6 Uncommon Ways Leaders Need To Build Employee Trust and Commitment
There have been myriads of articles and posts written about how leaders can best build commitment and a culture of trust among their employees. Many of those methods are proven and well-studied. But...
View ArticleHow To Tell Your People They’re Worthless
A colleague of mine many years ago had an interesting approach to observing and grading her staff’s performance. We used a standardized form to grade each person’s job performance on their respective...
View ArticleGuest Post From Jim Haudan – Great Leadership Secrets from Michelangelo and...
This guest post is from Jim Haudan, the CEO of Root, Inc., a renowned strategy and culture change organization that helps other companies “get their strategy out of the boardroom and into the hearts...
View ArticleHow Open Book Leadership Builds Trust
Some time ago I conducted a training session for a number of restaurant employees. I prefaced my training session with an explanation of how restaurants made money, and that the average restaurant...
View ArticleWhy Slow Learners May Be Ready For Rapid Growth
In virtually every organization there are people who seem to never learn or grow. Oftentimes we classify them as disengaged, subversive, or troublemakers, and look to dismiss them. I have observed...
View Article#ThursdayThought – Encouraging Other Leaders
Last week Square CFO Sarah Friar announced she was departing to take the helm as CEO of Nextdoor. In response, Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square (and Twitter) sent her a series of encouraging texts to prepare...
View ArticleWhy You Need To Be Self-Aware AND Others-Aware
Self-Awareness has been a vital part of leadership for a handful of years. But being self-aware is not enough. Great leaders need to focus on being “Others-Aware”. Leaders do not operate in a vacuum,...
View ArticleDo You Know How to Avoid the Leadership Killer?
TODAY IS THE LAUNCH OF THE NEW BOOK “THE LEADERSHIP KILLER” BY BILL TREASURER AND JOHN HAVLIK. THEY HAVE CONTRIBUTED TODAY’S POST AS A TEASER FOR THIS TIMELY LOOK INTO THE STATE OF LEADERSHIP. THIS...
View Article#ThursdayThought – How Your Words Build Or Tear Down
The power of the spoken word is immense. It has the ability to inspire, motivate and lead others to an amazing effect. It also has the ability to humiliate destroy and the more allies a person is...
View ArticleExperts Don’t Need Letters After Their Name
Over the weekend I came across a series of content by a leadership author who heavily discounted what they would proclaim as so-called leadership experts. As I mulled over their claims, I realized how...
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