How To Ensure Change Translates Into Culture
Leading change is one of the most challenging leadership assignments period. The pain of the present must be greater than the fear of the future for most people to even be open to change. The hard part though comes after all the communication of the new vision and now its time to embed the new […]
Make Civility The Norm On Your Team
Almost everyone that works through teams believes there needs to be a healthy dose of conflict from time to time that will produce the greatest results. However, when team members are passive aggressive or unload and say something very critical towards another person, all trust can be lost. So the team leader’s responsibility is to […]
5 Simple Tips For Building Trust As A Leader
Probably the best leadership book I read in 2017 was The Speed Of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey. In the first chapter he quotes Jack Welch,”If you’re not fast, you’re dead.” When everyone faces the reality that demand almost always exceeds capacity, we can’t afford to waste any productivity because there is a low trust […]
GE The Need For A Single Overarching Strategy
The best advice I have received in a long time was from a client who insisted that I become competent with Michael Porter’s work on strategy. It is clearly still a work in progress but I now realize that without a sustainable competitive advantage you will eventually fail. Growth for growth’s sake improves short term […]
Why Leaders Need To Embrace Employee Motivation
One of the major issues I face with every client I help with leadership development is how to align managers who many times are Boomers with team members who are Millennials. Productivity and job satisfaction are damaged because they do not understand each others core values and therefore trust is lost. This post by Christine […]