Employee Benefits

Why Are So Many Americans Skipping Medical Care, Even When They Have Insurance?

Because the cost has become impossible to manage not just for the uninsured, but for working Americans with coverage, steady incomes, and families to protect. A ...

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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

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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Business Culture

Why Stuff Isn’t Getting Done: Or What Does Your Team Need to Know?

If you are the leader, it is incumbent on you to get your message across. You need to own it if it falls on deaf ears. This isn’t very hard. It requires you to slow down just a bit and to think through:

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Business Culture

You Really Just Have to Give a Sh#$

If you want employees to be engaged, to quit complaining, if you want them to stop unionizing efforts… You just need to give a SH%#.

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Business Culture

Burnout is not always a people problem… Sometimes it’s the organization.

  Google “burnout” and you will find 85.6 million opinions on it. Most of which will say something like: Take a break Try Yoga Drink less ...

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Business Culture

Can You Handle the Truth About Your Business

Almost every leader I speak with says they would like more clarity and candor from their teams. Yet, people resist. Why? Some common concerns are: Candor ...

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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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Management

Achieve Remarkable Success With Good Delegation

Mastering the art of delegation can be the stepping stone to greater and greater advancement in a career. Yet delegation is not as easy as saying, “do this”. Successful delegation requires trust, time, and patience.

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Management

A Powerful Way to Improve Your Teams with Continuous Development

As leaders, we want our teams to be tip-top with skill sets and mindsets. That requires an investment, at least of time. In some cases, money. ...

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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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Business Culture

Are You Resisting the Most powerful Conversation in Leadership

Often when people think of accountability and being held accountable they think, “I’m being blamed.” This is NOT accountability, it is blame. And blame doesn’t work.  ...

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Communication

From Paralyzed to Motivated with Communication

The alternative is to leverage the languages and behaviors of trust to inspire and cultivate teams.

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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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Business Culture

Something Came Up, or How Not to be Accountable

How often has this occurred in your organization? Your meeting starts and a member of your team (Tom) that really should be in the meting rolls ...

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Business Culture / Communication

The Role of Communication and Culture

In my corporate career I was with a firm that acquired 22 brands and tried to consolidate them into one. Think about that 22 distinct companies, ...

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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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Business Culture

Culture is more than Chemistry

The trend in the talent development community (HR) is to look for individuals with a cultural fit. What does that mean? Does it mean: We all ...

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Business Culture / Leadership

Toastmasters as a Leadership Model

I was driving home from Toastmasters the other night and talking with my wife when she said what is it that keeps you going back after ...

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Business Culture

Whole Foods Gets It

When I encounter a business that demonstrates delivery of their goods or services in an elegant manner I like to acknowledge that they “get” it. Recently, ...

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Business Culture

Integrity …A little bit goes a long way”. REALLY

I was at a conference recently and the speaker said, “A little integrity goes a long way.” Really? What is a little integrity? How much is enough?

Meanwhile back at the conference everyone was buzzing and nodding their heads. This indicated that they too felt that “a little integrity goes a long way”.

Websters Dictonary defines integrity as follows

    INTEGRITY
1: firm adherence to a code of especially moral or artistic values : incorruptibility
2: an unimpaired condition ...

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