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Managing Performance: Appreciate!

If you do nothing else as a manager, learn to appreciate your people. It’s simple and effective. If you want to excel at managing performance,

July 27, 2015 No Comments

Mid Career Coaching:
Finding What Truly Matters

Do you know what truly matters most to you? I’ve been posting about mid career crisis, and this is really an opportunity for you to

July 6, 2015 No Comments

Leadership Purpose: To Inspire,
Start with “Why?”

In order to lead others successfully, you need to be clear about your business and leadership purpose, you need to start with “why?” When a

March 2, 2015 No Comments

Do You Put Values in Action at Work?

All organizations have a mission statement and a set of values or guiding principles. When people put values in action, they feel energy, enthusiasm, and

February 26, 2015 No Comments

Leadership Authenticity: 3 Problems in Becoming More Authentic

While virtually every leader has a sense of what “authenticity” means, few know how to develop it as a leadership skill. To complicate matters, leadership

February 2, 2015 No Comments

Effective Management Conversations:
High Structure and High Substance

I’ve been writing about how managers can avoid under managing by more effective management conversations: highly structured, high substance conversations. How can we describe how

January 26, 2015 No Comments

How to Motivate People without Over-Managing

In my opinion, many business leaders have lost sight of how to motivate people at work. In fact, some companies haven’t updated their incentive practices

November 24, 2014 No Comments

Can You Measure Leadership Trust?

What if you could measure trust? If you could put a number on the degree of trust in a relationship, perhaps you could then see

November 20, 2014 No Comments

4 Components of Trust

These past few blog posts have been dissecting the elements of trust (here, here and here). If you were to boil down trust to its

November 17, 2014 No Comments

5 Leadership Trust Building Skills

I’ve been exploring what builds high leadership trust (here and here). Maister, Green and Galford write about the elements that build trust in their book

November 13, 2014 No Comments