Despite our best intentions, it’s sometimes hard NOT to assume or misinterpret someone’s intentions or jump to the negative.
And while we all know that giving someone the benefit of the doubt or assuming the positive is the correct answer to the situation, it’s also hard to make this complete jump from negative to positive.
Today, I’m presenting an alternative – an alternative with four major bonuses that will help you be more successful as a leader and as a person.
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Organizational culture is almost becoming cliché. Yet, culture is vital to both employee and customer experiences. Brand expert Denise Lee Yohn and author of Fusion: How Integrating Brand and Culture Powers the World’s Greatest Companies shares insight to building a culture unique to you and aligning that culture with your brand. You need to connect the internal view (what it’s like to work here) with the external view (how people see you).
In this episode, Kevin and Denise discuss 1. Lessons to create fusion at any level. 2. Brand types. 3. Artifacts and rituals.
Having a highly committed team takes investment and time. And achieving this valuable objective requires one thing to happen first.
Check out this episode to find out the secret to a more committed team.
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The height of your team’s performance is directly related to the depth of connection among its members. Jeff Manchester, co-author of THE POWER OF VULNERABILITY: How to Create a Team of Leaders by Shifting INward, discusses vulnerability in the workplace. To see greater results, we need to develop a culture that builds in confidentiality.
In this episode, learn about 1. INpowerment vs. Empowerment. 2. Vulnerability in the workplace. 3. Role of a leader to create deeper connections.
Today we're talking about complacency. Unfortunately, it's all too easy to become complacent in some area of our lives. And I've heard more than one leader say, "I've let myself slip and become complacent."
So today, I'm giving us solutions.
Check out this episode for five specific tips to help you combat complacency, to have more learning and be more productive and successful.
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Managing people is complex, amazing and messy. Carol Sanford challenges they way we think about leadership and best practices. She is the author of several books, including her latest, The Regenerative Business, which shifts our way of working so that we see innovation, financial gain, and customer loyalty while building human capacity. She tasks leaders to questions build educational infrastructure to focus on reflection.
In this episode, Carol discusses 1. Promise beyond ableness. 2. Toxic best practices (and the instead).
While the title of this post is about taking ownership, in truth, it's about accountability.
And accountability starts with ownership.
If we want to model the right behavior for our teams, it starts with us. In this episode, I'm asking a series of question to help us think about how we are behaving and how we can help to set the right example for our team.
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How can we leverage differences to achieve our business goals? The idea of diversity has been around for years and we need to move beyond that to succeed. Jane Hyun, author of Flex: The New Playbook for Managing Across Differences, discusses cultural fluency to navigate across groups. This is vital today as we have seen shifts in not only the demographics of our workforce (i.e. Millennials) but with our investors, vendors, suppliers…
In this episode, find out about 1. Cultural fluency. 2. Flexing. 3. Power distance.
We are all busy. Ask five people how they’ve been and I can almost guarantee that you will hear more than once, “I’ve been busy.” In fact, the idea of “busyness” has almost become a badge of honor.
But the whole idea behind busy is it’s all about activity. We’re doing a bunch of stuff, a bunch of tasks. But what are we really accomplishing?
We need to shift our focus from ACTIVITY to ACCOMPLISHMENTS.
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