Employee Engagement, Leadership, Leading Change
When Top Performers Lose Their Edge
What do you do as a leader when your top-performing employees lose their focus and motivation? If members of your team are not as engaged as they once were, several factors could be impacting their…
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Great Leaders Love Being Uncomfortable!
I am fond of the words, “Great leaders get bored quickly.” As I have studied great leaders, I have observed that once they learn to do something, they love delegating what they have learned to…
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How to Build a Culture Rich in Creativity and Innovation
Many managers are proficient in leading a team that has a solid reputation for maintaining the status quo and producing consistent, high quality results. These managers lead teams that are good at making small incremental…
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Can you Change your Company Culture?
There’s a lot of talk about cultures these days, and for good reason. Culture is the collective values, behaviors and habits displayed by those who work for the organization. While two competitive organizations may have…
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Small Decisions and their Big Impact
Most of us are well aware of the big decisions we have made and the significant impact those decisions have had in our lives. The decision to attend a university and graduate is a big…
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Playing it Safe Might Be the Riskiest Strategy
A senior level manager we are coaching shared with me a powerful story. One of her peers had secretly confessed to her that she was leaving the company after she received her annual bonus check….
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How All Leaders Can Embrace Technological Change
According to Michael Cox, vice president and chief economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, the rate of technological adoption spreading throughout the population is incrementally speeding up. While it took over 25 years…
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Change is All About Perspective
What’s the difference between seeing a change as negative or positive? Your world view. Your attitude. The only thing you have 100% control over is your attitude. Everything else happens around us, happens to us,…
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Strong Leaders Continuously Learn
The world and the economy are changing in ways that make most people say, “I have never seen times as challenging as these.” As we have said before, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.”…
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10 Ways Organizations Can Stay Relevant
Thirty years ago, when you had a unique product, you knew you were probably going to be safe from a competitive price war for two or three years. Today, the time it takes a competitor…
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