How To Get Your People To Change Today
I talk to executives almost daily about problems they have with their employees. Employees seem to do what they want to do. In a few cases it is defiance. In most cases these problems are caused by a lack of effective leadership. Many managers have no idea how train, mentor, and motivate their people to […]
How To Improve Your Leadership Under Pressure
Have you ever lost your cool in way that had negative consequences? Have you ever read/misread a comment from a subordinate and completely over-reacted in your immediate response? Have you ever sent and email meticulously expressing your indignation in response to a co-workers email or actions only to regret it later? I have. In most […]
What Is Innattentional Blindness Costing You?
Have you ever gone to a movie when the theater was packed and you scanned the theater for open seats? You finally find them and take your seats. After the movie, you run into some friends who happened to be at the same show. They said they had two seats next to them and were […]
Is The Fundamental Attribution Error Destroying Your Team?
Learn How You May Be Destroying Trust on Your Team and Five Steps To Strengthen Your Team. Often, we judge ourselves and our actions by our intentions, rather than our impact. However, we judge others by what we believe their intentions to be and their impact. This double standard for judgment is a problem. As a leader you […]
How To Make A Stronger Impression
One thing you are doing is hurting your efforts to make a strong impression in sales, networking, or job hunting. This one simple change will improve your approach. Have you ever wanted to make a stronger impression? Either during a job interview, landing a new account, on a first date, making a speech or presentation […]
One Reason We Struggle With Emotional Intelligence And What To Do About It
I became interested in emotional intelligence for several reasons: I have been an executive for over 26 years. In that time, I noticed reoccurring behavior patterns in myself and in those I worked with, that were getting in our way. I have been married for 31 years and I have become aware that my need […]
How Asking Questions Strengthens Your Team
Effective Questions Help You Motivate, Coach, Mentor, Challenge, Engage, Discover, Understand and Improve So often leaders feel they need to tell their employees what to do and answer all their questions. This can cause them to miss valuable opportunities to help teach and develop their people. By asking your people to come up with their own […]
One Reason a Healthy Culture is Essential
Are you having a hard time attracting the best talent? Here is one reason and one thing that will help.
Act As If…Today!!!
Experience the fulfillment and happiness of achieving your future goals, your new year’s resolutions TODAY! Over the years I have learned a principle of success called “act as if”. Believe, think, act, dress, talk and feel like someone who has already achieved success. The idea is to begin to program your subconscious to find ways […]
The Power of Accountability
5 Steps to Achieve the Outcomes You Desire Through Greater Responsibility There is great power in being accountable, which means being responsible or answerable, to yourself, your family, your employees, your employer, your faith, your cause, etc. In this article accountability and responsibility are interchangeable. Being accountable will help you be more fulfilled at work […]