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What Would an MRI Scan of Your Leadership Reveal?
Doctors use MRIs to find problems before they become more serious. What if you could do the same for your leadership and organization? Here are the 5 areas to look out for.
12 Signs the Wheels Are Falling Off Your Organization
Recently, the front left tire fell off my daughter’s car and flew across four lanes of traffic! Slowly, with a little corrosion, the tire just worked its way off! That same thing can happen to organizations. Here are 12 warning signs that the wheels may be falling off your organization, and what you can do to prevent it.
4 Great Reasons to “Fight” for a Compelling Vision
While there are plenty of bad examples of “fighting” these days, there are also good reasons to stand up for meaningful vision and values. Here are four great reasons to “fight.”
6 Converging Forces Impacting Our Country, Community & Church
It is not an easy time to lead. Leaders have been using terms like “upside down,” “crazy,” and “broken” lately. This is due to the many converging forces that are impacting our country, community, and church right now. Here's what those forces are.
9 Things to Look for in an Organizational Consultant or Coach
As vital as seeking outside help for your organization is, the process can be daunting if you don’t know where to start or how to interview potential consultants. Here are nine things to look for when searching for the best consultant or coach to serve your organization.
7 Culture Builders to Attract & Retain Your Best People
“If you mistreat our staff, you will be refused service.” That statement sounds reasonable, but healthy cultures attract people rather than repel them. Here are seven culture builders that will attract the best team members and customers to your organization.
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Meetings: 10 Ways to Make Your Leadership Meetings More Impactful [VIDEO]
Meetings can often be timewasters. Here are 10 tips that will save you and your leadership team hours in meetings by improving your productivity and helping you reach decisions faster.
The Leader Who Travels Without A Trusted Guide… Gets Lost: 3 Things to Look for When Choosing a Guide
People use guides for many reasons: hunting, traveling, rafting, etc. But leaders are on a journey too, and it can be worth having a guide assist you in reaching your greatest accomplishments. Here are 3 things to look for when choosing a guide, coach, or consultant.
Building Loyalty: How to Avoid the "25th Amendment" in Your Team
What would happen if our businesses, churches, and nonprofit organizations had the authority to remove their leader? Like on Survivor, would your team vote you off the island? If the answer might be yes, here are seven actions to earn and retain your team’s loyalty.
How to Prevent a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly of Your Team
The past few years placed more pressures on teams than any other time in recent history. Here are 4 ways you can prevent your team from experiencing a Rapid Unscheduled Disassembly, also known as an explosion.
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Boards: How to Improve Your Board’s Effectiveness [VIDEO]
A well-functioning team, where everyone understands their role and works together, is a thing of beauty to watch. Sadly, we often see boards that do not function this way. Here are five ways to improve the effectiveness of your board of directors.
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Conflict: How to Fight Right [VIDEO]
Conflict in organizations and relationships is inevitable. But you have the option to make it valuable by learning to fight right instead of letting it become toxic and destructive. Here are four elements in learning how to fight right.
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Teams: 5 Traits of a High Performing Team [VIDEO]
Some teams just chase the next thing in front of them. Others rely on a single “superstar” to carry them. But neither of these methods will allow a team to be successful in the long run. Here are five traits of high performing teams.
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Strategic Planning: 4 Key Elements of an Effective Strategic Plan [VIDEO]
“Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction.” So how do you keep your organization headed in the right direction? With a clear plan. Here are 4 key elements of an effective strategic plan.
How to Build Trust in Challenging Times
"Dum spiro spero. While I breathe, I hope." As leaders, right now we need to build a deeper level of trust with those we lead. Here are five steps to build trust in challenging times.
“Trust Who?” What to Do When You Lose Trust in Others
There are consequences to placing our trust in leaders that squander it, but there are also devastating consequences in refusing to trust at all. So, what are we supposed to do when we lose trust in others? Here are 5 actions to take.
6 Essential Traits Needed in Every Member of Your Team - Starting Now
Every leader is only as good as the team he or she has recruited, and recent shifts in our world have re-defined the traits needed by members of successful teams. Here are the 6 essential traits.
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Leadership: 4 Keys to Monitoring & Managing Organizational Health [VIDEO]
It is hard to manage what you don’t monitor. To be a smart leader, you must pay attention to the gauges of organizational health that let you know if you are navigating correctly. Here are four keys to monitoring organizational health.
11 Things to Remember When Working from Home
As we adjust to the new ‘normal’ of social isolation and social distancing, working from home or working remotely is a reality for you and many of your employees. Here are 11 things we are learning as we adjust to a new virtual workplace.
6 Signs of The Shadow Side of Your Organization & 6 Actions to Contain It
Every organization has a visible side and a somewhat invisible side also known as… the shadow side. This is the unhealthy underlying organization within the organization. Sometimes the shadow side is inactive, like a dormant cancer cell in the body. When it is inactive, it is somewhat harmless. But when it becomes active, things can get ugly very fast. Here are the warning signs of an active shadow side and what to do to advance the health of the organization.