Morale Problem? Look in the Mirror
Creating the conditions for self-motivation leads to satisfied employees producing satisfied customers.
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Might is No Longer Right
Lack of compassion and understanding can adversely affect a company's turnover. In today's workplace, a management style of pushing people around often pushes the highest performers right out the door.
Read article »Measuring Organizational and Team Energy Levels
Take the courageous approach to leadership by building team commitment and ownership. Our "Energy Index" Assessment is a great place to start.
Read article »Measurement Traps
Measure from the outside in to effectively focus, measure, problem solve and improve your organization.
Read article »Measurement and Feedback are Vital to Improvement
Feedback is central to learning. Faulty feedback is one of the biggest contributors to organization, team, and personal learning disabilities. If we don't know how we are doing, we can't improve.
Read article »Matching Team Types and Focus
Effective team management begins by clarifying what a team's purpose and role is and deciding how it will operate. A team's commitment and performance increases exponentially with the degree of power, control, and ownership they feel they have.
Read article »Mastering Change Through Continuous Growth, Learning, and Improvement
What most of us clearly hate and strongly resist is — being changed. But when change represents learning, growth, and improvement, it generates energy and is often eagerly embraced.
Read article »Many Managers Disempower Themselves
Many managers unwittingly believe that leadership only comes down from the top. They give away their power by believing that they don't have any.
Read article »Manifesto for a Leadership Development Revolution
Strengths-based leadership development is the biggest revolution in the leadership development field in the last 50 years, paving the path for developing leaders with powerful data.
Read article »Managing the Reengineering-Incremental Improvement Paradox
Both process reengineering and incremental improvement are needed. How, when, and where each approach and combinations of both are used, depends on the task to be performed. Like visions and goals, reengineering and incremental improvement is another and/also paradox to be managed.
Read article »Management vs. Leadership
One key distinction between management and leadership is that we manage things and lead people. When dealing with things, we talk about a way of doing. In the people realm, we're talking about a way of being.
Read article »Management Teams Often Handicap Themselves
Strong management teams change and improve their organizations despite obstacles, handicaps and problems. It's called leadership.
Read article »Manage Things, Lead People
To manage is to control, handle, or manipulate. To lead is to guide, influence, or persuade.
Read article »Looking Back to Look Ahead
The journey of personal growth requires finding our own way by implementing a series of interconnected areas of growth and development.
Read article »Life Accumulates in Our Personal Choice Accounts
Now is the time to prepare for our next harvest. We can't wait until harvest time to plant the seeds. We can't strike a bargain to plant seeds once we see whether the harvest is worth the effort. Our choices accumulate in our personal choice accounts. We're accumulating deficits or surpluses with each decision we make.
Read article »Leading from the Inside Out
The deepest and most lasting leadership comes from the inside out. It's authentic. It's real. When you live from the depths of the heart, you walk your talk, heed your conscience, and don't hesitate to take a stand.
Read article »Leadership on Purpose
Pursuing profits without a higher purpose or pursuing a purpose without profit are equally fatal strategies. Profits follow from worthy and useful purposes. Fulfilling the purpose comes first, and then the profits follow.
Read article »Leadership Competency Models: Why Many are Failing and How to Make Them Flourish
Used effectively, leadership competency models become a roadmap to dramatically higher leadership effectiveness. Six reasons they fail, and five keys to flourish.
Read article »Leadership and Learning are Indispensable
Not all learners are leaders. But the research clearly shows that the strongest leaders are continuous learners. They are self-made leaders.
Read article »Leaders Take Responsibility for Their Choices
It's natural to strike out at someone or something that seems to be causing us problems. Instead of tackling the problem, poorly led teams devote their energies to allocating blame and avoiding responsibility.
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