Pick a Focus: A leadership topic, idea, or concept that you want to focus on for the week. If you’re at a loss for where to start, here is an article listing “101 Best Leadership Skills, Traits, and Qualities” to use as an idea generator! Learn & Practice: Spend 5 to 10 minutes a day …
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When you’re starting something new, it can be daunting, right? You’re busy surviving day to day tasks, juggling priorities, and reacting to the immediate business needs. These day to day obstacles aren’t necessarily what’s going to get you to achieve greater success. In a quest to continue to grow as a leader, what recent challenge …
A great leader learns every day. Each experience comes with a lesson. How to learn from these lessons helps you grow to make better decisions or avoid a future mistake. The Society of Human Resource Management released The Skills Gap 2019 showing alarmingly high statistics in multiple skills that employees are missing in the workplace …
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How do you communicate with your employees, peers, bosses, and customers? What words, expressions, and nonverbal cues do you use? How do they communicate in return? Low-Context and High Context communication is widely used to explain cultural differences when conducting international business. Carol Goman explains in detail How Culture Controls Communication differs among countries. I …
The New Year is always a good time to reflect on the past before charging into the future. In business, anytime that you start feeling yourself getting stuck in the day to day crisis, week after week, then it’s time to step aside, reevaluate, and adjust for a successful overall strategy. As a leader in …
Reflect and Evaluate Day to Day Tactics to Overall Strategy Read More »
A change process is guaranteed to have varying levels of resistance. To break up the routine, reduce fear, and challenge the status quo, a leader is most successful when focusing on transforming the employee’s change experience. Many organizations approach to change result in negative experiences and slow implementation. Business changes faster than ever before. The …
Businesses in today’s age are complicated and interwoven with multiple challenges yet, success lies in the simple application of The Business Equation: People + Processes = Performance. The right people with the right processes achieve the right performance. One imbalance within the equation with either the wrong people or wrong processes will produce poorer performance than …
I often get asked what it was like to attend the Naval Academy. My initial response, “Well, it definitely wasn’t a typical college experience.” We “chopped” down the hallways as freshmen, wore civilian clothes on liberty our sophomore year, got to drive as Juniors, and got to park our car on The Yard (Academy grounds) …
