If someone as driven as the friend I mentioned before can lose some motivation or feel burnout when they donât feel like theyâre making a meaningful impact, Iâm convinced anyone with any level of leadership responsibility will too - sooner or later! And if business owners and leaders need a clear pu...
Make no mistake, knowing what our team members are looking for from us is not terribly complicated! They will definitely make a point of telling us. That will generally (but not always) be direct and/or verbal early in our process of working to earn leadership with them, but it will get harder and h...
After a couple of references to a song so new as 2016, I feel like I need to mix in something from the hair band era to maintain my street cred so letâs think in terms of Shelter Me by one of the most talented bands ever included in that genre, Cinderella. After naming a list of vices people resort ...
Last time I shared something I first heard John Maxwell say more than a decade ago regarding voluntary turnover, âSome sources estimate that as many as 65% of people leaving companies do so because of their managers⌠The âcompanyâ doesnât do anything negative to them. People do. Sometimes coworkers ...
Through the last several posts, weâve looked at why itâs so important for us to Control What We Can Control, weâve dug into What We Can Control, weâve discussed how Our Attitude and Our Actions play a critical role in all this, and we discussed how You Can Compound Your Results IF you stay consisten...
Through the last several posts, weâve taken a hard look at just how important it is to have candid conversations with our team members when theyâre not keeping it between the ditches rather than ducking the issue and hoping things will get better on their own. While weâve looked at some very specifi...
A little over twenty years ago, a friend of mine was promoted from his role as a machine operator in the department we worked in to supervising that same department on an off shift. In those days, even the night shift crew had a ton of seniority and experience. That company had a much deserved reput...
Over the last decade, Iâve seen dozens of situations where a senior or incredibly skilled team member has chosen not to exceed expectations. The challenge in most of those instances really boiled down to that team member actually choosing to not even meet the expectations the organization (or busine...
Hopefully this comes as good news⌠Iâm still alive! I knew attempting to squeeze in three or four messages last week as Cindy and I prepared for the in-person and socially-distanced LIVE2LEAD:Harrisonburg event last week was going to be a fairly tall order but I wasnât expecting to miss the entire w...
As I shared in the last blog, each decision we make will result in consequences that reach farther than we typically expect. Sometimes those consequences are far worse than we ever imagined, but there are also times where the footprint we leave makes a positive impact on people we may never know!
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On April 23, 1910 in Paris, Teddy Roosevelt gave a speech called Citizenship in a Republic. In full disclosure, Iâve never read or heard the entire thing (but that may no longer be true by the time youâre reading this). However, that speech is where one of my favorite quotes of all time - commonly r...
I closed the last blog by referencing something I heard John Maxwell share recently, âNot investing in your team is short-cutting yourself as a leader,â then I challenged you to think about what tasks youâre still hanging onto that could really be passed on to someone on your team AND would serve to...
