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Sauna Time: The Heat of The Moment
A sauna might provide the oasis you seek to free your mind from technology while also benefitting your body. In this post I explore my challenge of tapping into my creativity and the benefits I have found in using a sauna.
Are You A Single Point Of Success?
Scaling a business requires a shift in mindset and skills. What got you here won’t get you there. Let’s explore what it takes to successfully scale a business.
What Are The Key Steps To Scaling Up A Team?
As revenue grows, there is increased pressure on teams to scale up as well. There are key steps required to scale a team and an organization. In this blog post we explore the key steps.
What is your ROT (Return on Time)?
Time is the great equalizer. We all have the same 24 hours in a day. How we leverage our time determines our level of success and value. What is your ROT?
Sharpen Your Carrots
Striking the right balance between praise and punishment with employees is a challenge for most leaders. The term to sharpen your carrots is Groove Management’s way of helping leaders to remember to strike the right balance.
Organizational Swim Lanes and Silos
There is a balance that must be achieved in an organization or else too much structure can turn organizational swim lanes into silos.
Do You Dissect Your Successes?
We tend to focus too much energy on figuring out the root cause of what went wrong and not enough time on what went right. Learning to dissect successes is a business practice that can accelerate an organization’s growth.
Is The Most Effective Leadership Style Within Your Reach?
What is your mental capacity to reach with your leadership style. We are all clear on our physical limitations, but what is our ability to stretch our style when it comes to leading ourselves and others?
Are You on the Naughty List?
My naughty list is comprised of people who are unresponsive. Responsiveness is a trait of successful leaders.
BACK TO SCHOOL: A WELCOME RETURN TO STRUCTURE AND ROUTINES
Structure and planning leads to much more consistent performance both for our children, our families and our work teams. Predictable results require a disciplined approach.
An Interview with Erik Rydholm the man behind Pardon The Interruption
Erik Rydholm the executive producer and creator of Pardon the Interruption (PTI) shares the backstory on the visual agenda and how his time at the Motley Fool helped create one of ESPN’s longest running hit TV shows.
Office Monsters or Culture Crusaders?
If you want employees to return to the office are you framing the ask properly? CNBC has been calling Wall Street CEOs Office Monsters. What if they referred to them as Culture Crusaders instead and focused on the positives? Would that change the dialogue?
Do You Delegate Tasks or Responsibility?
There is a natural challenge between delegating tasks and delegating responsibility. The best leaders have learned to empower their team members by delegating ownership rather than tasks. This article explore the differences between delegating task and responsibilities
Why There is No Such Thing as Micro-Leadership
We have all heard of micro-management, but the term micro-leadership doesn’t exist. Why is there so much confusion between leadership and management?
There Are No Trading Deadlines in Business
Sports teams create advantage through constant personnel moves. Business teams tend to play multiple seasons with the same team. Are there lessons to be learned from the sports model?
Embrace your Kryptonite
We all have weaknesses, but few of us are open to admitting what they are. Referring to weaknesses as our Kryptonite changes the dialogue to a more approachable subject and makes weaknesses more acceptable. After all even superman has his weakness.
DO YOU WEAR A MASK DAILY OR JUST FOR HALLOWEEN?
Do you wear a mask for physical or psychological safety? Authentic leadership is about being genuine in your actions. Halloween and the idea of donning a costume to be someone you are not brings to mind the concept of authentic leadership. While it is fun to dress up for Halloween and wear a mask, I wonder how many of us really get to be our authentic selves at work? Do you have to wear a mask to work each day to fit in with your corporate culture or can you be your true self?
How to Turn Threats Into Opportunities
Learn how one team turned an IT outage into an amazing growth opportunity. Most teams are quick to accept threats for what they are, in this case the team turned the threat on its head and created an amazing opportunity. Learn how your organization can reframe threats as opportunities from this story.
The Executive Coach Accountability Partner
As an executive coach one of the important roles that I play for my CEO clients is to be an accountability partner.