Never miss a chance to lead

Discover three ways leaders can help their teams change their thinking and focus on finding success instead of what may be holding them back.

Good leaders who want to change the future of a team or business in a sustainable way must help people become, rather than do.

If people struggle to follow you, you will always struggle to lead, but you get to make choices that help others engage with you, connect to you and accomplish more because of you.

There is no more important thing a leader can do than consider, plan for, and practice effective conversations with others that they lead.

I came across some research recently that said managers spend 17% of their time dealing with problem employees.  That’s pretty much one day a week that they feel is lost

Several years ago I was teaching a leadership workshop for a group of managers, and part of my team was teaching selling skills to their sales reps at the same

Coaching skills are essential to good leadership and they build a strong foundation for helping anyone accomplish more.

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.

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.

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.

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.