How To Reset Your Team's Expectations
In Friday’s post, How To Transform Mid-Team, we talked about you how prepare your team for your evolving leadership style. But what if you also have new expectations for your team? Not only are you evolving, but you need them to as well. That’s even more...
How to Transform Mid-Team
The best time to transform to a radically new leadership style is when you start fresh with a new team. But that’s not always practical or feasible. You’ve been reading blogs and books, watched webinars, and received some 360 feedback—but your team...
When Your Inner Voice Grabs the Mic
As leaders self-talk is important. We must listen to our inner voice. But what if our inner voice gets scared and wants to grab the mic? What if our inner voice wants too much affirmation? What if our inner voice needs excessive feedback? Can an extraverted inner...
Advice on Advice
What’s the best advice you’ve ever received? Ever given? What advice do you wish you had ignored? What guidance do you wish you could retract? “Advice is like snow; the softer it falls the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it seeks into the...
Frontline Finance Fundamentals: How To Talk With Your Team about Money
Do you bore your team with finance slides full of terms they may not understand? Does your frontline team know how your business makes money? Do they understand enough about the basic financials of your business to make the right decisions? If they have...
An Attitude of Ordeal or Adventure?
Today I begin a month-long speaking tour at kickoff events around the country, 5 events this week. As I pack my bag for this 6500 mile trip, I’m feeling excited, optimistic, energized and nervous. “Cock your hat. Angles are attitudes.” ~Frank Sinatra...
A Groundhog Day Blessing or Curse?
My parents have a wonderful Groundhog Day tradition. That’s when they celebrate their love with snuggly stuff and romantic gestures. Somehow, early on, they preempted Valentines Day, and it stuck. Hey, it was the 60s, who needs Hallmark when you have a...
Why Can’t You See The Big Picture?
I was doing my normal juggling of “leader” and “mom” roles. I was feeling pretty good about the “mom” part as I drove to the stadium that night. Sure I was on a conference call the whole way there, but I pulled into the parking lot...
