Tweet Sometimes, as the leader, you must address the elephant in the room. If you don’t, you’ll have a hard time leading well moving forward. The elephant is the issue/person/thing…
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Healthy teams allow every idea a chance to live…
The healthiest teams don’t contain an idea killer…
Healthy teams:
Brainstorm
Analyze
Test drive
Push back
Critique
Debate
Challenge
Every idea…
But healthy teams remain open-minded about an idea until it’s proven to be a bad idea…
Knowing that…
Tweet Whether to initiate change or not is a constant leadership challenge all leaders face on a regular basis. Personally, I love continual improvement. I am someone who actually enjoys…
As a leader, or even as a team member, we constantly have to make decisions. Great leaders understand the power of decision-making and learn to use this power wisely.
In simple terms, leaders should consider two methods of decision-making. Some decisions can be arbitrary decisions and others need to be calculated decisions. Knowing which type of decision making to use at a given time will help you be a better leader.
I know leaders who make very quick, instant decisions only to grow to regret them. (This leader being one.)
Here are 7 characteristics of each type decision-making process:
Tweet I’ve seen it so many times. Most likely you have also. Dangerous leadership practices. A leader can be doing everything else right and one flawed practice overshadows and jeopardizes…
Tweet I’ve seen a lot of conflict in my life. From parents and couples in my office for counseling to employment situations where two people can’t get along. I’ve even…
Tweet I have been part of several organizations experiencing either exponential growth or tremendous change. In business and with a few churches, we had times of explosive growth, but 2020…
Tweet The best ideas in an organizational setting often come by getting a group together and throw out random new ideas or ways of doing things. You can usually come…
One of the biggest challenges for any organization is to attract and retain leaders. Yesterday I posted 7 reasons leaders tend to leave an organization. (Read that post HERE.) The goal then is to find ways to keep a leader energized to stay with the team. I never want to stop someone from pursuing a better opportunity, but I don’t want to send them away because I didn’t help them stay.
If your organization expects to grow, you’ll need to attract, develop and retain quality leaders. One of the highest costs an organization has is replacing leaders, so ideally once a leader is hired, you’ll want to keep them. I was reflecting recently on why leaders tend to leave an organization, apart from finding a better opportunity. I never mind losing a leader to an opportunity I can’t match, but I don’t want to lose them because of something I did wrong.