4 Signs That Your Focus Is Holding You Back At Work
The lasting negative impact of multi-tasking is that most people are no longer able to focus on any one key thing long enough to complete the work. We are so used to starting and stoping tasks, that deep thinking and creative innovation are extremely difficult, because we cannot concentrate long enough to be effective. This […]
Why You Should Always Lead With Your Values
Leveraging the best productivity practices and empowering teams are great strategies to drive results. However, what we must always avoid is giving higher value to efficiency over effectiveness. This means that the Why of what we are doing will always be more important than the How. This Forbes post drives this truth home: “A few […]
3 Practical Steps To Getting The Right Results
We all know the practical definition of insanity: continue to do the same things but expect different results. For most of us that means that we have to stop doing some existing things to make room for the new and better things. At a minimum, we must change the way we are doing some old […]
How To Stay Calm Under Pressure At Work
We all are dealing with incredible amounts of stress at work with no end in sight. Therefore, we must learn how to turn all of that energy into effective habits that increase our productivity not minimize it. Many times the critical factor is simply our perspective about the stress and not the stress event itself. […]
Good Leaders Do Not Need A Hammer
Today if you have to tell someone you are the leader in reality you probably are not. Positional authority has given way to relational trust in most work cultures. Does that mean that all directive leadership is dead? No, however you must adapt to a situational leadership model to align with what you team needs. […]