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Help Your Leaders Give the Right Kind of Help
One of the hardest leadership skills is knowing what someone actually needs from you. Sometimes they need a decision. Sometimes they need coaching. Sometimes they need you to listen well enough to help them solve the problem themselves. That is exactly the kind of...
How Leaders Make Sure Their Help Is Actually Helpful
Leaders are often rewarded for being helpful. Someone brings a problem, and the natural instinct is to step in, offer advice, make a decision, or start fixing whatever appears to be wrong. Experience can make that instinct even stronger because experienced leaders...
I Mowed the Wrong Lawn. Twice.
Years ago, my friend John joined the military and was unexpectedly deployed overseas. He and his wife, Heather, had recently purchased a home; they had a newborn, and Heather suddenly had a lot to manage on her own. One Sunday at church, I asked Heather if there was...
Five Ways to Become a Likable Leader Within Five Minutes | Video
Measure How Your Leaders Handle Change
Change can reveal leadership strengths and opportunities. When teams go through growth, transition, promotion, restructuring, or a new season of responsibility, people experience their leaders more clearly. They notice communication, steadiness, follow through,...
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...