Your team already knows what it feels like to work for you. They’ve known for a while. They know whether you’re someone they can bring a bad day to, and they know whether your standards are real or just things you say in meetings. The only person who may not know is you. Culture is […]
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Nov
Nov
Accountability does not fail because people are lazy. It fails because nobody built a system for it. I coached basketball for a long time before I ever stood in front of a corporate audience. And for too many of those seasons, I thought accountability was my job. I set the standard. I watched for […]
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Oct
Oct
What Does the Team Need? In a tough or emotional moment, the first thing you feel like saying to your team is rarely what your team needs to hear. Let me back that idea up with the best halftime speech I never gave. The Halftime Speech I Almost Gave We were playing one of […]
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Oct
Oct
Most speakers, if you ask them what transformation their audiences experience, will give you a list of topics they cover. That’s not transformation. That’s a table of contents. And here’s the uncomfortable reality for anyone who books speakers for a living: most of the people who walked into your last conference feeling disconnected, disengaged, or […]
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Oct
Oct
Stop Searching for a Team Building Facilitator Near Me Proximity is the worst reason to hire a team building facilitator. I understand why people search that way. You have a date on the calendar, a budget that has to get spent, and a room full of people who are not working together as well as […]
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Sep
Sep
Why Your Most Productive Team May Also Be Your Least Connected AI can write the email, but it cannot build the trust that makes a team fight for each other when the project goes sideways. That sentence matters more this year than it did last year. Every team I work with now generates infinite output. […]
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Sep
Sep
Culture is the sum of the behaviors a group allows and repeats. Not the attitudes it holds. Not the mission statement on the wall. So, if you want to change a culture, stop asking how do we get people to believe something new. Start asking how do we get an entire team to actually do […]
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Aug
Aug
The reason your people check every channel constantly – and get confused with who shared what and where – is not that they are distracted. It is that you have not defined the expectations for each channel they use. Think about what that costs. If a message could arrive by email, or chat, or text, […]
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Aug
Aug
If you are searching for the best leadership checklist for managers, the honest answer is that there is no single winner. There are four recognized checklists worth knowing, and they were built for four different jobs. So the real question is not which one is smartest. It is which one solves your problem. And for […]
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Aug
Aug
The fix for bad leadership is not a bigger brain. It is a shorter list. A surgeon and a Wharton professor arrived at the same answer from two completely different worlds, and once you see it, you cannot unsee it. It has nothing to do with charisma, and everything to do with what you actually […]