Limit Your Focus and Stop the Confusion

Jul 25, 2023 | Leadership Development

A client recently shared, “My team never seems to know what to do or when to take initiative. They wait for me to tell them what to do and I’m tired of it. I can’t continue to do everyone’s job!” Does this sound familiar? You’re an experienced leader. You’ve onboarded, trained, developed, and worked with dozens of team members before but times are different. There’s way more work to do than ever before and fewer experienced people to do it, so it falls to you or it doesn’t get done. Right?...

Is Your Business Ready for an Open House?

Aug 17, 2021 | Sales, Marketing & Customer Service

For most individuals who have shopped for a home, the experience of touring various homes is enlightening. There are invariably homes that we view that are over our home purchase budget. There are homes that are under our budget. And, there are homes that fall within our budgeted range. Typically those well above our budgeted range have more space, higher quality and more amenities than we’ve asked for or had even considered! Yet, we immediately start to dream of how amazing our lives would be...

Do You Believe Your Managers Can Manage?

Sep 24, 2019 | Leadership Development

Do you believe your managers can really manage? Do you believe your managers have the skills to make their own department or team decisions? Do you believe your managers can outline their own department or team projects and budgets? Do you believe your managers can resolve their own team problems and make sound decisions concerning their teams and talent? If you really believed your managers could manage, you wouldn’t be involved in so many of their management-level decisions and actions....

What Is Your Leadership Doing to the Organization’s Culture?

May 21, 2019 | Leadership Development

How much of an impact is your leadership having on your organization’s culture? If you don’t already know, it’s time to stop and assess its impact. If you do already know, and the impact you’re having isn’t positive, what are you doing to correct it? If you already know the impact your leadership is having on your organization’s culture is not positive, what are you doing to correct it? Now don’t roll your eyes and think, “Oh here we go again. Here’s another consultant telling me we need to...

Would You Want to Work for “You”?

May 23, 2017 | Leadership Development, WBS

If you had the opportunity to work for yourself, would you? This question has been popping up in conversations with several clients lately. It’s come up during a board strategy session. It’s been discussed during coaching calls. And, it’s come up while discussing the challenges of working in a multi-generational workplace. The reason I ask the question is simple: Focus on yourself before you criticize your team. Focus on yourself before you criticize your team! It’s so easy to point out the...