Communication, Friendship, Leadership
6 Great Reasons Why CEOs Need To Hold Their Employees Accountable
We are working on several coaching projects where CEOs struggle to hold their team members accountable. When we ask these leaders why they don’t hold employees accountable to do the things they are responsible for…
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Communication, Employee Engagement, Executive Coaching, Friendship
Leading Employees Through High Levels of Change
Living in a COVID world has created a lot of new changes. Some changes have been implemented and then changed again within hours or days. One employee who stated he had “change fatigue,” told his…
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Friendship
Combating Imposter Syndrome
Have you ever felt like you weren’t qualified enough for a position or didn’t deserve it? Have you ever felt like a fraud? These feelings are congruent with imposter syndrome, which can overwhelmingly affect a…
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Friendship
Is Your Staff Cross-Trained?
Would your organization survive if you lost a key employee? Through our employee surveys, team assessments and coaching, we hear clients frequently say that their organization has silos. Sometimes they indicate it is just certain…
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Friendship
Is Your Workplace Psychologically Safe?
In our advisory work with executives, we often help leaders through some difficult conversations they need to have. Recently, one executive we are working with was faced with a particularly difficult conversation he needed to…
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Friendship
Negotiation is a Life Skill
What I love about the topic of negotiation is that many people look at me and tell me, ‘You know what? I’m not a negotiator,’ or ‘I don’t do it very well.’ Other people, just…
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Communication, Friendship, Leadership
Are Your Coworkers Driving You CRAZY!
Do you have people on your team that drive you nuts? In twenty years of consulting, I have learned that people described as “difficult” often times are not difficult at all, they are just different in their interaction and communication style. As a leader, your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to …
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Friendship, Leadership, Quest Newsletter
Ethical Leadership: A new kind of poverty?
Every day we are bombarded with news about decisions made by leaders that cause us to question their integrity and ethics. So much so that we have banned the news in our home, especially after 7:00 p.m., to stave off the restlessness that comes with this kind of news and in the hopes of getting a sound …
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Friendship, Negotiating Tactics, Negotiation, The Master Negotiator
3 Keys to Achieving a Win-Win Outcome
Have you ever walked away from a negotiation thinking, “I will never do business with this person again!” If so, you probably felt like you lost big time. Although great negotiators drive a hard bargain,…
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Friendship
Retaining Top Talent and the Role of Exit Interviews
The ultimate goal of every organization is to retain their top talent. And yet, every company loses employees. The best organizations make understanding the reasons employees leave part of their strategic plan. They keep their…
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