Two simple life hacks to reduce personal stress. CONTROL, ATL, DELETE and shutting down the background apps that are draining energy.

Executive coaching should model the changes expected of the coachee. By shifting to an unconventional venue, the coachee can feel liberated and begin to make the changes required to improve performance.

While helping to select mentors for The Sandbox non-profit, I learned a valuable lesson from a 14 year old mentor candidate. Serving others is the key to effective leadership and our youth understand it, but adults often forget the power of servant leadership.

A commitment to learning and developing are key to an effective coaching engagement. There have a been a few coaching failures that I have learned from and they all had one thing in common; a lack of commitment from the coachee.

As a senior executive are you carrying too much of the burden for your organization on your shoulders?

Meetings are the death of work productivity.  According to various sources there are 25 million meetings per day in the United States.  That amounts to $37 billion in annual productivity lost as a result of meetings.  Just yesterday I heard another example of a senior team in a large publicly traded company holding a three-hour meeting to plan for a full day meeting.  The tyranny must end.  

Is there a correlation between being self-aware and being wise? The better we know ourselves the more effective we can be at leading ourselves and others.

In business we often talk about the iceberg theory and the fact that more lies beneath the surface, but to witness it firsthand and to take away new learnings in Iceland was even more impressive.

A lot has been written about capitalizing on ones strengths, but owning ones weaknesses is equally important. Phoebe Nixon explores why in her guest post.

Top athletes rely on their individual coaches to boost performance.  Why don't more business leaders rely on coaches.  Coaching is best suited for experts.

Organization design is dictated by market conditions and expands and contracts much like an accordion based on the financial landscape.

Design choices are made daily and many of them lead to poor efficiency and waste.  While redesigning websites I learned an important lesson about UX.

More companies need to take the time to get leadership teams out of the office.  A corporate retreat is an excellent opportunity for a team to bond and to learn together.  Groove Management's sister company LeaderSurf recently launched customized corporate retreats leveraging the success of the LeaderSurf leadership development program.

Capture participant learnings with this simple workshop ending activity.

As we enter the new year, we start the year with the best of intentions.  We are like the frogs on the log.  We decide to do something and make it our new year’s resolution.  We proclaim it to our friends and family.  “This is the year that I will:”

Meet Charles Hunt the "Unbreakable" TEDxCharlotte speaker.  Charles has an amazing story of overcoming the odds and a message to everyone who has ever felt down, but not out.

Learning to give and receive feedback effectively is one of the most powerful skills a leader can learn.  The feedback piggy bank is an easy concept to grasp, but one that takes practice to implement.

Five Charlotte are team building activities that Groove Management can help you organize and facilitate.

Know it alls make the worst leaders.  The best leaders ask great questions.

An execution mindset separates the best from the rest.  "I go through" is not just a song by O.A.R. but an attitude for success.