I was speaking with a senior executive friend recently about the challenges of attracting, motivating and retaining talent in her company. She described at great length the generous benefits and perks offered by her organization to future and current employees and [...]
A common and pervasive challenge with leaders I encounter each week is their frustration with the lack of consistent accountability from their teams. We acknowledge it is a problem, but we typically struggle to address it in practical and meaningful ways. Maybe there is a [...]
As I typically do at the end of every year, I spent some time early this morning thinking about 2022, lessons I learned and considering what I plan to focus on in 2023. I reflected on a broad range of experiences, [...]
I was reminiscing this morning, the day after Father’s Day, about the many gifts and life lessons my 83-year-old father Steve has shared with me over the years. He is quiet and humble in the way he carries himself, preferring to [...]
Picture in your mind a likely familiar crime scene: the calendar. Every hour of every day during a typical business week, others (with likely good intentions) are trying to steal our time. “Time thieves” often hide right under our nose, comfortably situated between us [...]
If you lead a team, my guess is that one of your biggest challenges today is finding ways to keep your team motivated. Below is a list of easy-to-apply surefire ways to step up your motivation game today. Set Short-Term [...]
Last year I was getting peppered with inquiries from readers and listeners on this particular topic: “My boss has ADD. How can I better manage and support her or him?” After doing a bit of crowd sourcing and gathering some [...]
Over the last five years, the concept of promoting “psychological safety” in teams has become more and more commonplace. And for good reason. Psychological safety has been seen to directly correlate to high-performing teams. In Googles’ groundbreaking study of their [...]
