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While you might not think of Cher as a deep philosophical thinker, I’ll make two comments before I share her brilliant insight. – we can learn from anyone – and the mark of a lifelong learner is having that belief. – we can definitely learn from people who have achieved significant things, even if their achievements [...]
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Do you want to be more creative? Would you like your team to be more creative too? It all starts with one critical factor. It isn’t about techniques or strategies or how Einstein was creative. It isn’t about hiring more creatively gifted people either. The seed of the answer is implied in the title of [...]
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When people are asked to list the most influential people in their lives, several groups tend to rise near the top. After family and close friends, the next most likely categories are teachers and leaders/bosses. I’ve long said that there is a connection between the skills of a great leader and the skills of an [...]
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Every leader has, in a formal setting or not, needed to provide feedback on performance. In workshops around the world I have asked people to give me their best tips for providing effective feedback. To a person, leaders create great lists of techniques and approaches. Yet one thing, perhaps the most powerful piece of advice, [...]
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You’ve likely heard when you deliver feedback it should be balanced. When you have heard that, what people typically are suggesting that you should strive to give people a balance of positive and negative feedback. This advice is only half-right. It’s an understandable misunderstanding because people think there are only two types of feedback, when [...]
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If this title has you scratching your head, wondering if I am suggesting you become an egomaniac, relax! That is the furthest thing from my mind (though I’ll talk about it before I’m through). The truth is, while there are people with super-high self images related to their expertise and knowledge, many more people don’t [...]
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Feedback and advice. In modern organizational life they are related terms. When you look at them grammatically, they are connected, but not as related as I thought before I researched them a bit. From Dictionary.com here are the relevant definitions for each word, and some synonyms too: Feedback: noun – (3) a reaction or response [...]
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In our Bud to Boss Workshops we get asked different versions of this question frequently. Sometimes it is asked in a more politically correct way. Sometimes it is asked as a curiosity. Most times, however, it is asked bluntly, directly and with frustration: “How can I get lazy people to work?” As a coach and [...]
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Being an effective coach is a leadership skill – as you coach successfully you help create the future you are leading people towards. However, being an effective coach is more than leadership – it is an important life skill as well. We all can be more effective at coaching in our communities, in our families, [...]
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On a teleseminar for our future Remarkable Leadership Certified Coaches and Resellers (if that thought intrigues you, let us know and we will tell you about the benefits and when the next session starts) last night I urged them to become collectors of questions. This is an important idea, one that few coaches and leader [...]
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