August 12, 2021
It wasn't too long ago that during a coaching session a director level leader said to me “I can’t be friends with them, I have to be their boss.” It’s not a new sentiment. Many managers think they have to choose between having a supervisory role in a business and being friends or friendly with
May 25, 2021
I was working with a leader a while back and she wanted to create more collaborative meetings in her business. Her definition of success for these meetings was that people came with creative ideas, shared them freely, and the business came up with better solutions and built a stronger team through the collaborative process. She did
February 2, 2021
One of the words I hear more and more these days as I work with leaders and business owners is “stress”. The challenges of leadership are always significant, but now many leaders are having to cope with leading remotely, struggling or dramatically changing business environments, and a team that is also increasingly stressed. As leaders,
January 19, 2021
Leadership is overwhelmingly about the future. It’s the reason leaders even need to exist. If the future wasn’t important or couldn’t be changed, there would be no need for leaders at all. It’s often been said that leaders need to peer into the future to see it ahead of time. Or they need to be able
January 13, 2021
Much of leadership is about making choices. Sometimes when there are choices to be made, we start to make decisions based on the amount of discomfort involved with the solution. It’s a natural thing to do. If we think this is the right way to solve a problem, help a person on our team improve,
November 4, 2020
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 to the time associated with people who are doing a poor job. If you have a management role and I asked what you would choose to
October 21, 2020
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 meeting. Part of that selling class involved the sales reps writing down their personal and professional goals as a foundation for the work they were
September 23, 2020
Download Fitness Plan Linked Content Leadership Workout: The Coaching Process - Step 4 Click the PDF icon above to access the fitness plan. If you have not watched the linked Leadership Workout above, it is very helpful to watch the video and then work through the fitness plan to support you as you implement the leadership