Memorial Day
Memorial Day is the one day when we reflect as a nation on the sacrifices of the men and women who died while serving our country.
Using Conflict to Increase Innovation
The more you motivate your team to challenge ideas, the greater the likelihood that you will acquire innovative and creative ideas from your team.
Managing Workplace Conflicts: Shifts in Behavior
You, your team, and your organization are not dysfunctional because you have conflict – conflict is a part of being human.
Thriving After A Layoff
Perhaps this experience will help to point you in the direction of where you’re supposed to go next. You lost this job and that sucks. Now you have the opportunity to get more of what you want out of your next job!
Preparing for a Layoff
Facing the loss of a role that provides a great deal of your identity as well as the means for living, can be very challenging.
More Powerful Questions for Powerful Leadership
We’ve witnessed the power that great questions have to create opportunities for innovation, problem solving, and higher levels of thinking.
Powerful Questions for Powerful Leadership
Today, we’re sharing some of the questions that we’ve found invite higher levels of input and expand critical thinking.
Leading When Bad Things Happen
Leadership, as we define it, is the willingness to influence your world and the willingness to be influenced by your world.
Your Dream Employee – Start with Purpose
Last week we finished up the Your Dream Job series and shared a video synopsis of Daniel H. Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. As you’ll recall, the book summarized the key motivators for most adults as Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. In our consulting, we work with leaders to consider these three motivators but in reverse order: Purpose, Mastery, and Autonomy. As we’ve worked with leaders on how to lead using this helpful perspective, we’ve started to coach them on using…