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. […]

Episode 008 – The 5 Needs Of A High Trust High Performance Team – Podcast

The culture you create determines the results you enjoy. You can have the seeds of a great organization but a bad culture and fail. If you grow a great culture, you’ll grow a great business. 5 Needs Of A High Trust, High Performance Team People act out of an unmet need. People do not do […]

Episode 006 – The Difference Between Leadership and Management – Podcast

Myths Of Leadership 1.  If I’m not at the top, I can’t lead. Build relationships with others to gain influence naturally. Leadership is about valuing people, caring about them and getting permission to lead them. People follow you, because they want to. Every level of a company depends on leadership from someone. 2. When I […]

Why Most Leadership Training Fails

Training is a Process Turning a group of employees into a high performance team doesn’t happen overnight.  It takes time, commitment, patience and a belief that the effort is worth it.  When I begin to work with an organization, I know it takes time to change that culture.  It’s the reason I have a process-drive […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]