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Enhancing Your Employee’s Life-Cycle Experience To Achieve Peak Performance

In today’s tight labor market with historic levels of low unemployment throughout the U.S., it is imperative for businesses to hire the best people – and keep them! But how do you do that when so few people are looking

Posted in business, Change management, Coaching, Empowerment, Engagement, Executive Coaching, Family Business, Family Values, Leadership, Management, success Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , ,

What To Do about Millennial Mania

Let’s be clear. This article is not about what’s wrong with Millennials, how we can get rid of them, or even how we can change them. I’ve stayed out of the Millennial fray for years now because I don’t think

Posted in Coaching, Executive Coaching, Innovation, Leadership, Management, Managing Performance, Milennials, success, Succession Planning Tagged with: , , , , , , , , , , ,

The Pros & Cons of Virtual Teaming – Part I: The Cons

Do you have a virtual team that isn’t quite clicking? Maybe you’re getting through the basics, but it seems much more mechanical and “out of sight” regularly turns into “out of mind” for your team. I remember when I first

Posted in Best Practices, Communication, Executive Sponsorship, Face-to-Face, Follow-the-Moon, Follow-the-Sun, In-person, Management, Management Support, Project Managers, Videoconference, Virtual Leadership, Virtual Meeting Facilitators, Virtual Teaming, Virtual Teams, Virtual Teamwork, Virtual Workplace

Focusing on the How in Succession Management, Not the Who!

I support a lot of individual business leaders and owners who are quickly turning their attention to their “third acts” in life. In every one of these situations – whether it’s the third-generation business leader maintaining the family’s traditions for

Posted in Leadership, Leadership Development, Management, Next-Generation Leader, Retirement, success, Succession, Succession Management, Succession Planning, Transition

Tell Them Once and Never Have to Tell Them Again!

I am fortunate to have an uber-perfectionist named Jessica by my side. She is incredibly responsible, completely reliable, and in general just a wonderful person to work with. At times, I forget that Jessica strives for perfection in all that

Posted in Communication, Delegation, Direction, employee engagement, Intentions, Leadership, Management, Motivation, success, Vistage

Worrying About Today’s Problems Is Not My Problem!

I was recently sitting in a Vistage Chief Executive forum when one of my best friends and professional role models shared this revolutionary idea with our group. Today’s operational issues are someone else’s problem. According to him, if as a

Posted in CEO, Entrepreneur, Future, Job Duties, Leadership, Management, Organizational Performance, Past, Planning, Present, Problem-Solving, Visioning, Vistage

How to Ensure Out of Sight Doesn’t Become Out of Mind

Do you manage a virtual team? Are some – if not many – of your team members based in other sites around the city if not around the country or even around the world? Virtual leadership may not be hard

Posted in Communications, Leadership, Management, Remote Leadership, Remote Management, Remote Workers, Virtual Leadership, Virtual Teaming, Virtual Teams

3 Simple Questions and the Most Impactful Management Tool You’ll Ever See!

One of the simplest and most impactful management tools I’ve ever seen is the Stop-Start-Continue framework. It’s so powerful and easy to use that I’ve used it quite successfully in my own business as well as with all of my

Posted in Business Practice, Deliberation, Direct Reports, Leadership, Management, Management Tool, One-to-One, Performance, Planning, Reflection, Stop-Start-Continue

How Many Leadership Coaches does it take to Change a Light Bulb?

None of course! A good leadership coach would never actually change the light bulb for his/her client. That could be the role for your management consultant or other trusted business advisors. A good leadership coach, though, would instead offer fresh

Posted in Executive Coaching, Leadership, Leadership Coaching, Management, Management Consulting

Even Pit Bulls Want to be Bossed Around Some of the Time

This year, I adopted two dogs from K9 PALS a fabulous “no kill” shelter in Santa Barbara, California that rescues dogs and gives them a warm and welcoming home until they find more permanent placement with a family. In many

Posted in Bosses, Delegation, Direction, Dog, Expectation Setting, Leadership, Management, Managing Performance, Pit Bull

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