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 004 – How To Create A Harvest Of Trust – Podcast

Create Trust Like A Farmer Creates A Harvest Trust affects the speed of business. You can create an environment of trust. When trust is high, you get projects done with less drama. Every farmer is convinced in sowing and reaping. They believe the harvest is hidden in the seed.. Trust is just like seed. 1. […]

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, […]

3 Hurdles Every CEO Has To Overcome

Every CEO Has The Same Hurdles Leading an organization can be challenging. Business is basically people doing transactions so the issues you face are rooted in people. Good news, many CEO’s have the same challenges. Sometimes just knowing you’re not alone, helps. I spent today with Sean McClain at Clearcut in Louisville , KY. and […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

How You Can Create a High Performance Team

The culture you create determines the results you enjoy Creating a high-trust high-performance culture is not something that just happens.  It takes a strategy.  In this fast-paced 30 minute podcast I go through some of the strategies that I’ve used in creating teams that perform at amazing levels!  Remember, it doesn’t just take a strategy […]

How To Increase your Influence with People

 Influence is Based on Trust Trust is never static.  Everything you do impacts others’ level of trust in you because there is a difference between being trustworthy and being trusted.  How you behave as a leader is always under the microscope, so be very conscious of whether you are building or diminishing trust. Have you […]