When I was growing up, I was a very shy person. I was afraid to ask questions, communicate what was on my mind, and most of all, didn’t want to create any waves. Today, people would say I don’t have any trouble with any of these methods of communication! Why

American Values have been changing. For almost all of the past 300 or so of my presentations, I’ve opened with the same question. “How many of you are completely comfortable with calling yourself a leader?” The crowds have been young and old, student and professional, representing dozens of different interests

Leading any sort of team in a workplace environment can be challenging and demanding. When you’re leading a team of multinational workers from a variety of backgrounds, the challenges are often exacerbated. Having a multinational team can be a real benefit to you as a boss. You may just find

I once talked to a group of employees about the one leadership skill they felt was absolutely essential to be an effective leader. They said, “Handling the tough stuff – the situations that keep us from doing our job.” This immediate feedback was amazing. I was thinking, okay, the tough

Do you have leadership skills? Are you a know-it-all? I hope so because people that are really good at what they do have a passion for learning and sharing information about what they know. We, know-it-alls, love to tell others what we just discovered and the latest tip or secret

Most professionals dream of becoming independent entrepreneurs or senior managers at some point in their careers. What they usually don’t think about is that genuine leaders possess a wide range of skills that helps them to maintain team motivation and achieve the planned results. That’s why incompetence transforms a lot

My career started with the end of the world. No, really. The mentor who changed the course of my entire professional life happens to be the world’s foremost apocalypse debunker—he was even featured in an issue of Popular Science for it. I suppose you could say that he destroyed my

Years ago, my son, a new age-worthy boy scout, asked me about a topic he’s heard before and was mentioned more often in his new scout unit. He asked: What is leadership? I often share variations of the answer I gave him years ago, and to be honest, I don’t

In a previous article, I introduced an upcoming article series titled the Top 10 Barriers to Leadership. This first installment is about Listening Strategies. By minimizing and/or eliminating the most common barriers to leadership, we can easily accelerate the growth of our personal and professional leadership skills and leadership qualities. With this

Occasionally, there is a new leadership skills concept introduced that almost seems too simple and powerful to be true. Visioning is one of those leadership skills concepts. Except it does work! Visioning is a system-thinking leadership approach that enables and empowers leaders to make better decisions, solve problems and improve