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Feb 17, 2022

Avoid Communication Issues Using These 11 Questions

Every big decision generates obstacles and opportunities. How can leaders avoid backlash from a decision? Elevating your communication is certain to help and is a critical initial step in the process. From my experience, hands down, communication issues are THE. MOST. COMMON. challenge plaguing the majority of today’s organizations and hindering greater success. If it’s […]

Apr 15, 2021

What Abandonment Taught Me About Adaptability & Success

Don’t be caught standing in your own way to achieving success. Abandoned as a child, I learned that adaptability is key to achieving your goals. Here’s why.

Mar 31, 2021

Difficult Employee? Try These 3 Actions

Have a difficult employee driving a wedge between you, other employees, and even customers? These three leadership actions can help turn performance around.

Aug 20, 2020

Managing Change? Use These 7 Questions

The COVID-19 pandemic is undoubtedly a season of incredible change, great stress and heightened fear for all of us. In fact, in a recent survey, 7 out of 10 employees indicated the COVID-19 pandemic is the most stressful of their entire professional career. Many leaders, their people and their organizations are overwhelmed managing change along […]

Jan 14, 2020

One Habit to Consistently Make Great Decisions

Hey leaders, managers, moms, dads, teachers, coaches — whoever you are, whenever you’re struggling to make great decisions… If you want to make great decisions consistently, here’s one habit you should be practicing. Here’s a story to illustrate the point.

Dec 31, 2019

Decision Making Tools I Learned from Umpire School

Decision making tools or processes don’t seem to get taught very much. But knowing how to make good decisions is so critical to every aspect of our lives. Here are five decision making tools I learned from professional umpire school 40 years ago. I’ve applied these five lessons of decision-making to virtually every decision I’ve […]

Nov 5, 2019

Use a Devil’s Advocate for Better Decisions

Want to get a decision right? Learn how using a devil’s advocate to vet critical decisions before finalizing and enacting them can help you make better decisions.

Oct 25, 2019

Grey’s Anatomy Leadership Lesson

Grey’s Anatomy has been my guilty pleasure since it first aired in 2005. I have always loved Grey…and McDreamy…and now even DeLuca, but today I want to take a look at Jo. I am a keynote speaker, trainer, and (soon to be) author on leadership and in Season 16 Jo perfectly played out leadership principles […]

Jun 4, 2019

Think Like A Leader

In order to think like a leader, you must be proactive. Consider these six thought processes to help you become a better leader. Think Like A Leader: Thought Processes Explorative Thought Comparative Thought Predictive Thought Creative Thought Deliberative Thought Interactive Thought

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