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You’re Going to Exit Your Business. The Only Question Is How.

This year, My Sister lost her accountant of 25 years. He died suddenly with no succession plan. She had to scramble. It got me thinking: You ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Leadership

Five Signs You Might Be a Bad Boss

You can’t control your emotions As a leader, your emotional tone sets the tone for your team. If you are frustrated, your team is in all ...

Leadership

Three Reasons Employees Don’t Trust Their Leaders

I recently came across a study that reports that 55% of employees do not trust their leaders! That hurts. A leader who learns that 55% of ...

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. ...

Business Culture

Better Feedback

Common complaints from managers I work with are, “my employees are not engaged, they are not adopting the new system, they are not stretching out of ...

Personal Development

Can Emotion Be Influential?

I was delivering a workshop recently when one of the participants wanted to be heard. He wanted to acknowledge the role that emotion and feelings play ...

Communication / Leadership

Communication – Alignment – Results

I have heard countless managers tell me that they cannot find good people. “They don’t have a good work ethic, they complain, they aren’t engaged ...

Communication

What you say vs. What you do

I was struck by this article by Doug Conant and Stephen MR Covey that described a building surrounded by a fence and razor wire. This had ...

Communication

Communicate With People Not At Them

Talk with people not at them Are you stuck? Are people not engaging or acting in ways you expect? Try connecting with them versus talking at ...

Communication

Your Attitude Cloud

I was reminded recently of the comic strip character, Pig Pen from the strip Peanuts. He was the little kid that walked around with a cloud ...

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 ...

Leadership

Positive Connections and Productivity

I recently read, “Are You Fully Charged”, by Tom Rath. I am struck by the data that shows how important our interactions are to our productivity ...

Leadership

Self-Care and Self-Leadership

I was in a conversation recently with a group of managers and talking about how do we engage our team in a mission that we may ...

Management

Do you want your meetings to be more productive?

One of the most common complaints I hear from my clients is the length of time that is taken up in meetings. According to an article ...