Ten ways to screw up your next meeting:#1. Don’t state the purpose of the meeting.#2. Don’t declare how the meeting aligns with organizational goals.Long-term goals establish direction. Short-term goals enable execution.#3. Don’t get input from key participants before the meeting.Some team members believe they have the right to help steer…...
The Top Ten Toxic Behaviors of Lousy Leaders
Top Ten toxic Behaviors of Lousy Leaders:#1. Neglecting relationships. A short conversation about someone’s family while getting coffee isn’t a waste of time. If you want great results, build strong relationships.#2. Tolerating bad apples. Time makes bad apples rot. They don’t ripen with time. Your team is waiting for you…...
4 Practices Guaranteed to Energize Tired Teams
4 ways to energize tired teams:#1. Establish direction that matters to each team member.Can everyone describe what rowing-with looks like?Point out anyone who is rowing sideways. Do this in private. Explain what rowing-with looks like.Understand each team member’s reason for caring about the team’s direction. Why does this matter to…...
A Premortem: Reverse Positive Thinking for Success
Get into the habit of doing PREmortems, because a POSTmortem by definition happens after the fact, which is too late for the current situation, although it will undoubtedly help similar situations in the future. What might go wrong:A year from now, imagine your project is a colossal failure.…...
Overcoming Obstacles in the Workplace Series: Stress Management for Leaders
“To experience stress is normal, but to work in a constant state of stress is optional.” According to a recent Korn Ferry survey, employee stress levels have increased 20% in three decades. Leaders are no exception to this statistic. When you’re on the grind, working day in and day…...
The Fear of Failure Makes You Small
The paralyzing fear of failure makes you small.Fear of failure prevents you from trying new things. If you aren’t certain of success, you won’t begin. If you can’t do it well, you won’t try.Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
15 Questions that Invent the Future
Progress is the answer to a question.If you feel stuck, you have aspiration without progress. But the right question re-ignites forward movement.Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
How to Fuel Energy and Explore Possibility
The need for a quick solution prevents leaders from asking powerful questions.What if questions are more powerful than statements?Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
How to Use Frustration to Expand Your Leadership
Frustration usually points at people and circumstances. But frustration is also an opportunity to look at yourself, to elevate and expand your leadership.Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
The Shocking Truth about Disrespect and How to Overcome It
Nearly 80% of people who feel disrespected are less committed*. Those who aren’t committed find fault. Those who are committed find a way. It might feel good to ‘put people in their place,’ but the consequences of disrespect aren’t worth the pleasures of feeling superior. Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog…...
Why Lousy Leaders Succeed
The worst result of bad leaders is they deflate the drive to be good. Why try, if lousy leaders succeed?A few weeks back a reader asked why bad leaders succeed. His question has been a dripping faucet ever since.Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
How Servant Leaders Deliver Remarkable Results
Pressure produces compliance, not commitment.The compliant never achieve greatness.Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
How Leaders Build Resilience in Good Times & Bad Times
Resilience isn’t something you have or don’t have. It’s a skill that must be practiced and fine-tuned.Leaders build resilience as they cycle through hope, despair, and forgiveness.We created a process called “Appreciative Resilience,” where leaders use the power of Appreciative Inquiry (AI) to build resilience.Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blogFood for…...
How to Manage the Bottom 15%
At WD-40 about 60% believe they can achieve their career goals without leaving the company. The strategy is simple, but not necessarily easy.*LearnLeapRepeat“Every single person in your organization is on a learning curve – including you.” (Whitney Johnson at the World Business Forum 2018)Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
Only One in Ten Have the Talent to Manage
Gallup’s research reveals that about one in 10 people possess the talent to manage.” (Gallup)The myth of the great leader riding in on a white horse pollutes our thinking about the value of good management.Source - Read More at: leadershipfreak.blog...
Making Criticism a Positive Experience
In all my years managing people no one has ever asked me to criticize them. Sure, I’ve been asked for my opinion, but criticism is viewed as a bad thing. People tend to want to avoid criticism and get defensive when it comes their way. Yet it really doesn’t need…...
