Top Three Leadership Obstacles

Top Three Leadership Obstacles

As a leader, you get paid to overcome the daily obstacles your team faces and to drive the overall results which your organization expects. No argument there. But what about the obstacles you face as a leader? What are the common stumbling blocks leaders encounter and...

Stop Assuming Your Team Understands Expectations

I was recently speaking with a client, Tim, who runs a $200 million division of a larger company. The topic of our conversation revolved around one of his direct reports, Neal, who was not delivering up to Tim’s expectations. Tim has been dealing with this issue for...
A Critical Character Diagnosis

A Critical Character Diagnosis

As a leader, you know you have influence with people and are in a position on your team to accurately diagnosis key character traits that compose and affect team dynamics. Your ability to make this assessment will serve you well, and help to avoid a great deal of...
Does Your Team Prefer To Be Managed Or Led?

Does Your Team Prefer To Be Managed Or Led?

Most people would agree that accomplishing a challenging goal with success requires everyone on the team to operate at a high level of performance. The more challenging the goal, the higher the performance level must be. So this raises two helpful questions, “When do...