The Magic of “XXX”: The People Leaders’ Secret Sauce

While the idea of “XXX” might have started as a placeholder, the impact is nothing short of real. As a people leader, you hold the key to shaping your organization’s culture and inspiring your team to reach new heights.

Transform Your Leadership

Let's explore how servant leadership can be practical in the modern workforce with specific and actionable steps to help us become better servant leaders.

Leadership

Six Effective Leadership Strategies For Teams

There are many different styles of leadership out there. But often, the most effective leaders are the ones who can adapt their style to fit the situation and the team they're working with.

Leadership

What Leadership Really Means

There's a lot of talk about leadership these days. But what does it really mean to be a leader? Is it about having a title or position? Is it about being the loudest voice in the room? Or is there something more to it than that?

Leadership

6 Qualities that Make a Great Leader

Great leaders are the perfect blend of inspiring coach, clear-minded strategist and self-aware communicator.

3 Steps to a Better Plan (and Presentation) in 2023

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. - Henry Ford This time of year, many ask the question, "What is your resolution for the new year?" The innocent question is easy to answer through the lens of hope (who

Write your own story

Today, I read a post that tech companies laid off over 50,000 US jobs in November. An impactful number, indeed. It was also an incredible understatement.   In this post Let's look at the impact more in-depth: * Considering the average wage in the tech sector at $75,000 per year

Management

Effort vs. Outcomes

Although business relies on the connection between effort and outcome, complexity impacts that relationship.

Leadership

Lazy Workforce or Lazy Leadership?

We have all read about what is wrong in the workplace today.  You will find that our problems aren't new if you read enough.   In most narratives, the "new generation" is always lazy and lost if you ask the 40+ crowd.  The "older generation" got us into this mess.   The

Leadership

The Life-Changing Power of Kindness

Kindness is not difficult to understand. We know it when we see it. It arrests our attention and forces us to observe and feel it. We also know we should be kind. In our personal and professional lives, we expect kindness. So, why is it so rare? In this post

Leadership

Reframing: A Powerful Tool for Leaders

We all have the same battle in our heads between reason and emotion, the risk-taker and the protector. Although seemingly automatic, it is not uncontrollable, and with practice, we can identify and reframe those thoughts into reproductive ones.

Leadership

Prove You Are Trustworthy Every Day

Disciplined, systematic trust building is a skill all leaders must master.

Do You Love Learning Or Just the Idea of Learning?

Have you ever been in that ice-breaker or the first connection with a friend or colleague, and they ask, "What do you do in your free time?" My honest answer is that I spend time studying to be a more effective teacher.  That tends to turn the conversation in a

Motivation Featured

The Lie About Motivation

You can’t enjoy the campfire without first creating a spark. Action creates motivation, not the other way around.

Leadership

Leading an Intergenerational Workforce in 2022

Intergenerational workforces are not a problem, they are an opportunity.

Bullet Point Book Review: 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson

Are you sure enough to write down your 12 rules? Peterson's certainty is polarizing and thought-provoking.

Management

3 Happiness Killers and What To Do About Them

If you aren't addressing these three causes of unhappiness at work, you are probably part of the problem.

Apps

5 Apps that Give You Time Back

Sometimes productivity apps can take so much time to manage; they take more time away from us. These give time back.

Development Featured

How Leaders Destroy Careers

There is work to do before development is effective. Skipping Steps is often catastrophic for everyone involved.

Development

3 Ways To Grow Your Team Without Weaponizing Promotions

We should avoid telling the people we lead that they will get promoted if they just work harder. The path is likely much more complicated and individualized than that.