By Neal Eisenstein, MBA To get through the day, managers reconcile a cauldron of emotions about frustrating events. These events typically involve direct reports or their next level down. When your people fail to communicate or follow through on commitments, frustrations build. In these moments, we tend to over share […]
by Micki K. Lewis MS-MOB, PCC As a leader it is our task to OWN credibility, that’s a given… and how about our teams? How do you help them instill stronger credibility with their teams? How about across the entire organization? Defining credibility is both simple yet complicated. There […]
A critically important leadership skill — and one might argue, a critically important life skill — is the ability to distinguish facts from the interpretation of facts. Exceptional leaders are able to extract facts from the narrative of a story before intentionally considering their meaning. Why is this important? Because […]
By Laura Hansen, PCC Just like a star athlete or a world class musician, leaders who want to develop must master the fundamentals of their craft, says The Center for Creative Leadership (CCL), an international organization focused on research and education in leadership development. A new book by […]
Wait, this isn’t an article about millennials? No, it is not! So much has been said and written about millennials that it’s easy to forget that generation X follows baby boomers in the demographic queue. That fact is critically important because over half of all baby boomers are now in […]
By Dr. Nicole LaBeach, Ph.D., PCC Success requires vision, commitment, consistency, focus, sacrifice, and effort. As leaders, when things go our way we feel accomplished. However, when they turn in another direction we can beat ourselves up with how we missed the mark and how it affects those who […]
(This is the fourth in a series of five articles about building high-performance teams.) If you’ve read our recent articles about vulnerability-based trust, healthy conflict, and commitment for teams, you have the beginnings of a truly outstanding team! What’s next pays huge dividends, but is perhaps the hardest thing for […]
By Danielle Siegel, PCC, LCSW Many of my clients are so consumed by their work that they are struggling to see the bigger picture of life. They are like little gophers working underground and every once in a while, they pop their heads up to see what is […]
(This is the third in a series of five articles about building high-performance teams.) Team performance is judged in large part by the recommendations they put forward and the decisions they make. This includes the small steps that a team makes along the way, and the big decisions that drive […]
By Rachel Verlik, PCC Let’s be real- NO ONE likes having difficult conversations. They can be awkward and uncomfortable, with high stakes and little expertise in having them. And because we don’t like them, we either botch the delivery, get angry, or avoid them altogether. In any of those […]
