Leadership

Why Your Best People Are Quietly Disengaging (And the 3 Conversations That Fix It)

A recent Inc. Magazine article by Bruce Crumley highlights groundbreaking NBER research revealing a surprising truth: minor, unintended slights can significantly impact employee performance, increasing absenteeism ...

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Business Culture / Leadership / Sales / Uncategorized

Clarity: The Secret to Unlocking Employee Potential

As a small business owner, are you frustrated with your employees’ performance? Before pointing fingers, it’s crucial to examine the role you play in your team’s ...

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Leadership

Is Your Work – “Love Made Visible”?

As someone who’s spent decades helping business owners grow, I’ve noticed something; the best among us aren’t driven by a paycheck. They’re building something that matters. ...

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Leadership

A Simple Framework for Building Accountable, Engaged Teams

I keep hearing small business owners telling me they cannot find good talent who want to work. I think they are not attracting talent that wants ...

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Leadership / Management

Why Most Founders Never Escape the Job They have Created

In 2023, there were 5.5 million new small businesses launched, according to the US Chamber of Commerce. Most of them will fail because the owner cannot ...

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Leadership

Why Your Workers Don’t Care

It is an age old dilemma, “my employees don’t  care like I do”.  You have two choices you can stop growing or figure it out.  There ...

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Leadership

Leverage Your Voice for More Success

  Do you want to sell more? Do you want to land the job? Do you want your team to perform better? Then pay attention to ...

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Leadership

Accountability…What is it Good For?

When we are accountable, there are a host of benefits: Trust - people trust people that are accountable to their word. Predictability – when we can count on others to be accountable, we can start to predict outcomes. Conflict Reduction- many organizational conflicts come from missed expectations or missed promises. Improved Performance – people can count on others to do their job, so they complete their part and more gets done.

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Leadership

Four Things that Hold Emerging Leaders Back

The very thing that gets high performers promoted into leadership can be the limiter in their behavior as a leader. The drive to achieve, to be a pace setter, is what gets producers noticed and considered for promotion. But a constant drive for achievement without the human connection can damage team performance.

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Communication / Leadership

What Good is an Idea If You Can’t Communicate It?

When we say what we want to say or send the email we want to send without considering its impact on the other party, we can be damaging productivity and/or the performance of the team.

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Leadership

Remarkable and Powerful Leadership lessons From Queen Victoria

What Barry and Queen Victoria recognized was the power of presence. Not necessarily having the answer but being in the trenches working with their teams to find the answers.

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Leadership

Is Your Team Not Delivering? You Might Be the Problem

Leaders develop with experience. Not just the experience of success but also through the pain and disappointment of failure.

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Leadership

Get the Results you Want Through Influence and Impact

Clients often ask, “How can I wield more influence?” Or, “How can I create a bigger impact?” Personal Presence is hard to define and yet when ...

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Leadership

Communication – Is It a Soft Skill or a Competitive Advantage

“The coolest thing about an iPod is you can take your entire music collection with you in your pocket.” This caused the stock to rise almost 7%. This was because Jobs was able to create a meaningful picture in the markets eyes.

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Leadership

You Want to Master the Leadership Conversations

Leadership consists of many things. Google will give you 1.7 billion points of view. Where I sit on this, is that the primary tool of a ...

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Leadership

Think your organization is on board with you? Think again.

Your ability as a leader to stand in front of the room and articulate with confidence, and transparency you message can determine buy in from the organization.

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Leadership

Superior Results With the Alignment Conversation

It takes more than a strategy session to create alignment, it is an ongoing conversation called The Alignment Conversation. Who cares about alignment? You should! 65% ...

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Leadership

Why Not Just Call It Presence?

Clients often ask me about developing Executive Presence, Leadership Presence, or Command Presence. Why not just call it presence? What is it? How do we develop ...

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Leadership

Change Fatigue:

Change is a challenge in many organizations. One phrase I often hear from clients is, “we are experiencing change fatigue.” I get it… and yet there ...

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Leadership

Meetings What are They Good For?

As corporate America realized that with technology they could have people work “remote” they found that they could save in terms of hard costs on real ...

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Leadership

Communicating for the bottom line: the human and financial impact of communications

$12.0 Billion Dollars! That’s the amount of waste documented in the US Hospital System due to poor communications according to research from University of Maryland reported ...

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Leadership

Can Meaning Create Team Engagement?

One of the biggest drivers for employee engagement and performance is that they find meaning in their work.  Yet for some jobs it might be hard ...

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Leadership

Who Wants a Disengaged Employee?

In 2017 Gallup reported that 70% of the US workforce is unengaged! That is a 3 point jump over 2015. How does that happen? I hear ...

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Business Culture / Leadership

Competition versus Cooperation

Working with Tom’s organization (not his real name) was intense. You ate what you killed… period. In addition, if a colleague had an account you wanted, ...

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