by Bill Bliss | Jul 16, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Leadership, Teams
“Leadership is all about influence, nothing more and nothing less” so said John Maxwell many years ago. A leader leads when they can influence or persuade others to do something or go somewhere for a greater cause or purpose. Lacking influencing skills denies a...
by Bill Bliss | Jul 2, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Leadership, Teams
Does your team seem frustrated and not as productive as you’d like? Most teams are not producing what they are capable of because of poor leadership or a lack of unity on the team. Are you ready to deal with this and transform them into a highly productive and high...
by Bill Bliss | Jun 25, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Leadership, Teams
In his book The Advantage Patrick Lencioni has written about the importance of having a cohesive leadership team. He says the next competitive advantage for organizations is having a leadership team that is cohesive as measured by 5 critical elements. ...
by Bill Bliss | Jun 4, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Coaching, Teams
The evidence is clear – the most successful leaders have a laser-like focus on a few major goals and resist the tendency to have many goals they are trying to advance. As Jim Collins has said, “Good is the enemy of great” meaning that as talented leaders, we can do a...
by Bill Bliss | May 28, 2014 | Bill's Blog, Coaching, Teams
“No good leader puts off to tomorrow what they can delegate today” are the wise words of Peter Drucker. Many of the leaders I work with have a difficult time delegating. As a matter of fact, there has only been one executive in my career who was known to be the...
by Bill Bliss | Jul 24, 2012 | Bill's Blog, Communication, Leadership
As we continue from my last post regarding the creation of clarity as it relates to Driving Organizational Health, it is important to over-communicate clarity. Pat Lencioni explains in his book The Advantage that this third discipline for building Organizational...