By Barb McAllister, M.S., MCC Patrick Lencioni’s book “The Ideal Team Player,” presents an approach very useful for both team coaching and hiring. I really like this book, in part because of the experiences I’ve had managing teams in a large organization, and also...
By Sheeba Varghese, PCC There is just never enough time in the day at least that is what I hear all the time. Time management is a topic that is often the underlying stress for many in leadership. You become everything to everyone and there are so many things and...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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...
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 happening in...