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 […]

Questions To Ask In An Organizational Climate Survey

Feedback is one of the great Organizational Challenges Giving feedback can be a challenge.  Because of how many people were raised, the truth was taboo.  They lived with sacred cows and white elephants.  Maybe this describes your home life.  The good news is giving and receiving feedback is a learnable skill. Feedback Creates a Basline […]

1 Way To Take Ideas to Action

From Ideas to Action I’ve become a fan of the Chris Brogan 3 Book Diet.  Even though he’s not following through with it, I’m taking some of his advice!  I’m going to work on implementing what I’m reading.  Information is not my problem, but it’s taking action.  Do you have the same issue? Instead of […]

Why I Need Coaching

Why I Need a Coach This past week I was glad to get back in the gym. Since New Years, I’ve been sidelined with a knee injury from a sliding adventure in Iowa over the holidays.  I’ve realized I’m not as young as I once was, because it’s taken me longer than usual to recover. […]

How to Change in Order to Grow

One of the fundamental rules in problem solving is that you rarely come up with a solution until you understand the cause.  Whenever I’m working with people I try to get to the root before I change the fruit.  There is a reason why and discovering it, is half the battle!  After decades of working […]