Workplace Body Language for Leadership You have prepared for product pitch for months and now are finally in front of senior leadership. The meeting wasn’t going well. Your team worked through the plan under your leadership with all the possible alternatives. Everyone on the team worked hard and all contributed. You were set. As the leader of the team it is up to you to ensure this goes well so the project is funded. Now you are looking at a […]
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The multi-generational workplace is common and the biggest age span to date is currently occurring. As a leader, does keeping pace with the work get in the way of making everyone happy? With four (or more) generations in the workplace, personalities differ and challenges are present for each generation. The diversity is desirable but how do you keep them all motivated and communicating? First, you should know the workplace generalizations about your own generation. Second, you have to know what […]
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Leadership’s Changing Relationship No shocker, the workplace is changing. The market shifts, raw materials are not available or are no longer environmentally or socio-economically friendly – so things change. Consumer demand has changed, technology changed, available information has changed. Internet is pervasive and requires tossing the old marketing standards when communicating with consumers, customers or a client, never mind employees, because those same messaging tools do not produce the same results. The way we do business now cannot be the […]
Read more →Finding Success Working Above Your Title Let me rant for a moment. If I had a nickel for every time someone, when asked about their career, told me they were waiting to get promoted, I would be rich. Rich, I say! The truth is that, when it comes to your career, you’re in the driver seat. When you are in the driver seat you know that you have to drive. Seriously, if one of my people came to me and […]
Read more →How to Create Success for Your Team Seriously, don’t we all want to “foster” “success” as leaders? My definition of success includes going home at night feeling like we really moved the mark today. We did good work and it was appreciated. Companies like 3M, Smith Sport Optics, Deckers, Patagonia know how to build the environments that inspire creativity. Do they have meetings, budgets, hiring freezes and the normal worries of business today like supply chain issues and quality breakdowns?Absolutely, […]
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Learning and Growing From Conflict in the Workplace You’re all invited to a workshop on conflict management! YAY! Now that sounds fun right? Yeah, I thought your calendar just got filled beyond availability. Talking about conflict, conflict resolution, conflict management or whatever you want to call it, brings fear into the room. Knowing they’re bringing in an outside consultant for a “team building” makes even me want to roll my eyes. Then I remember I am that outside consultant. I […]
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As a Leader, What Should Information Mean to You? There are certain things that certain individuals know and certain things that no one speaks of when discussing management style or leadership qualities. No one tells you when you approach a room as a CEO, CFO, CIO, CTO or Chief of your discipline that you are solely responsible to know the value of information presented or what is missing from presentations. Most likely, you probably possess some really strong instincts or […]
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