Team Leadership

Leadership: Sowing The Seeds of Success

True leadership isn't about wielding power but nurturing potential. By prioritizing the well-being and growth of their teams, leaders create a supportive environment where employees thrive, leading to increased morale, creativity, and exceptional customer service. Ultimately, investing in employees is an investment in the long-term success of the organization.

Accountability, Power & Change

Powerless people often rely on excuses to explain their lack of achievement, blaming external forces for their unhappiness and failures. The cure lies in taking full accountability for their own lives; this enables them to hope, set goals and pursue real change.

New Lens Required

The challenge new leaders often face with a newly acquired team is this - they move too quickly into action to make changes and overlook spending time enrolling their new team in THEM as a leader.

How To Promote the Right Employee or Risk Demotivating the Team

Leaders be cautious promoting an individual before they have proven they are ready for the new position. Learn what your team wants, what you (really want) and what you want to do to avoid demoralizing your team and attacking team performance.

Team Building Fail

Team Building Fail - Climbing Trees is fun in the moment but does little to unite your team toward performance. Take time to dive into the problems, expose the hidden story around why we don't trust or work well together. Then, and only then can you truly start to build together.

Why Manager Rants in the Office are Never Productive

We have all sat in meetings with a manager who blows up, repeatedly, and stands on their proverbial soapbox to make their point. We have all also turned off our listening and disengaged from that same behavior pattern. Yet still, this management style is one of the most prominent and least productive. Learn the strategy to work around it if you can't change it.

Are Your People Equipped to Make Decisions... Quickly?

During a recent trip out of town, I learned something about equipping our teammates to make decisions and to make them quickly. One evening, while away from our hotel room, we returned rather late to a room that was flooding. Clearly, the person in the room above us had left the bathtub to overflow, and a lot of water had made it's way down the walls and out of the light fixture in the ceiling. The sound was alarming to walk into, but the appearance of that much water was even more surprising.

1 Easy to Follow Step When Giving Your Team Feedback

If I had a nickel for every conversation I have had about removing a label that a manager or leader gave a team member, I'd be a wealthy, wealthy woman.

Are You Trying to Fix Your Team or Promote Them?

Have you considered, for any length of time, your motives with your team? What is it that you need and want from them? How are they measuring up to your expectations? And, if they aren't measuring up, what are you prepared to do about it?

3 Roadblocks that May be in Your Way to Achieving More

Recently, I had the great pleasure of attending a 4 day intensive retreat with my coach. Yes, even I have a coaching team I work with and that is because I believe so strongly in walking my talk. During this retreat, a powerful question came up for me and, of course, I had to share it with you.

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