10 Tips for ‘lifting’ your team on a Monday morning
Monday mornings are a hodgepodge of enthusiasm, anxiety, or dread. Often we feel like a race horse in the starting gate. This Monday, make their duties and agenda your Monday morning passion. The people around you feel the same things you feel. Reach them through their feelings. 10 ways to lift your team on a…
12 Sentences That Prevent Reverse Delegation
Reverse delegation happens when delegated tasks end up back in your bucket. Reverse delegation stalls the trajectory of your career, the growth of your team, and the success of your organization. Why reverse delegation happens: You want to be helpful. Over-helpful leaders end up doing other people’s work for them. You don’t see it. Some employees…
7 Ways a New Manager Can Build Trust
“The glue that holds all relationships together – including the relationship between; the leader and the led is trust, and trust is based on integrity.” Brian Tracy All throughout your career you are building others’ trust in you. You have built trust between you and your co-workers. Your boss trusts you. Other departments trust…
11 Questions to Become a Great Self Aware Leader
Have you reflected on what made you the leader you are today? Have you taken inventory of your experiences; the stories that have shaped you as a leader? Can you articulate your value to your market; your employees? Great leaders are self aware. They have a sound understanding of their abilities and attributes. They know…
9 Habits of Profoundly Influential People
Influential people have a profound impact on everyone they encounter. Yet, they achieve this only because they exert so much influence inside, on themselves. We see only their outside. We see them innovate, speak their mind, and propel themselves forward toward bigger and better things. And, yet, we’re missing the best part. The confidence and…
10 Ways to Engage and Connect With Your Team
Great leaders don’t just manage employees; they make sure employees are motivated, engaged and inspired when coming to work. Overlooking these principles can result in disengagement, loss of valuable employees, increased anxiety and poor decision making, among others. By not engaging with your employees, you could be missing out on key benefits that can contribute…