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
How to Identify and Evolve High Potential Employees 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...
Your Worst Manager Could Have Been Your Best
If you ask yourself who was the best leader you ever worked for, it quite possibly was someone who was direct, gave you bad news, and honest with you when no one else was. They also cared enough. We often can misjudge people who on the surface seem “tough”, when they...
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...
Time Management Insights
In a recent Making Sense podcast by Sam Harris featuring Oliver Burkeman titled Time Management for Mortals, Oliver Burkeman challenges how we understand and process time management. One of the main takeaways from this program is that time management is an illusion....
Coming Together with a Remote Workforce
This summer, Axios wrote a piece on the future of corporate retreats and why they are needed now more than ever. As more companies stay with a remote-first workforce, engaging employees in a sense of community/connectedness is more difficult. In the pre-COVID office...
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...
Transformation – Get Out of Its Way
Transformation – Get Out of Its Way General George S. Patton once said, “…Lead me, follow me or get out of the way.” Today, more than ever, that famous quote takes on new meaning as we transform the way that modern workers both lead and follow. Looking at the business...
Leadership Is Not a Solo Sport – Part 2
In our last blog, we discussed how leadership is not a solo effort. We talked about how it is important to build a collaborative environment and gain organizational commitment. So, if leadership is not a solo sport, then it must be a team sport. Working as a team is...
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