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Engage Your Colleagues | 02.19.2019

Your Checklist for Leading with an “Us” Mindset

As you grow as a leader, your mindset needs to shift from “me” to “us.” Unfortunately, some leaders never make the shift. How are you doing? Here’s a checklist you can use for a self-assessment.

Leverage Your Team | 02.13.2019

How to Stop Inspiring Your Team to Underperformance

Are there things you’re doing as a leader that are unintentionally inspiring your team to underperformance? Here are three common traps I see and my advice on how you can avoid them.

Manage Yourself | 02.08.2019

Don’t Assume the Worst

When I asked communications expert, Dr. Nick Morgan, for his one best piece of advice for anyone who wants to be a more effective virtual communicator, his answer was quick, simple and powerful, “Don’t assume the worst.” Here’s the back story on why Nick offered that advice and how you…

Leverage Your Team | 01.28.2019

Leading After the Shutdown

How can leaders support their teams after a government shutdown or other traumatic events? Here are some simple and practical ideas inspired by a friend and colleague who is, herself, an amazing Federal government leader.

Engage Your Colleagues | 01.22.2019

Are You Working With People or Through People?

As a leader, are you working with people and through people? And what’s the difference between the two? Only one leads to the influence you need to accomplish meaningful things as a leader.

Leverage Your Team | 01.11.2019

Are You Triaging or Prioritizing Your Work?

Most leaders and their teams have more to accomplish than time available to do it all. So, they spend a ton of effort prioritizing their work. What a lot of them are doing is not prioritizing but triaging. Here’s the difference.

Manage Yourself | 01.03.2019

What Habits Are You Building This Year? Here Are Mine (and What I’m Learning from Them)

What habits do you plan to build this year? Here are some of the ones I'm working on and the success strategies that are helping me follow through on them.

Communications | 12.12.2018

How to Be A Better Virtual Communicator

Surely you’ve noticed that most conference calls, video conferences, e-mail threads and virtually any other form of virtual communications pretty much stink. Why is that and what can we do about it? Dr. Nick Morgan, author of Can You Hear Me? has the answers.

Leadership | 10.02.2018

Three Reasons Leaders Should Ask for Help

Buying into the hero myth can cause leaders to crash and burn. Here are three reasons why, if you’re a leader, you should lose the myth and ask for help.

Leadership | 08.20.2018

Five Questions to Ask When You Take on the Top Job

There is always a multiplier effect when you take on a bigger role. It’s even more exponential when you take on the top job. Here are five questions to ask yourself when you’re new to the top job or on the way there.