Achieving Results in Unpredictable Times

As a manager, you’re supposed to be in charge, but of what? Shifting company strategy, markets changing with the wind, unclear priorities from your manager, even a direct report who may or may not be happy with her role in...

Building trust with the people you work with can seem like a daunting task especially if they work remotely. You don’t have to go on a three-day retreat to build trust though. Trust starts with yourself. Assess your credibility and...

Does everyone on your team know the team’s top two or three priorities (WIGs) and how they will align their efforts to achieve them? Wildly Important Goals (or WIGs) are the few, highly important goals that must be achieved or...

Have you avoided a difficult conversation and inadvertently caused the situation to worsen? Leading difficult conversations is a leadership challenge that’s so daunting many avoid it. Yet, if you don’t do it as a leader, you frankly don’t deserve your...

When leading change, are you calm, confident, and focused — or anxious, threatened, and scattered? Change comes at us nonstop in every form: organizational structures, market competition, government regulations, tax laws, revenue expectations, financial and accounting requirements, quality initiatives, unexpected events… it’s...

Are you seeing people and situations accurately? Dr. Covey popularized the term “paradigm,” which comes from the Greek root paradigma, meaning a pattern, model, or representation of something. Our paradigms are the perceptions, frames of reference, worldviews, value systems, or...

Are you and your team delivering activities instead of results? Are the results the right ones? Paraphrasing Henry Ford, “Nobody ever built a reputation on what they said they were going to do.” If you’re a leader, you already have...

Does everyone on your team know the team’s top two or three priorities (WIGs) and how they will align their efforts to achieve them? Wildly Important Goals (or WIGs) are the few, highly important goals that must be achieved or...

Are you consistently assessing your relevance and advancing your skills and capabilities? This challenge isn’t about making incremental improvements in your professional development, relevance, or competencies. It’s about not just doubling down but quadrupling down in order to stand out...