We are fully in the 4th quarter of the year. And like you, I am assessing how things are going and what needs to be done in the last 90 days of the year to end the year strong and set myself up for the new year that is coming. It’s a time of completion […]
Flexing Your Leadership Style
In the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program, I teach the module on leadership. We use a styles inventory, which like so many of these tools offers a 2×2 square. These squares reduce all of the aspects of leadership styles can be reduced to four words. Myers Briggs, Disc, Styles at Work, all have 4 […]
Building Positive Relationships
Relationships are challenging at best. Even the most positive relationships have their ups and downs. Everett and I have been tracking and exploring our personal and business relationships. We agree the following are important elements to a successful relationship of any kind with another human being. Making that human-to-human connection in an authentic way. Every […]
Discovering Your Blind Spots
I frequently facilitate planning with organizations and their teams. I help them flush out their blocks and obstacles and assess their environment and internal capacity. And even with that work, blind spots always show up during implementation. Blind spots are issues, behaviors, biases, challenges, operating outside of your awareness. You often can’t see them until […]
Strategic Planning is Planting Seeds
Spring moves us to action. And for organizations, planning is like planting seeds in the spring for summer flowers. We have been fielding lots of requests for strategic planning over the past few months. Then, we realized that organizations postponed their natural planning cycles because of COVID. Since COVID, the world has changed so much. […]
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