Why Grow And Develop Yourself?

Creating Culture Is A Leader’s Responsibility Great leaders strive to create a culture that allows everyone to play at the top of their game.  When team members show up everyday, giving their very best, everyone succeeds.  Developing a high-performance, high-trust environment is really a leader’s main job.  Without it, people will give you their hands […]

When Is Strategy Useless?

Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast  I spend a considerable amount of my time not just advising organizations on strategy but ensuring the execution of those plans.  I can spend days with leaders creating one-page strategic plans but if that team does not have the capacity to execute, it becomes a useless exercise.  You and your […]

3 Ideas For Every Team Leader

This morning I pulled out Keith Ferrazzi’s book, “Never Eat Alone”.  I have a handful of books that I pull out about once a year.  Repetition is the mother of learning and I am constantly re-visiting principles and concepts in order to integrate them into my life.  It’s not necessarily what you know, but what […]

How To Accomplish More With Your Team

People Do What’s Inspected Not What’s Expected You should not only just expect greatness from those around you, but also develop a process for inspecting that achievement.  Organizations and people that don’t have an inspection system don’t have high levels of execution.  Inspection is the power of accountability.  I know that I tend to do […]

How To Produce Great Team Members

What Kind Of Fruit Does Your Life Produce? My favorite leader, Jesus of Nazareth, spoke a lot about this subject.  He said we would know a tree by the fruit that it produced.  I can tell a lot about a person by what his life produces.  I know that if I get around an apple […]

The Best Way To Reward Your Team

You Get What You Reward What is your reward system for your organization or yourself?  You always get the behavior you reward for.  You don’t get the behavior you beg or plead for; you simply get the behavior you’re rewarding for.  Just like with children, when they do good, you want to reward them.  I’m […]

How To Create Responsibility In Your Team

Focus on your Team Unfortunately I know a lot of people that are so focused on their needs that they rarely take into account the needs of others.  When you’ve got a team of people helping you, you must take some responsibility for them.  They also have a family, kids and dreams.  Sometimes we get […]

Do You Know The Greatest Coaching Characteristic?

Have you ever been around someone who looked and talked exactly how you thought they should, but you felt something just wasn’t right? They seem to carry an image of one thing, but in your heart you think, “There’s just something not right here!” This is because people always feel you before they hear you. […]

Coaching Questions That Produce Results

Don’t Manage People, Lead People People do not want to be managed but led.  You can manage things, but you can’t manage people.  You manage things you can control and people are not in this category.  I mention in my events I have trouble controlling my dog so how could I ever control you?  Though […]

What Environment Do You Thrive In?

What Environment Do You Thrive In? I love working with entrepreneurial organizations!  There are opportunities within smaller companies that aren’t available in larger organizations.  In smaller environments there is an opportunity to make a real and lasting difference.  You can quickly see, touch and feel the results of your efforts.  You can garner far more […]

Success Is Not Accident

Success Is Not An Accident This week I pulled out Tommy Newberry’s book Success is Not an Accident.  I have about 10 books that I keep handy in my bookshelf that are go to resources for me.  This is one of those books.  Reviewing information is key to integrating it into your life.  Life change […]

Zig Ziglar

It’s not what happens to you that determines how far you will go in life; it is how you handle what happens to you.