequency Beginning next week, I’m going to experiment with reducing frequency to...
3 Ways To Deliver Tough Messages: A Video
Communicating the hard stuff leaves even the best leaders stressed and queasy. You care deeply about the human beings you support. You don’t mean to play games, but a sprinkle of sugar-coating, with a dollop of “they don’t really need to know this...
Zappos, Leaders, and Cracker Jacks
Zappos has so many folks looking to benchmark their magic, that they offer a menu of ways to learn their playbook. Teaching culture has become a revenue stream. While the rest of us carefully guard our best practices, they offer you shot of Grey Goose, and welcome you...The Dumpster Effect: When Your Recognition Program Backfires
Why do some recognition programs backfire? How a Recognition Program Can Do More Harm Than Good We had pulled into the parking lot for a wedding. We were staying on premium points (read that, free) for which I’m grateful, so I won’t disclose the hotel...
7 Ways To Inspire Hope
How do you inspire hope when someone is really stuck? Jason’s Story Jason had all the signs and words of “stuck.” “I can’t.” “No one will help.” “No options.” He’d stopped trying to improve the...
Cross-Training To Strengthen Leadership Skills
Today’s cross-training moment is a guest post from David Tumbarello. When he’s not guest blogging for Let’s Grow Leaders, David provides data and writing solutions in the health care field. The leisure activity he enjoys the most is coaching children...
Impatience As A Leadership Virtue
“Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength” ~ Charles Caleb Colto “Karin, we should be able to have this project done by the end of the year.” I listened impatiently as the team broke down the timeline, contingencies,...6 Ways To Encourage Persistence (Without Crushing Your Team)
Dissect the stories of highly successful people across any context and you’ll find a few things in common: relentless commitment, radical hours, laser focus, tremendous sacrifice, above all that persistence. I’m always inspired by the stories of those...
