Blog Posts To Lead And Enlighten
14 Habits for Becoming More Creative
Rarely is the path to anything great a straight line devoid of any obstacles or hiccups. At some point along the journey, a curve ball gets thrown at you, and the answer is not obvious about which direction to go. Conventional wisdom doesn’t provide an answer. That is...
A Step-by-Step Hiring Process You Can Plug and Play
Most leaders would say, if asked, that their people are their company’s best asset. And if that is true, then it starts with hiring the best people who will be representing you and the company every day to the community. Your team is the company. That makes personnel...
What to Put in Your Own Leadership Growth Plan
Your business and your team can only grow as high as you have grown yourself. Sure, you can be a poser for a while, but ultimately, you can’t lead someone past where you have gone. Lee Iacocca said, “The speed of the leader, the speed of the team.” So, the fact is:...
How to be a Flex-Leader
“Blessed are the flexible, for they will never be bent out of shape.” I saw this on a bumper sticker once and thought how true that is for leaders—and, what I want out of my employees. Change is the “currency” for leadership. This skill entails: Leading change by...
How to Take Your Leadership from Good Enough to Excellent
“Your job is to leave the organization better than you found it. You are its steward,” states John Addison, and the way to assure that happens is to always be striving for excellence in every area of both your own leadership and your business processes. There must be...
Why You Must Be a Good Decision-Maker in Leadership
Ready, aim, fire. Leaders need all three of those actions in their portfolio. A lot of Ready is knowing and preparing yourself for action, and a lot of Aiming is in planning and visioning. This blog is about Firing—not people, but firing on actions. Making the call to...
How to Gauge Your Effectiveness as a Leader
First figure out the 2 big O's: Your Objectives--what you want to accomplish The Outcomes--what you want to see happen in the lives of your constituents. Then to determine your leadership effectiveness, here are some measuring sticks: You have a personal growth plan....
Key Proficiencies to Master in Employee Communication
I like the title of a John Maxwell book: Everyone Communicates, Few Connect. While communication, at its basest form, is simply the exchange of information, leaders need to be superior at connecting to people in their communication in order to get things done. If not,...
A Good Set of Ground Rules for Your Meetings and Retreats
When I facilitate retreats for organizations and teams, I usually start out by having the group come up with their own ground rules by which to operate with each other throughout the time together. I remind them that effective, mutually-agreed-upon ground rules often...