Tag Archives: team
Lead Your Workplace Where It Is Afraid To Go
Rules of Engagement When was the last time you can recall hearing people excited to be at work? There is something to be said about a positive work environment. You know it the moment you walk into it. The same can be said of the opposite. Which of the two environments best describe your workplace? [...]
Tackling Workplace Bullying With a Wealth of New Resources
Over the last several years a plethora of information, advice, and resources have become available on the national topic of workplace bullying. More recently career sites, hosted media spotlights, and columns have attempted to offer advice to targets of workplace bullying. Often well-intended to help targets, however, the dispersed advice is often given in a [...]
Turning the Spotlight on Talent
Working in a creative, open culture has its share of ups and downs. Bringing fresh ideas and smart concepts to life calls for highly skilled individuals and leaders who are willing to speak up and who understand how to thrive in a freedom-filled yet intense environment. Leading in this environment requires being able to infuse [...]
Make It Memorable in the Moment
Recognition doesn’t need to be complicated. Just make it memorable. There’s no one-size-fits-all approach to recognizing people in the new workplace. Tailoring a customized recognition approach can make memorable experiences given diverse workforce shifts, and current organizational values and cultures. Here’s a six-step process to developing a strategy for making those memorable moments. Identify the [...]
The Biggest Wins Are With Us
We have one life to run the best race set before us. Our potential to achieve is intended for us to first learn what our own best race is by understanding the key talents, strengths, motivation, passion, and creativity that live within us. How we fuse all of these intangible attributes into becoming worthy outcomes we desire from [...]
Are You Facing a Check Point in Your Work Life?
Ginny, a single mother of four children suddenly found herself taking a good hard look in the mirror one evening. She had worked for many years within the corporate world and was now faced with the possibility of another transition. Yet for the first time since she could remember, there was no smile, no joy [...]
How Can Loyalty Be Found in the New Workplace?
Loyalty is greatly valued by organizations; with integrity and trust being the other two critical intangibles. The question remains, is it ranked fairly? Leaders have to ask themselves whether other members of management are really team players. While finding new breakthroughs or creating the next greatest thing is still noble, the risk involved may place [...]
Why Not You?
Kinokawa Station in Wakayama marked the beginning of an unusual leadership journey for Konosuke Matsushita. At the age of four Konosuke’s family lost their entire fortune leaving his desperate parents to find alternate ways to care for his five sisters and two brothers. In late November 1904 at the young age of nine, his mother [...]
Leadership: Are We Gaining Potential?
While we endeavor to address and meet the demands of the season we find ourselves drawn into yet another need; that of metrics, team and personal performance reviews. We find ourselves looking back over the year that is now drawing to a close trying to assess where we were and how far we have truly come. Are [...]
Everything We Want Is Just Outside Our Comfort Zone – Keep Going Beyond
Is the first thought of your morning and the last worry of the evening dominating your day? Is it looming over your shoulder and robbing your leadership from experiencing greater depth, meaning and purpose in your work? With big-hairy challenges facing today’s workplace in greater proportions, is there any wonder why many people leaders are [...]
