The Secret Behind the 9 Box Performance Potential Grid
Do you know which box you’re in on the performance potential grid? Do you know performance-potential conversations are having and what it takes to get to box 9? “Our cultural instinct is to wait to get picked…No one is going to pick you. Pick...
5 Secrets to a Kick-Butt Kickoff (how to host a motivational meeting)
Are you looking to host a kickoff meeting to inspire and motivate your team? When’s the last time you got the whole crowd together to rally around the vision, celebrate progress and have a little fun? What if you got this note in your email today (I did)?...
Volunteer and Grow? Side Effects of Volunteering
Has volunteering made you a better leader? As I was getting established in my career, going to grad school at night, and becoming a mom, I kept thinking (and saying), “I just don’t have time to volunteer.” Sure, I would bake the cupcakes or volunteer...
Is Your "Nice" Leadership Style Counter-Productive?
Have you ever had a boss that what just too nice? Yesterday we talked about “Unnecessary Roughness: What Happens When Leaders are Mean:” On the flip-side what happened when your boss was too nice? Did they inspire? How were results? Nice feels great but...
Unnecessary Roughness: What Happens When Leaders are Mean
A side effect of being a leadership blogger is that people go out of their to tell me stories of “bad leadership.” Unfortunately bad leaders are everywhere, and show up in all kinds of organizations. Lately my readers and others have been sending me...
Is This Phone on Mute? 6 Tips for Speaking To Be Heard
Have you ever been in a meeting where 2 people said exactly the same thing but one person got heard and the other did not? Have you ever been on a conference call and felt like you were speaking to the mute button? Perhaps you know that feeling of being ignored....
Are You Developing Your Team’s Mutant Powers?
In some organizations its standard practice to “groom” leaders to adapt to corporate norms. We teach future leaders to speak so they can be heard. We encourage rising stars to capture their ideas just right in the perfect Powerpoint template. We teach them...
The Big Problem with Little White Lies
When’s the last time you sat in a meeting and heard a “little white lie”? Sure, what they presented was “technically” the truth. The statistics they presented were real, but no one walked away with the full story. Perhaps you found...
