August 17, 2020

Your team is counting on your best leadership, here’s how to bring it

Leaders prepare to lead a team by finding a routine that helps them think intentionally about what their people need, what good would look like today, and how to spend their time so that they make the biggest difference they can.

August 10, 2020

If Policies Worked, Management Would Be a Lot Easier

Most people don’t show up to do the wrong thing everyday, despite how it might feel some days. Most people are doing their best given the habits they have, the thoughts they have, the intentions they have, and the clarity they have.

August 3, 2020

Don’t React Your Way Into Bad Management

Making our team dance to the beat of our insecurities, impulses, habits and needs is one of the quickest ways to cause them to want to work for someone else instead, and to spend more of their time telling friends and others what a terrible leader we are.

July 27, 2020

3 Ways to Measure the Effectiveness of Your Coaching

To get better at something, we need to know what good looks like and have a picture of that thing in our head. If you want to get better at something, you start with that picture in your mind, and then you practice to work toward it.

July 20, 2020

The Leader's Battle Between Choice and Impulse

Leadership, in any setting, is a constant, almost never-ending battle it seems between what is in the person’s best interest and what we feel like doing in the moment.


July 13, 2020

Leaders Make Better Teachers While they are Learning

Learning as a leader is essential to our continuous improvement. For most of us, one of the real drivers of why we want to lead in the first place is because we get a bigger chance to help others as part of how we spend our life.

July 8, 2020

Raising the Bar on How We Think as Managers

If I could work with a team as a manager and along the way I could improve their performance, their capability, and their engagement just by thinking and acting differently while I do my job, why would I settle for being a manager who just got his or her team to do the work?

June 29, 2020

Why I Built the Leadership Gym

Whether you want to lead yourself, your team, a function, an entire business or even a family or a community at a higher level, we will be there to help.

June 24, 2020

Closing the Knowing-Doing Gap in Leadership

The knowing-doing gap in leadership is just as real as it is in other areas of our world. Knowing something creates possibilities but without focused and organized action, they remain possibilities. And while possibilities are important, eventually we want them to turn into actualities if we are going to achieve progress.

June 17, 2020

Telling vs. Helping

Do you ever feel like the quickest and most efficient way of communicating and increasing productivity is telling others the direction they should be moving in, instead of helping them find their own path to the outcome they want? We've all been there. However, there is a better way to create change and have greater impact as a leader.

June 4, 2020

Helping Others Build Confidence

There are a few key things to consider as we think about helping anyone build confidence. While confidence can appear to be an overarching personality trait, it is actually more task specific in many cases.

Effective Leaders Think Strategically, and So Can You

I have often heard leaders tell me that to get to the next level, or sometimes to get their business to the next level, they need to be more strategic.  Usually the conversation happens because someone gave them that feedback.  And it’s true, the more of an organization you lead, the more strategic you have


Effective Leaders Think Strategically, and So Can You

I have often heard leaders tell me that to get to the next level, or sometimes to get their business to the next level, they need to be more strategic.  Usually the conversation happens because someone gave them that feedback.  And it’s true, the more of an organization you lead, the more strategic you have