One of the best ways to guide and direct the performance of team members is through consistent feedback. The annual review is too late to affect performance on day-to-day basis. People want to know whether they are meeting the standard, how their...
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Stepping Into Negative Emotions As a leader, what do you do when you meet with someone who is in a negative or heightened emotional state, perhaps either very angry or sad to the point of tears. A heightened emotional state in another person...
Read moreKeep the Change!
The best leaders continually seek to grow in order to become even more effective. They seek new skills and they seek to build their character so that tomorrow’s version is better than today’s. As a part of growth comes change. In delving into our...
Read moreStrategic Focus
Strategic focus is essential to business success. It is the ability to identify the one path that the business intends to take to accomplish its objective and to then relentlessly pursue that path while ignoring other paths along the way. Many...
Read moreVolume or Vision
What sort of a boss are you? How do you motivate your team members? For some people, their leadership practice consists of volume. Using a command and control style, they attempt to drive people to perform. Some of the command and control bosses...
Read moreWhat Is Servant Leadership? – Part 2
Servant leadership turns the old perception of leadership upside down. Instead of being served by his or her followers, the servant leader is focused on serving those whom he or she is leading, helping them maximize their potential in life and on...
Read moreWhat Is Servant Leadership? – Part 1
Servant leadership turns the usual perception of leadership upside down. The common conception of leadership is a pyramid where the leader sits at the top and the hierarchy below supports and follows the leader. On the other hand, in servant...
Read moreTeam or Simply Workgroup?
In recent years the use of the word team has become more popular in organizations. Instead of the executive staff we now have the leadership team. Instead of the sales department or the salesforce we have the sales team. When we need to work on a...
Read moreResilience and Business Strategy
Resiliency is often spoken of as an important character trait of an individual. A healthy person is expected to be highly resilient. Resilience is the strength and speed of our response to adversity or change. The Oxford Dictionary defines...
Read moreValue People, Evaluate Performance
It is very easy to intermingle our view of people with our view of their actions, especially when we need to give corrective feedback. When we do so, the natural result is conflict as the other person feels personally attacked and most likely...
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