Leadership Talk
Becoming the five people we hang around with most
If we become the average of the five people we hang around with most, it serves us to ask and answer questions along the way.
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How effective people edit their way to results
Our daily challenge is to amplify the signal and reduce the noise by editing our actions down to a list that focuses on the essential and limits the busywork.
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Unlocking some secrets about executive coaching
Nearly everything we do has numerous paths to deliver a result. Executive coaching is no exception. While there aren’t hard and fast rules to define a successful coach-client relationship, there are some worthwhile things to consider before working with a coach....
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Real-time lessons for accelerating learning and growth
High-performance is propelled by hanging out with people who care about us and who care to challenge our thinking along the way.
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Powerful exercises to propel your leadership effectiveness
As you consider ways to increase leadership effectiveness, two exercises help uncover and highlight your leadership style and values to share with your team. These exercises are especially useful for leaders assuming new responsibilities or adding team members and...
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Crush the fear of rapid decision making
Leaders are required to make decisions and deliver results. When we face a problem, we make decisions, we act, and we succeed, fail, and sometimes learn. As we reflect on a decision, we often find that the decision and subsequent actions were available to us early in...
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Recognizing your go-to people
Photo credit: Simon Migaj for stocksnap.io We may not spend much time thinking about it, but every leader has go-to people on their team whom they count on to get things done. What does a go-to person look like? You know they will move mountains to solve a problem....
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Stop thinking, start moving, and zap the mental gridlock
My caption for this picture: Mind over mattress this week. Start something. Start anything. Move. Starting and moving are not remedies for laziness. They are remedies for being stuck. Too often, we wrestle with problems in our head in a few ways. First, we do not work...
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A case for the non-obvious hire
Early in my career, I was searching for a hands-on IT pro to support a migration from a single desktop to a fully-networked, SAP-enabled location. The HR director led the search, and we interviewed several candidates. We had a difference of opinion on the final two....
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