Decisions, decisions! Your business lives or dies, thrives or falters, and is energized or paralyzed not only on the basis of the actual decisions that are made but – critically – on how those decisions are made. In fact, it is possible to make the right decision but make it in the wrong way. And,… Continue reading 3 Decisions that Damage Decision-making for Your Business
In our last blog, we discussed how leaders can wreck trust on their teams. Now, no leader sets out purposefully to damage trust. But it can happen, nonetheless. If you find yourself in the unenviable position of having been responsible for dismantling team trust, you have an important job ahead of you: rebuilding trust on… Continue reading A Blueprint for Rebuilding Team Trust
It is easy for a leader to wreck trust on their team. Too easy. If you as a leader are seeing a trust deficit within your team, ask yourself if you have contributed to the situation in one or more of the following seven ways: 1. You put the kibosh on communication. For trust to… Continue reading 7 Ways to Wreck Trust on Your Team
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?” – John Wooden, Coach, UCLA Bruins Over nearly two decades of coaching and developing thousands of leaders, the #1 pushback we receive for any skill or model we present – whether we are talking about giving feedback,… Continue reading Do You Really Have Time to Do a Do-over?
As a leader, you want to lead your team and your business to success. That requires clarity into current situations, sound decision-making, and agile execution. Too often, leaders fall down on the very first requirement. Why? For one simple reason: We see what we want to see. It happens time and again, such as …… Continue reading Seeing What You Want to See Leads to Big Problems
Recession. We don’t like the word and we don’t want the reality, but it may be in our collective future. As a leader, you need to anticipate that business may slow down in coming months due to inflation and recession. If you are a younger leader, you may never have experienced a recession. If you… Continue reading Five Ways to Position Your Business to Weather Recession
