How to best support and grow those you lead using simple inquiry and avoid stealing their monkeys. Next time an employee asks for help, you...
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A Simple Word Switch that Can Help People find Better Solutions
and make a much better coaching question. The use of ‘could’ vs. ‘should’ has vastly different outputs when you are coaching someone. Coaching is...
Add this One Word to Transform your Feedback
Be a more positive and inspiring leader using this one technique When delivering negative feedback, you’ve probably been told to use a feedback...
The Days of the Heroic CEO are over – What do we need instead?
What is needed NOW & how do we transform? Today’s challenges need collaborative teams - and they need them NOW. Companies are facing a new set...
Team Success Secrets: Life, Universe, and Everything Revealed
I've learned from the benefit of time and trial and error that the secret is really quite simple. Possibly it is our beliefs or paradigms that make...
Empowering Teams: Stop Stealing Their Monkeys!
We’ve been talking a lot about monkeys these days, specifically, stealing monkeys, stuffing backpacks, and disempowerment. For some leaders stealing...
Secrets to Leadership & Organizational Success
The what, why, and how to make it happen Let’s first begin with a picture of a great leader, what’s at work here, and the secret ingredient that any...
When Customers Dance – Is it time to reflect?
The email read - “I will give you a call as soon as I stop dancing around the office.... :-)” Now this is a happy customer! It made my Friday and...
Can Self-Assessment Lead to World Peace?
Maybe not world peace, but inch by inch, mile by mile it can be profound in a life, a family, a team, a company, a community, and hopefully the...
Did I just say that?
Was that me who just reacted like that? Some leaders are really feeling the impact of this new virtual way of working, and it is causing them stress...











