Why?

Leaders need to ask the right questions.. instead of asking why, we should be focused on what and how…  

(GPS) Goals, Passion and Struggles

Everyone has their own set of motives. Once you’ve discovered their goals, passions and struggles (GPS)… then you can help give direction in order to achieve the desired outcome and results.  

How To Stay Out Of The Fog Of Drama

“Dennis, as a leader one of the greatest battles I fight every day, is the fight for clarity.”  This is one of the most insightful comments I heard this week.  It’s easy in our organizations to get sidetracked or derailed.  There are a myriad of issues that pop up on a minute by minute basis […]

What’s Needed To Stop The Drama?

Be prepared and stop the drama “This is the most prepared we are have ever been moving into a new year”, Mike shared with me.  It was a different story 5 years ago.  When I first started working with this service based business, there was no planning process.  It was chaotic and stressful.  I could […]

How To Eliminate Drama From Your Team

What’s stopping your team? As a leader one of your main assignments is to facilitate work.  It’s not to do it all yourself.  The best leaders get great results through others by engaging their team in the mission.  Inevitably you’ll face this one challenge – Drama.  It’s the key roadblock that is stopping your team. […]

Why I Can’t Fix Your People

You can’t fix anyone “Dennis, can you come for a day and just fix our people?”  This is the tragic question I get asked frequently.  Truthfully I can’t fix anyone and neither can you.  In fact, I barely can get our dog, Allie, to go to the bathroom outdoors.  If I can’t control my dog, […]

Why Slogans Never Work

Creating Culture is a Process “How does an organization create a high-trust, high-performance culture system-wide not just with the executive team?”  Since I faciltate a lot of executive retreats, it’s a question I get asked frequently.  For starters, it doesn’t transpire with just an executive retreat where we come up with a new catch phrase such […]

The One Thing You Need For Better Decisions

Create An Environment of Trust for Better Decisions The foundation of all high-trust high-performance cultures is trust.  Trust is the life blood of relationships and companies.  The deeper the trust, the better the discussion.  The better the discussion, the better the decisions.  Better decisions create better results. The Best Decisions Possess The Best Wisdom Breakthrough […]

How To Get The Most From Feedback

Feedback – Know Where You Need To Grow A common complaint I hear when I work with a company is, “Dennis, I just don’t get enough feedback.”  After 25 years of working with all types of organizations, I believe the greatest barrier to personal growth is receiving constructive feedback on your own behavior.  Growth demands change and change […]

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 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 […]