Become a Reliable Leader with Integrity Leadership is essential to any company’s success. No matter what service you provide or product you sell, your leadership skills are required to help your company do and achieve great things. Fortunately you’ll find many books, courses, and consultants ready to tell you what leadership is all abo... more

Balance Your Leadership and Employee Roles It is essential your leadership role comes first. Team members and the organization are counting on you. If you don’t make the team and your employees a priority, the performance of many can suffer, and thus your ability to deliver great team results is impacted too. Taking the time to prioritize... more

Connecting Goals to Vision Having work that connects to the company’s vision is very meaningful. When we are clear on why our work matters and how it contributes to the company we have a greater sense of purpose and an increase in personal motivation. While sometimes it may be hard to see, everyone in the company has a pur... more

Connecting Team Work to the Strategy While there are a number of common things most employees may want, we must remember that different people are different. Each of us has a slightly unique set of needs that when in place enable us to do our job well and perform at the highest level. There is a great benefit in finding out what eac... more

Align Resources to Strategic Priorities Since the topic of resources can get complicated, it’s helpful to have some guidelines you can follow to help make difficult decisions. Your strategic priorities are this guide. Using team, department or company priorities can help make resource allocation a little easier. Using these priorities ... more

Speaking Your Mind In a team environment there are different dynamics between people as they work together to accomplish both individual and team goals. Sometimes working together is easy, and sometimes it’s not. One factor that significantly impacts a team’s ability to work well together is communication. Being ab... more

Innovation Norms and Expectations "Innovation happens when individuals look at problems in new ways, are willing to take risks, and are creative in how they approach their work. Innovation makes a difference. No matter how big your team may be, or what your team is tasked to deliver, an increase in innovative behaviors will make ... more

Are Your Actions Consistent with Your Values? It’s important our actions and behaviors are consistent with the values we talk about with our team. When we discuss the importance of particular behaviors, yet do something different, we’re really telling the team these values aren’t important. Yet when our actions match our words, we find our t... more

Keep Your Top Talent It just makes sense to spend time focusing on the actions that will cause your top talent to stay. Unfortunately, some leaders can become complacent because everything is so going well, and their top talent is so great. This is easy to do; yet there’s a danger to complacency. While your top talen... more

Increase Employee Innovation Innovation, while critical for the overall organization, must start at the individual level. It is the innovation of individual people that lead the way for improvements. Time and time again we see the innovative ideas of individuals leading the way to create better products, improve customer ser... more

Responding to Issues and Concerns Responding to employee concerns and issues in the right way helps create the type of employee relationships you want—one in which employees feel comfortable sharing problems and important issues. When you respond poorly to situations, relationships can become strained, often causing employees to ... more

Analyze the Pros and Cons of Key Decisions Decision making is a part of life, both in and out of work. No matter who you are or what you do, you’ll be making decisions each and every day. As a leader in an organization, your decision making responsibility only increases. All leaders, no matter where you work, are presented with numerous o... more