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Engage Your Colleagues | 03.12.2019

How to Stop Being “Them” and Start Being “Us”

If you want to be an effective leader, you’ve got to work hard to demonstrate that you’re not one of “them” but are, instead, one of “us.” Here are three actionable ideas to get started.

Leverage Your Team | 03.06.2019

What Have You Learned from Your Worst Boss Ever?

Want to improve your leadership? Think of the worst boss you’ve ever had and do the opposite. Here are some common bad boss behaviors to get you started.

Manage Yourself | 02.27.2019

How to Know If You’re Keeping the Right Pace for Yourself

If there’s one behavior that underlies managing yourself effectively, it’s pacing yourself by building in regular breaks from work. Here are 3 markers to know if you’re keeping the right pace and what to adjust if you’re not.

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.