‘Tis the season when most business leaders start thinking about two things; end of year numbers and employee appreciation. Whether it’s delivered in the form of a bonus, holiday gift, or just a card or email message, we associate the last couple of months of the year with a need to show our gratitude for […]
The world has a long-standing romance with luck. We want to know if you feel lucky, we want luck to be a lady, and we’d like to blame our failure on bad luck even while we take full credit for the lucky bounces that brought success. Do you watch the show Ted Lasso? I’m not a […]
They say the “Great Resignation” is underway. From food service to the C-Suite, employees are leaving for better opportunities, for broader horizons, for more flexible work conditions. But mostly, they’re just leaving because the work they were doing isn’t enough anymore. As I said in this article, I’m more inclined to call this the “Great Awakening.” […]
Recently I was facilitating a team meeting with a client when the discussion started to go off the rails. They are a rapidly growing company in the internet space and the team is extremely motivated to leverage the potential in their market. In this meeting, that motivation was translating to highly charged emotions about the […]
I’ve always been fascinated by people. It’s why my early career focused on marketing, which let me discover so much about what makes us tick and what makes us take action. And it’s why the last decade I’ve focused on coaching and facilitating business success, because it’s in this role that I get to create […]
As leaders and managers, we tend to focus on things we can measure. And the capacity of human beings is immeasurable. Maybe that’s why so many business leaders fail to focus on their people when they sit down to create a strategic plan. But think about this: all the things you measure – from top-line […]
I think it’s a safe bet that you have, at some point in your career, been part of a toxic team. I know I’ve had what felt like more than my fair share of that experience and I have yet to talk with anyone who doesn’t know how that feels. Have you ever noticed that […]
Your success as a business leader will most likely come down to a series of human moments. What are human moments? That’s what I call those unpredictable events when our humanity really comes to the surface. I have had so many managers and leaders tell me that those human moments are what they dread most […]
You might think you have a healthy team. However, much like a stress test is the real measurement of heart health in a performance situation, team health issues are usually overlooked until the team is under pressure. That’s when imbalances and toxic tendencies will become evident, causing what seemed to be a healthy team to […]