If we really are tuned into what our team members are looking for from us as their leaders, we need to be intentional about providing them with the support they’ll need to accomplish their goals. Some of those goals tie right back to daily, weekly, or monthly productivity but those goals...
Setting crystal-clear objectives for the changed behaviors we need to see after training and the results those behaviors should be yielding is certainly critical but stopping there will still leave quite a bit of profitability left unclaimed! A stark reality every leader will need to face is that...
The best leaders I (Cindy) know have learned the Art of Leadership as much or more than the Science of Leadership.
The Art of Leadership Learning is the intuitive piece of gaining the right skills to lead effectively. It’s not the Science of Leadership, although that is...
If we want to have any hope of capturing the profit that’s so often killed in the recruiting process and build a strong recruiting pipeline, we’ll definitely need intentional involvement from leadership at all levels of our organizations in order to cast of clear vision of where great...
Chart Breakers are those defining moment choices that open doors for you to achieve much higher levels of success.
Chart breaking choices I (Cindy) have watched family, friends, and clients make recently include leaving a toxic culture to gain opportunity in a whole new industry. For one family...
Unfortunately, we face heartbreaking moments in our lifetime. It’s a high likelihood you already have, and I (Cindy) don’t know anyone who has made it through life with just one heartbreak. These are devastating losses and what we do with them defines our future.
A while...
Leaders become better leaders when they experience a defining moment and respond to it correctly. John Maxwell
How often do you think about the defining moments in your life and whether your choices took you in a positive direction? The more we learn from these moments the better...
Cindy and I first heard Carly Fiorina speak as part of a Live2Lead event we hosted in late 2018 then we were in a small group with her in Orlando, FL the following spring. I contacted her team after that event, which led to quite a bit of interaction with her over the next year. Carly was...
If we really want to be sure we’re providing our team members with career advancement opportunities, in an actual pursuit of happiness, rather than making them feel like no good deed goes unpunished by promoting them into a role that they have no interest in, we’d better be intention...
Did you read the subject line and sing the next phrase in your head? I kinda still am… But unlike the wheels on the bus that go round and round, the seats on our organization’s bus absolutely should not! And if we want to get really serious about the business succession planning we...
Before jumping into the next employee engagement strategy that can make a significant difference as we work toward getting everyone in the boat to pick up their oars and actually ROW, I need to share a quick point tied to what we looked at last time…
In talking about this idea of employee...
Now that we have A Practical Definition We Can Apply Right Away, let’s close this loop by looking at some practical action steps we can put in place to make sure our soft skills are yielding measurable results - just like we’d expect to see from developing new or better technical...
