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3 Ways to Generate Dialogue in Meetings

3 Ways to Generate Dialogue in Meetings

I often hear leaders say “I want my people to contribute more in our team meetings.” What most leaders don’t realize is…
8 Questions

8 Questions

Is your team functioning at its highest level of potential? Here are 8 questions to help you decide: Do your meetings go…
Coming Soon – Everything DiSC Work of Leaders™ Profile

Coming Soon – Everything DiSC Work of Leaders™ Profile

Everything DiSC Work of Leaders(TM) Profile Using the framework of Vision, Alignment, and Execution, Work of Leaders encourages leaders to understand their…
Three Challenges New Teams Face

Three Challenges New Teams Face

The first challenge that new teams often face is a lack of alignment. Usually happens when goals aren’t clear and common, and when…
Collaboration Trumps Time Management: Part 2

Collaboration Trumps Time Management: Part 2

In Part 1 of this post I mentioned that collaboration trumps time management…every time. In others words, if you want to do…
5 Ways for Every Leader to be a Coach

5 Ways for Every Leader to be a Coach

The best leaders spend up to 20% of their time coaching their direct reports. It’s a responsibility that leaders all too often…
Collaboration Trumps Time Management

Collaboration Trumps Time Management

Collaboration trumps time management…every time. We often seek to do things faster and better and as a result look for “time management”…
Communicate What You Need

Communicate What You Need

When people don’t communicate what they need, it results in a lose-lose for themselves and others around them. I recently experienced this…
3 Ways to Derail Team Formation: Part 3

3 Ways to Derail Team Formation: Part 3

Here is the third excerpt from our recent article on 3 Ways to Derail Team Formation. In Part 1 of this post I talked about…
An Interesting Duality

An Interesting Duality

One of the challenges that senior leadership teams face is what I call an “interesting duality.” On on hand, a senior leader…