We often experience conflict between personal and professional goals. Yet, most of us value family, health, community, and leisure, as well as our careers. Following are some ideas on how we can create strategic harmony and integration with these various life goals, based on new research reported in … Continue reading about Create Harmony for Your Goals
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The Power of Goals
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Strategy
Navigating Backlash to Your Change Effort
Resistance to change is inevitable, and not always bad. When many leaders face backlash to change, their instinct is to push right back. A … Continue reading about Navigating Backlash to Your Change Effort
Align Your Strategy and Budget
What do you expect from your new strategy? Did you go through all of that strategic planning effort to decide to keep doing the same things? … Continue reading about Align Your Strategy and Budget
Leadership
Improve Your Delegation
Before delegating any task, ask yourself: "Am I the best and cheapest person to get this done?". If the answer is no, hand it off. Your role as a leader is primarily context-setting—explaining why the work needs … Continue reading about Improve Your Delegation
Build Your Team’s Trust
As a leader, one of the most important things you can do is to build trust with your team and among your team members. Teams without trust have interpersonal tension and frustration, are less motivated, play … Continue reading about Build Your Team’s Trust
Teamwork
Dialogue in the Workplace
In the public square, we don’t see much dialogue these days. It seems like it is mostly people yelling at one another. In the business-organization world, we can’t waste time yelling at one another. The … Continue reading about Dialogue in the Workplace
Improve Your Team Emotional Intelligence
The importance of improving our individual Emotional Intelligence has gained a lot of momentum in recent years. However, it is also important to improve the Emotional Intelligence of our teams! Most leaders … Continue reading about Improve Your Team Emotional Intelligence