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The Simple Secret to being a Healthy Leader
This is the final part of a three-part series comparing leadership and parenting. The first blog addressed the importance of determining who owns the problem – your employee or you. The second blog discussed the importance of a culture plan so employees know exactly what behaviors you expect to drive...
Why You Need a Culture Plan
What do you do when your employees act like children? In other words: When competition overshadows teamwork When comparison creates jealousy When bickering undermines collaboration A frustrated senior leader recently raised this question when her employees were more concerned about recognition and status than working together. “Our meetings are like...
How to Keep Calm and Set the Tone for Your Work Culture
As a hostage negotiator, George Kohlrieser has been held hostage four times. Even when a pair of scissors was against his throat, he chose to talk rather than call for force against his captor. In those tense moments, he chose his words carefully in order to build a connection from...
3 Behaviors that Family and Senior Leaders Should Embrace
For many years as a Marriage & Family Therapist, I worked with couples and families to strengthen relationships and work through hard times. In the first session, I emphasized the courage to ask for help and recognized it as a healthy behavior. After all, challenges are part of life and...
What is Your Plan to Get The Business Results You Want in 2017?
While getting my master's degree in psychiatric nursing, I worked on an inpatient addiction's unit. I learned about the power of addiction and the mindset of an addict who hasn't fully embraced recovery. The denial of believing that a healthier lifestyle and improved relationships can be achieved while still hanging...
What Executives View as the Top Five Priorities?
Since 2012, Deloitte has completed a Global Human Capital Trends Report to help organizations understand how the workplace is being reshaped in terms of talent, leadership, HR challenges, and readiness around the world. It is one of the largest longitudinal studies that surveys and interviews more than 7,000 business and...
10 Counterintuitive Strategies To Problem-Solving
Sheila had 15 days to meet a deadline. The project was on target until an unexpected problem arose. When she first heard the news, all she could focus on was the obstacle and not meeting the deadline. Things changed once she tried an approach that was counterintuitive to her driven...
How To Address Substance Abuse In The Workplace
We’ve all been there. In conversations with employees who deny, minimize, or blame others for their actions. In the case of substance use, you may even have tangible evidence to support your reasonable suspicion of drug/alcohol use and the employee is still taking you in circles. By the end, you...
5 Signs You Are A Controller …
This blog is the second of a multi-blog series addressing how events during family upbringing affect your conflict pattern and business relationships. 5 Signs You Are A Controller ... 1. My way or the highway You have a vision of how things should be done and...
4 Risks of Taking a Stand with an Abrasive Boss
Diane had it. For almost two years she had worked evenings and week-ends to take the company sales to a higher level. The company's annual revenue had grown 11% since she had joined the organization. Since the beginning of her employment she remained open and respectful when she received critical...