Google’s research finds that psychologically safe teams outperform the rest. What the company refers to as the “perfect team” is built on four principles.
Extreme listening taps sources of information that help you solve people problems faster and more effectively. Extreme listening hears the emotional component of problem and the solution. This post includes a 3 step guide to extreme listening.
What do I mean by the speed and beauty of emotional intelligence? Emotions have energy. Energy travels quickly through time and space. Emotional intelligence, the ability to read and interpret emotions, allows us to respond quickly and beautifully to a vast array of human situations. Robert Kennedy’s response the night Martin Luther King was murdered is a stellar example of the speed and beauty of emotional intelligence.
Let’s take a different route to uncovering your biggest leadership challenge by identifying your biggest opportunity. We start with the understanding that true leadership in it’s highest form is a catalyst for the evolution of human kind.
The six principles of personal change are based on my work with 100s of leaders who’ve succeeded in changing long standing patterns of thinking and behaving.
While dining in a local restaurant, our waitress, who is also a first grade teacher, teaches us how to create a great customer service culture in 5 easy steps.
Truism “Deprived of meaningful work men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.” Dostoyevsky. We make much ado about employee engagement, but it trickles down, or not, from leadership engagement. How engaged are you as a leader. Find out by answering six simple questions.
This is a personal story that sealed an important lesson into my being. When we refuse to touch the reality of a thing, it will express itself at another time and in another place. It will keep expressing itself until it finds a way to wake us.
In a recent presentation to managers on employee motivation, participants highlighted what matters most when it comes to their own motivation. The number one factor is a meaningful challenge. Challenge means they have the skills needed but must stretch these same skills, and possibly some new ones to succeed They also indicated the recognition by managers and leaders are the most important rewards.
Our organizations are built on foundations of fear that retard progress. Where and how do we learn to recognize and overcome our fears? In this post, I turn to Shamanism for answers.
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