Reviewing our 2017 blogs from these linked categories of Change, Development, Empowerment and Strategy may foster ideas you can use as you work to align groups you lead or impact. If you need more ideas, contact us!
Change
| Living in the Change Curve | Equip employees & leaders to thrive through the pace of steady change |
| Just a Spoon Full of Sugar | Incorporate fun into bitter change by rewards to early adopters & celebrating incremental success |
| Sharpen Your Focus During Change | Use two filters to survive change and lead others to success |
| If We Do Not Hang Together… | There is great power in teams examining realities and solutions together during times of change |
| Control What you Can Control | Set behavior expectations that create effective results during change |
| Disarm the Mine Field of Merging Established Teams | Navigate the explosive feelings of teams required to create a shared future |
| Ditch the Rose-Colored Glasses | Energize your team when announcing change; reduce the fear and reduce their resistance |
Development
| Motivating Beyond the 90-day Honeymoon | Ensure your new leaders get a good foundation in their first year |
| Does Great Training = Great Results? | Ensure you lead your training efforts to success and not sabotage |
| Statistics: More Than Numbers | Manage the data required to measure the performance of others |
Empowerment
| Face the Ugly Side of Goal Setting | Move goals from a list to execution and profit |
| Let’s Do Teambuilding | Match teambuilding results to the value of the resources you spend |
| Energy-Generating Habits = Profit-Generating Results | Engage hourly habits that fuel effective results in your world. |
| Out of Sight Out of Mind | Intentionally ensure remote employees are effectively engaged and supported |
| Competitors or Comrades | Equip competing teams to work toward meeting systemic priorities |
| Four Conversations for Supervising | Equip yourself: use these 4 distinct conversations to make a difference |
| Why Value Other’s Values? | Spark engagement in others by taking the time to understand their values |
| What’s More Important? | Weigh the business value of priorities and personal preferences |
| Is Your Resume Current? | Engage your employees in their career and build trust by equipping them |
Strategy
| Hire the One that Will Lead to Success | Create effective interview questions |
| Who Ensures Effective Training ROI? | Avoid these damaging gaps that often lower return on training investment |
| Engaging Our Millennials | Use solid leadership skills to engage these mysterious millennials |
| Goal Execution Gets Lost in the Whirlwind | Check in to make sure everyone is still headed in the direction of success |
| No One Works in a Vacuum | Ensure your entire workforce is moving in the same direction |
| So What Did You Expect? | Manage the expectations required to produce results from others |
| Communication: a Lifelong Conservatory | Give structure to your lifetime of communication enrichment |
| What’s Time Management, Anyway? | Share tools as a core strategy: quadrants of urgency & importance |
| Not Another Staff Meeting | Improve staff meeting attitudes; build a foundation of engagement |
| Political Tension Seeping into Work Walls | Address extreme behavior driven by personal stuff |
| Good Cultures Attract Good Employees | Strength your culture of trust; grow business results and employee careers |
| Re-frame your Networking Strategy | Make your networking count by building trust instead of selling yourself |
| Competing Teams Drain Energy and Profit | Check the mirror for causes of conflicts and competition |
| Be Trustworthy and Brave | Manage the trust required to influence the performance of others |
| Thanks! | Show gratitude in ways that create unified results |
