With Thanksgiving right around the corner many of us will embark upon a considerable gift buying spree for the Holiday Season. Some of us will practically break the bank in an effort to show love and appreciation for family members and significant friends. But what about the other people in our lives that are significant due toContinue reading “4 Unique Gifts You Can Give Your Employees During This Holiday Season”
I hope you don’t mind that I keep writing about The Walking Dead. Obviously sitting here on a Wednesday morning my brain is still processing what I have watched from the previous episode on Sunday evening. In all my years as a management consultant I don’t think I have ever seen a more intense exampleContinue reading “Number One Leadership Task: Understand Your People!”
“You are an S-I personality style. Your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you take things in primarily via intuition. Your secondary mode is external, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit with your personal value system. You are gentle, caring, complex and highlyContinue reading “Rick Grimes (The Walking Dead) an S-I Personality Style? Read Further And Let Me Know If You Agree”
Self-awareness is an important—if not the most important—quality of good leaders. This newsletter highlights three leadership assessments that pinpoint strengths as well as challenges in personality and behavioral style. Heightening awareness of strengths allows leaders to diminish the negative impact they have on others. After closing my laptop on Walter White for the last newsletter, another angleContinue reading “Leader Self-Awareness: Averting the Train Wreck”
There is one vital “skill” that rises above all others for leader success: self-awareness. And the one thing that appears to be most lacking is, as you might guess: self-awareness! In this article I urge you to increase your knowledge of the impact you have on others because whether you know it or not, yourContinue reading “What I Learned From Walter White”
Wanted: Plumber with experience who knows which way (fill in the blank) runs and who can communicate same to leaders who are absolutely convinced they are not the purveyors of (fill in the blank)!! To a large degree, plumbers unclog pipes and drains, right! And while vitally important, particularly under certain circumstances, it’s not tooContinue reading “2 Toxic Habits That Can Drain Trust And Productivity Out Of Your Workplace”