Coaching Others, and That Unique Relationship, Will Make You a Better Leader and Human How to Coach Others The activity of coaching, for me, is like a relationship meditation. Those who’ve received coaching at any level will find great benefit. However, what most...
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Identifying and Evolving High Potential Employees (HiPos)
How to Identify and Evolve High Potential Employees (HiPos) The Pareto principle suggests that 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes. This is true for the best and brightest on your team. Good leaders know this and put in an outsized effort to recognize and...
Really Great Teams Realize Psychological Safety
Really Great Executive Teams Realize Psychological Safety For all of us to be at our best as a team and individual contributors, we need to be confident, motivated, and have the ability to be in the arena, as Theodore Roosevelt understood. We need to engage our peers...
The Five Components of Confidence
How we embrace our own strength and power can make all the difference in our effectiveness and enjoyment about the things we do. Confidence is a mindset that we can control and embrace to demonstrate that strength and power. In our last blog, we defined confidence and...
What is Confidence?
What Is Confidence? How to Build Confidence If I could gift anybody a tool to build success and a strong well-being, it would be a sense of confidence. However, confidence is something that only we can build for ourselves. And it’s never totally resolved. If we always...
Embrace Personal Agency in the Workplace
More workers than ever are trying to find the right work-life balance and well-being at work. There are several movements like the Great Resignation and Quiet Quitting aimed to revolutionize the worker’s power in the workplace. However, such actions may not be...
Decision-Making Insights
This summer, Elon Musk made headlines with his direct proclamation that Tesla employees must return to the office for a minimum of 40 hours a week. His remark of “If you don’t show up, we will assume you have resigned,” has drawn criticism from other CEOs and...
2011 Reflection
As 2021 comes to a close, it is an important time for reflection. This time of reflection provides us an opportunity to revisit this video from 2011. In this video, I project what the future of work might look like. Whether insightful or fortuitous, many of my...
The Great Resignation or Worker’s Revolution?
Lessons Learned from COVID The COVID-19 pandemic has taught organizational leaders a number of lessons. As cases and infections ebb and flow, new challenges are placed at the feet of these leaders. The leading challenge has been coined “the great resignation” – or...
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