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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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 / 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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Personal Development

Stop Chasing Success: How to BE the Leader Your Business Needs

Almost everyone gets into business to experience success. And to do that, they are thinking of something along the lines of. “If I DO this, I ...

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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

Did You Give Them Permission to Do That Terrible Thing?

This is not always easy, but you can create a culture of candor and accountability. You do it through practice and habit. When you understand the psychology, structure, and cadence of communication, you can leverage this to drive performance.

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Communication

Want Motivated Employees? Here are Five Ideas.

There are things you can do right now that will motivate, inspire, and engage your team. Here are five ideas.

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Management

Sounds Like a Recipe for Overwhelm. Find Out How to Regain Control of Your Life

“Its quicker and better if I do it myself.” Sounds like a recipe for overwhelm to me.

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Business Culture

Do They Care About Their Customers…? You tell me.

If Your store opens at 8:00 AM are you ready for business or are you getting set up for business at 8:30? And how much business did you miss because you could not deliver at 8:00 AM?

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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

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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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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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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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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Communication

Is Popeye a Good Leadership Role Model?

Today we can identify the science behind what we used to call vibes. We now know why Steve gives off a good vibe and Julie has ...

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Communication

Does She Have Stage Fright? – Yes, And It Doesn’t Matter

As a communication and leadership coach, I often work with people of have to give a presentation in front of others and they are afraid. They ...

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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

Leadership and Followership

Many of people I work with are always talking about leadership and how everyone needs to be a good leader, an engaged leader, a self-leader. OK. ...

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