The Covid-19 crisis continues to bring with it many losses and endings, all of which can impact your team’s productivity and effectiveness. What losses and endings are your team members experiencing? Here are some of the losses and endings many employees are experiencing: Loss of crucial...
As we head into back-to-school season, many professionals find themselves thinking about changing employers to progress farther, faster, or just differently in their careers. There’s certainly no shortage of opportunity at the moment, but that doesn’t mean a change is right for you. Maybe it is;...
High attrition is frustrating, expensive, risky – and 100% curable. In a recent conversation with one of the panelists for the upcoming MBTI Users Conference, I was reminded of the situation we had faced, the intensity of it, and how dramatically things changed in just a...
“How do I get my peers to speed up decision-making?” “How can I get the rest of the C-suite to agree to my recommendations for strategic investment? What worked at my old company isn’t working here. No one will commit.” “How can I get these people on...
I bet if I asked, you could rattle off dozens of examples of people who caused great harm from being drunk on power. It makes for great movies and it arguably was responsible for triggering the Great Recession. But I see a different and equally destructive...
Lately I’ve been thinking about persuasion every day. With the Bay Area in the midst of an economic boom, it seems everyone is energized and eager to get others on board with their business ideas. In the past two weeks alone, I’ve been asked to give...
In any given year, I spend 50 – 70% of my time working with entrepreneurs. This happens for several reasons. Sometimes their businesses were successful and were acquired by one of my mid-size or larger clients. At other times they hire me directly to help...
Whether you lead an organization or team, are launching a start-up, or working as a professional working in a company, your ability to tell a compelling story is essential to the success of your product or service. It makes you infinitely more interesting than your...
This month, I’m turning my attention to one of the biggest challenges in implementing a large scale change in multiple locations. As long time readers know, I’ve been using empowerment as an example this past year because you can’t efficiently scale your business unless you...
Last week, I was concluding a team-building series with a dynamite business team leader and his carefully selected team, which blended the best of the former team with newcomers from other companies and industries. We’d been focusing on understanding each other on a more personal...