Communication, Leadership, Leading Change
Leading in a Coronavirus Crisis
There is no better time to emerge as the leader than in the middle of a crisis. Whether the crisis is the loss of a major customer, the main server failing, the price of your…
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Are You a Good Decision Maker?
A manager we are coaching told us that they had been researching buying new software for their organization for close to two years. This leader was highly analytical and did not want to make the…
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Do You Have a Million Dollar Problem and You Don’t Even Know It?
In a recent organizational assessment our firm did for a client who wanted to improve their organization’s culture, several employees told us in the interviews that they felt little hope the culture would improve and…
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The “Either-Or” Trap
Have you ever had an employee tell you: “I can do it correctly, or I can do it on time, but not both.” My kids use this on me all the time, “I can do…
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10 Strategies to Increase Retention and Engagement
There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only two ways your employees can leave an organization. Sometimes it is physically, as in moving on to a competitor, which is manageable;…
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Five Secrets to Keeping Your Top Performers Happy
Frequently, we are asked to work with teams that are experiencing low levels of motivation and morale. When we ask managers to describe their most demotivated and unengaged employees, they typically refer to them as…
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Effectively Leading Organizational Change, Part 4
What Shapes Our Attitude Toward Change – And What Can You Do About It? We are currently working with several organizations in the midst of implementing major changes. In each situation, the organizations have good…
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Effectively Leading Organizational Change, Part 3
leading an unwanted change One of the most difficult challenges leaders need to accomplish is implementing a change that they are not in support of or a change that they know their direct reports are…
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Effectively Leading Organizational Change, Part 2
Eight Things the Best-of-the-Best Leaders Do to Lead Change Over the last twenty-three years, we have conducted over 300 Employee Opinion Surveys with over 100,000 employees. We have learned a lot by isolating the Best…
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10 Foolproof Ways to Guard against Leadership Ignorance
We are almost halfway through the year and it is a good time to ask yourself, ”How have you grown in the first half of this year?” “What have you learned that you did not…
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