What Do You Need of Me?

Mar 19, 2024 | Leadership Development

If your work world of late is similar to that of most of my clients’, you’re busy. You’re really busy. Most days, you’ve come to claim success if you can even start, much less finish, just one item on your ever-growing To Do List. More often than not, your days are a blur of one meeting, email, text, chat message, or call after another, asking or demanding something of you. Someone needs an answer. Something needs your approval. Someone expects you to handle a problem they can’t or don’t want...

Do Your Job – Independently and Competently

Jan 17, 2024 | Leadership Development

In my conversations with leaders last week, one common theme was apparent: They want - no, they need - their managers and team members to become more self-sufficient, skilled, and confident in their respective roles. The CEOs, business owners, board directors, and managers I talked with are busy. They’re really busy. They’re juggling multiple priorities from multiple ‘bosses’. So when one of their managers or team members comes to them with a problem that should not require their input or...

Change Your Organization’s Culture in 12 Months

Dec 27, 2023 | Leadership Development

Change your organization’s culture in 12 months. That statement sounds crazy right? It sounds impossible, but it’s not. It simply takes your unrelenting focus and commitment as a leader to model and communicate what you want and need your team to do as well. It won’t be easy to change your organization’s culture in 12 months. It simply takes your unrelenting focus and commitment as a leader to model and communicate what you want and need your team to do as well. As the leader, you have...

Focus On Them Not On Yourself

Nov 21, 2023 | Leadership Development

“So how are things going with your new executive vice president?” I asked Taylor, a senior vice president. “Well, considering 10 minutes into our first meeting with her - which mind you, was virtual - she said, ‘I don’t like looking at myself’ and turned her camera off, I’d say I’m not feeling very comfortable.” replied Taylor. “Wait. What?! Your new EVP turned OFF her camera 10 minutes into your first meeting with her because she doesn’t like looking at herself?” I asked incredulously. “Yep....

See It Before It Happens

Oct 26, 2023 | Leadership Development

Wouldn’t it be great if the next time something unexpected happened, your team spent less time reacting and more time taking action? It may sound impossible, but it’s not. I’ve had several conversations with clients recently about how to develop quicker and more effective responses to the unexpected. We’ve all come to accept that changes are and will continue to occur at faster and faster rates, so what can we do? As leaders, how can we help our teams cope? We help them get better at seeing...