People Don’t Just Leave Bad Bosses.

Flexibilty in Leadership

They Leave Leaders Who Never Saw Their Potential. There was a stretch of my career when I came home from work drained and dejected more often than not. I worked for managers who were more focused on office politics than on production, and who seemed to look right past me. My wife, Jana, would get […]

How Asking Questions Strengthens Your Team

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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 […]

Disengagement And The “Love What You Do” Myth

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5 Dynamics of Increased Engagement I am not sure how many times I have heard the saying, “If you do what you love, you’ll never work a day in your life.” (Marc Anthony) If you are like me, you have heard this or something like it a bunch. When I heard this, I felt inspired to […]