If you’re a leader, you’re in the change business. And if you’re in the change business, you have to think about how you help people make the choice to change. If you want people to change, you need to be more influential. And so since leadership is an influence activity, we should work on getting […]
Failing to Plan is…
You’ve heard it said that failing to plan is planning to fail. You have also likely had times when you didn’t plan or didn’t do it well enough. While we all agree with that wisdom of planning, we don’t always implement a planning process that improves our success rate. While planning (especially for big projects) […]
Planning Now to Reach the Goals You Set
Most organizations set goals. And the teams in those organizations either set theirs or are handed them based on those organizational goals. While we could have a conversation about how effectively they are set, the biggest problem isn’t in the setting process. It is in having a plan for achieving goals once they are set. […]
Is Easy the Right Goal? – Remarkable TV
A life of ease. Leaning back on your couch, enjoying a favorite activity, working to learn something so it becomes easy for you to live in your comfort zone. This all sounds so very good. And yet, is that goal the goal that serves us best: to just get to where it all becomes easy? […]
Leadership By the Letters
Here are a few things we know about leadership – it is important, but it is also complex and confusing. When you put those things together, sometimes we make it even more complex – which doesn’t help us. So, let’s step back and clarify what leadership requires as a starting point by creating an acrostic, […]