To be successful, leaders must take a personal leadership check-up. This isn’t something that is boring or time consuming. A leadership check up involves taking a few minutes to reflect and understand your leadership skills, your opportunities, where you’re going, and...
Why do you do your job? For leadership opportunities? Something makes you get out of bed every morning and go to work, ready for another day of challenges and accomplishments. Is it the money? Bills that you need to pay? Prestige? Or have you followed a career path...
Last week I heard a group of leaders say, “If our leaders could just engage our employees to work when they are here, we would be unstoppable!” Can you relate to this? Now, let’s think about this situation from the perspective of employees. “If we could just get great...
Think of a time when you just read a great leadership book or attended a fantastic leadership workshop and immediately put into action what you learned. Isn’t it a great feeling to uncover a solution to a problem or situation and then take action? Yes, it is fun...
The challenge for many leaders is getting buy-in from team members on decisions or change initiatives that may be unpopular. As an example, let’s say that a company’s owners have decided to change their employees’ health insurance carrier. This could be a real hassle...
