PART TWO: Building Team Health with Collaboration In my last blog, I talked about how building a great foundation for healthy teams starts with the intention of leaders. To be successful with our teams we need honesty, and to be truly honest people need to feel safe. This incredible gray area between micromanagement and ghost…
PART ONE: Building with Intention We all know that leadership roles at any organization come with heaps of responsibility: there are metrics to be analyzed, budgets to be tracked, and progress to be continuously measured and questioned. It is a constant journey that never ends, but we push forward with the hope that we’ll be…
It’s About Who You Are So, who are you? Aside from the title and position that you hold, how are you describing yourself? Understanding who you are, beyond just the title you hold, is extremely important as it helps you build confidence and stronger relationships with those around you – there’s no faking it –…
Theory of 10-80-10 Take a moment and think about how you react to crisis and unexpected changes that come to your professional and personal life. What energy do you bring to these situations? We all like to think that in time of crisis or big changes we know how to react and what to do….
Do you know who you inspire? Do you realize how many people are watching what you are doing and being inspired each day by your words and actions? For many of us, it’s not something we think about daily, but we are having an impact. There are people who watch what we are doing and…
Power of Empathy What’s one thing you can do to significantly impact your chance of success? Practice more Empathy. Empathy is no longer looked at as just a soft skill, but something that is increasingly necessary for leaders and managers to increase their effectiveness and drive high performance from their teams. For many people, they…
Leaders Who Learn “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollar Leaders are not all created equal. In the world of leadership training and development there is one key factor that I have seen as a…
Return on Relationships Does it feel like everything is so much more complicated than it needs to be in our lives lately? What if we could give less attention to all the noise, drama and complication and focus on the one thing that drives real happiness? I read about a study completed with a group…
I work and interact everyday with Entrepreneurs, Business Owners and Business Leaders who are good at what they do. But one thing I have noticed with 80% of them is that they don’t invest in themselves. They spend their time and energy on everyone and everything else – their employees, their business, their community groups,…
