Questions are powerful. It takes courage to ask and answer them honestly. For example: Are you stuck in a job and going nowhere? Do you want to get ahead in your career? Are you doing interviews but getting no job offers? Have you landed a few jobs and they ended up being entirely different than […]

How do you really inspire people? It begins with you. Be inspired to be better in your approach. Then, start with the source: your team, your people, your employees. There are many reasons this all-too-easy and gets bypassed, doubted and ignored. If you ask, you appear to be a great leader. But, if you don’t do anything differently, […]

How many times have you heard the statement, nobody communicates around here?  With all of the new technology, research says people are communicating more but it’s less effective. A Manager Changes A manager I know does a good job, but recently his team gave him feedback that nobody communicates around here. It shook him to […]

To significantly improve team performance, coaching offers a new role for today’s managers. Good coaching requires day to day engagement with employees to give assistance as needed.  Few managers do this well.  Behaviorists Evert and Selman have over 15 years of  study about organizational effectiveness. They argue that, “a management paradigm based on coaching can […]

When you’re the manager, it can be down-right difficult to get candid feedback from our employees. When you do you tap a potential often unrealized in you. However, often times critiques or compliments are coated with ulterior motives or filtered by fear. Your team doesn’t want to tell you something that might put them on […]

How do you get someone to follow you?  Most leaders rely on position power that comes with their job title. The presence and impact of Servant Leaders depends on their personal power.  Leadership through position power involves these strategies: Domination approach. Employees are subordinate. “Do as I say!” Fear strategies. The leader has all the […]