Nothing is more frustrating than spending all of your time working outside your zone of genius. Maybe you’re someone who just wants to dig in and get your hands dirty. Or, are you the one who loves to plan how the full landscape is going to come together? Either way putting your efforts into the […]
Are You Really Adding Value? A Critical Look at Your Impact on the Team Read More »
Your team seems to have hit a wall. Your boss is completely unfocused, throwing out unrelated asks and hitting you from the side with new projects. Meanwhile, you are hanging on by a thread as the go between lifting the team up and trying to anchor your boss. Sound familiar? These three positions are at
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Recently I started a class on influence and motivation for local business leaders this way. ‘If you came here to learn how to motivate your team, I’m sorry to say, you won’t. You can’t motivate people.’ I got some funny looks and confused chuckles. After all, we had 4 more hours to work together and
You Can’t Motivate People, but You Can Do This Read More »
I had lunch with an aspiring people leader recently and it hurt because I knew I’d have to burst her perfect little bubble. It made me smile at first. Here she was, starry eyed and full of excitement. She shared all of the changes she was going to make for the team she was interviewing
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We were all sitting around the table when Karen said, ‘This isn’t working. We never should have done it that way in the first place. Tell the team to pivot. They really should have built a process that all of the leaders had a stake in in the first place.’ The rest of us just
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When I start working with a client I’ll often ask them about great examples of leaders in their lives. It warms my heart each and every time as their faces light up thinking of the teacher, coach, manager, or mentor who changed everything for them. They describe them and it usually goes something like this.
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This might be an unpopular idea, but we need to stop teaching leaders to manage employees. Whole organizations are set up to have all of their leaders, at every level, manage work that is being done. They focus on KPIs and metrics. Then they teach everyone who supervises a team that achieving results comes from
You’ll never Manage your way to Achieving Results Read More »
What’s one small improvement you can make in your life? That sounds pretty big right? Well, I promise you it’s not. Making a bigger impact relies on cultivating more influence with others. You can make a bigger impact in your community by influencing people to vote in referendums providing funding to schools. This gives life
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Over the past 20 plus years I have led people in a variety of capacities. Each different group of people, from 5 to 50, and in every different industry, had it’s nuances but the foundation for new leaders was there. I had always had clear guidance from the leader above me. There were clear goals
Do You Have a Firm Foundation for New Leaders? Read More »
If you, like me, get to the point that you’re crying in the parking lot screaming I don’t work for you in your head, something’s gone off course. If you’re there now, there is hope. Never been there? Read on to be sure you avoid it. To move forward intentionally you have to remember where
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