“Based on my experience working with teams during the past 10 years or so, I’ve come to one inescapable conclusion: no quality or characteristic is more important than trust. In fact, my work with teams resolves around trust more than any other topic.” – Patrick Lencioni, author of The Five Dysfunctions of a Team Trust […]
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“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin Change is the one constant that we all face. You can’t avoid it. But you do have a choice. Will you use change for growth or for deterioration? In my last
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Do you have a vision to make something better, but for it to become a reality, you need to be leading change with others? We face social change in the workplace all the time. Do you have a new process that you need to implement at work that requires your team to be on board
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Are you going through a transition right now? This time of year can be the beginning of changes with children returning to school and organizations preparing for their fall season. I recently learned about the stages that a caterpillar goes through in order to transform into a butterfly. The process reminded me of the stages
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“I give you a new command: Love each other. You must love each other as I have loved you. All people will know that you are my followers if you love each other.” – Jesus (John 13:34-35 –NCV) The greatest testament to being a leader is if people follow your leadership model. Jesus’ model was
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It is great to have a mission to follow. The definition of mission is: an important goal or purpose that is accomplished with strong conviction. Mission brings purpose and meaning to our day. It is also invigorating to have vision. Vision is the act or power of anticipating that which will or may come to
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Do you ever feel stuck? Are you looking for transformational solutions to problems? I recently had a conversation with a client about a situation where he was feeling stuck. He had an employee who was disgruntled and was dealing with her frustration in passive-aggressive ways. The client felt frustrated by the way this employee was
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Do you ever get distracted? Distractions can rob us of time, energy and productivity. Here are three distractions to avoid: Choosing the good over the best. We are often given many good choices of activities we can be doing and how we spend our time. We then try to deal with the many good choices
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What is your reason for the season? If you work and lead in retail, it can often be just to survive this busy season. For those in education, it is to just get to winter break. For some industries, they look forward to the manufacturing shut-down at the end of the year. For many not-for-profit
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Nancy is a high performing leader. She is known for getting results, and she knows how to win. Her performance review was going well, until her team member’s ratings of her were reviewed. The bottom-line feedback from others was that they did not like working with Nancy. Nancy realized that if she wanted to be
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