How Can You Create A High Performing Team

The highest indicator of excellent leadership is how well can leaders help create and develop their people into a great team.  If there is too much top down control,  people will not be empowered.  If there is a give direction and walk away style,  performance will suffer due to a Read more

How To Make Excellence A Habit

Small things done repeatedly over time are the keys to producing lasting results.  These habits form the foundation for all personal leadership.  Striving for excellence should be the goal of every leader who wants to make a difference.  This was a great Forbes post: “We are what we repeatedly do. Read more

Why Likable Leaders Seem More Effective

I have valued situational leadership for at least the last 30 years.  In the old days you were put into either a high results or high relationship box and your job would align with that one criteria.  Situational leadership means that you need to shift styles based on the person Read more

Leading With Character

There are three very important C words that are at the core of great leadership today.  They are character, competency and chemistry.  Competency is your ability to do your job well and chemistry is your ability to work well with others.  Character drives everything, because your ability to lead yourself Read more

Three Phases Of Delegation

Delegation is one of the most critical leadership skills for organizational and personal success.  However, it is extremely misunderstood and the training for everyone involved is extremely inadequate.  We tend to micromanage on the one extreme or assign and walk away on the other.  This Forbes post is the best Read more