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How Leaders Guide People Through Good Change
Good change still changes things. Leaders often know how to respond when change comes from crisis. A major problem appears, pressure rises, and everyone understands that something needs to shift. Positive change can be harder to recognize because it often looks like...
Leaving a Piece of My Heart in Tennessee
Last weekend, Erica and I dropped Parker off at college in Tennessee. I knew the day was coming. We had talked about it, planned for it, packed for it, prayed over it, and watched it get closer on the calendar. I understood, in theory, that our oldest child was going...
Culture Champions vs. Culture Killers | Video
How to Measure the Culture Your Team Is Actually Experiencing
If culture is what people do every day, leaders need to know how their people are experiencing the culture right now. Our Reverse Evaluations help you see that. Direct reports confidentially assess their manager’s leadership effectiveness, giving leaders honest...
How Leaders Build a Culture People Can Actually Live
Culture is easy to talk about and much harder to live. Most organizations have values. They put them on websites, office walls, employee handbooks, onboarding documents, and leadership retreat slides. Some lists are thoughtful. Some are inspiring. Some sound like...
Goodlets Help People
In the Goodlet family, we have a simple family mission statement. “We are Goodlets. This means we help people, we have fun, and we honor God.” That is it. Nothing fancy. No laminated poster. No twelve-point strategic plan. Just a simple sentence we tried to repeat...
Providing Assistance Without Creating Resistance | Video
Turn Leadership Problems Into Measurable Improvement
If leadership problems are solvable, the first step is identifying which skills need attention. Our Reverse Evaluations help you do that. Direct reports confidentially assess their manager’s leadership effectiveness, giving strong leaders useful confirmation and...
How Leaders Turn Problems Into Opportunities
Every leader deals with problems. Projects stall. Communication breaks down. Good people miss expectations. Customers get frustrated. Teams lose momentum. Processes that worked last year start creating confusion this year. The strongest leaders do something useful...
My Orange Belt Era
Several years ago, my son Mason decided he wanted to take karate lessons. His instructor was Sensei Doug, which sounds very official and slightly intimidating. I should also mention that his American name was just Doug. At first, I had a very specific role in this...