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Do You Coach Team Values?
Learn how to coach individuals toward aligning their performance with team values using a structured approach, fostering growth, collaboration, and collective success.
The Team Power Couple: Values & Agreement
Team agreements translate team values into actionable commitments, fostering clarity, trust, and efficiency, while aligning behaviors with core principles for a cohesive work environment.
Do Team Values Really Work?
Team values are effective when genuinely embraced and practiced, fostering alignment, trust, collaboration, and conflict resolution. However, they fail if not actively upheld by all.
Inspire Your Team - Do a Theme
As fall approaches, consider rebooting your team’s work rhythm with a collective theme, boosting cohesion, motivation, and productivity through social neuroscience principles.
Conscious Pacing - Boosting Job Satisfaction
By consciously pacing your work, you can achieve a harmonious balance between productivity and well-being, managing your personal capacity mitigating high levels of stress and burn-out.
The Myth of Multi-Tasking
Conscious pacing is critically important in helping us slow down and focus on one task at a time. This week's e-coach explains how such an approach can actually boost productivity and work quality.
Have You Done Your Mid-Year Check-In?
Checking in with yourself is vital for life and work satisfaction. Regular self-assessments help maintain mental and emotional health, preventing burnout and promoting personal growth. Make it a habit to pause, reflect, and connect with your authentic self regularly.
Beyond Performance: Track Your Impact
Track your influence, impact, and ripple effect to see the bigger picture. Use a log to document your contributions, enhancing your resume, pay, and self-esteem. Embrace your unique career story and share it confidently.
The Strength in Not Knowing: Embracing Innovative Thinking
In leadership, strength lies in embracing the unknown. Innovation flourishes when leaders admit they don’t have all the answers and are open to new ideas. By challenging assumptions and fostering continuous learning and safe experimentation, leaders inspire creativity and drive meaningful change.
Unlocking Potential: Differentiating Skills, Capabilities, and Innate Talents
It's fascinating how often people underestimate their talents and potential because they don't fully grasp the distinctions between skills, capabilities, aptitudes, and natural talents.
Enjoy Your Work More With This One Simple Tip
Work. It's the one thing most adults can't escape. But there's one little thing that makes all the difference... Are you paying attention?
Human Behavior
Debunking Change Management - Part 2
The intent of change management is to produce better outcomes, which means change management is also simultaneously results management.
Human Behavior
Debunking Change Management - Part 1
In essence, change management is all about changing thinking & behaviors. It's about guiding individuals and teams to embrace new ways of working, thinking, and interacting.
Company Culture
Do You Know The Gateway To Exceptional Leadership?
Hint: It involves deep thinking. Let me walk you through the 5 elements of deep thinking, and the 5 steps on how to cultivate deep thinking in leadership.
The Biggest Deception in Leadership Thinking (You'll Want to Know)
A cool aspect of understanding the role human behavior plays in achieving new results is that every behavior has an initial impact and a ripple effect.
Leadership
A Surprising Employee Morale Booster - That's Completely Free!
In typical performance management plans, what seems to be commonly included is the practice of 1/1s - individual performance check-ins. If conducted well, they certainly can be positive and constructive. But what do we do to nurture positive connections and morale boosters in between those times?
Management
An Important Insight for Employee Morale
One set of words we use frequently, related directly to employee morale, are (1) appreciation, (2) rewards, and (3) recognition, and they are typically clumped together. Each has its own definition and impact.
Leadership
Too Much of a Good Thing - The Dark Side of Productivity
How does productivity become toxic? How can we foster healthy productivity? And what impact can it have on your team and organization? Read on to discover the answers, and watch the full video for more.
Human Behavior
Where Has the Time Gone?
I see time management as life management. So I conclude, if you value your life, you will value your time. And if you value your time, you will want to intentionally develop life (time) management practices to ensure you are producing the kind of life you want.
Do You See Time as a Business Partner?
No matter what the corporate makeup of your organization - for profit or not - the ability to be an effective steward of all resources is a critical competency for every leader and employee. Among those resources is time. After all, if you're not using it - you&
Transform Your Leadership with a Power Hour
Did you know you have a Power Hour? Well... I should say you have one, but you may or may not be using it.
The Most Misunderstood Quality of Great Leadership
Look at nearly any list of essential qualities for a leader, and you'll find what I've dubbed the "most misunderstood quality of leadership." Which quality do you think I'm reffering to? I'll spare you the Google search... I asked ChatGPT
Leadership
Are You An Effective Leader?
Last week, I asked the question "What will your story be in 2023?" If you took that question to heart and began to write out what you really want your 2023 to look like (or downloaded the questions), then it's time for the next step. As