Even if your organization doesn’t offer leadership development you can still work on your own identity and elevate your own capabilities. In this Linked In Live I’ll share some of the steps you can use to start crafting a new future leadership identity. Here’s...
The identity shift from peer to leader is difficult especially without preparation. The first conflict is internal: The way you see yourself. In this LinkedIn Live we’ll talk about how identity influences leadership behavior illustrating the effects of three...
Every organization has elephants — a known problem or situation viewed as undiscussable. The elephant in the room is difficult to address for various reasons, including power structures and cultural issues. To put it into context; employees don’t speak up...
No matter what the business problem, whether it’s turnover, incivility, low patient scores or managers who don’t know how to give direction, all problems have one root in common: The lack of clarity. Let me make a couple of distinctions about clarity: Clarity and...
If you want to save at least three hours per week, stop engaging in unproductive conversations. There are as many varieties of these conversations as there are people who engage in them. Think of petty arguments, gossip, verbal ping pong, and other forms of...
A good friend recently reminded me of the old Peter Drucker quote, “culture eats strategy for breakfast”. It’s a questionable phrase, in both meaning and interpretation, and questionable that Drucker even said it (it was attributed to him in 2006 by Ford’s CEO, Mark...
