We talk a lot about how important it is to identify our personal and corporate values. We begin every strategic planning process by identifying those beliefs we all share — what is good and necessary to create a healthy future for our organization or business. The values list often includes honesty, open communications, trust, competence, […]
We are all familiar with Patrick Lencioni’s Five Dysfunctions of a Team. Overcoming Lencioni’s first two dysfunctions—the absence of trust and the fear of conflict—is essential in the development of a high-performance team. Well, Stephen M. R. Covey, in his book The Speed of Trust, identifies five tools to help build trust and resolve conflict. They […]
I was reading through Gary Chapman and Paul White’s book, The Five Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace and had one of those “aha moments.” It’s the feeling I had when I first learned that being an introvert was a good thing and not some sort of mental illness (don’t believe me, read The Introvert […]
On Friday, June 15, 2012 Nik Wallenda crossed over Niagara Falls, suspended 200 feet in the air, on a wire, 20 stories high, over raging waters, through blinding thick mist and gusting winds, in the dark of night. And you thought leadership was the ultimate balancing act. Truth is, leadership is a balancing act that […]
When I was a personnel development executive, I seldom used outside consultants and trainers. Why? Because they played too many games and no one learned a thing. They called it experiential learning, but more often than not it was so artificial that I was hard pressed to find any application or meaning in the real […]
You have three choices when it comes to hiring people. Hire anyone who applies. Hire potential winners. Hire proven winners. Hiring anyone who applies takes very little time, not a lot of work, and it will likely destroy your organization. Hiring potential winners takes work and usually takes a lot of time and who knows, […]
I have seen too many teams get stuck in the forming and storming stages of team development and never become the high performing teams they all wanted to be. The mix of members never made sense to the team, and/or the players kept changing. About the time one member arrives, another leaves. There was no […]