Who do you want on your team? What are the qualifications and qualities of the people you want sitting around your leadership table? If you were to make a list of the attributes you would want on the members of your leadership team you would likely include such characteristics as: Go-getter. Someone who ‘makes it…
3 ‘Secret Handshakes’ Leaders Must Eliminate
The secret handshake. For years this covert means of greeting has enabled those on the inside of an organization to privately recognize one another, while ensuring that outsiders were not included. While most teams do not have a literal secret handshake, many have unknowingly adopted practices that are just as secretive, and just as mystifying…
8 ‘Momentum Killers’ Leaders Must Avoid
Leadership is all about generating momentum. Take a static organization or situation and drop an effective leader into the mix and what do you get? Momentum. Where you have momentum, and where you have no momentum, it always points towards leadership. In other words, where you have an effective leader, one of the almost inevitable…
The 4 Questions Leaders Ask to Turn a Failure Into a Learning
“Let’s put this into our learning bucket, and move on.” If you’re a leader you have no doubt uttered this phrase when a project has not achieved its goal. But to truly put a failure into the learning bucket requires more than just a slogan. The reality is, the most effective leaders know that translating…
4 Ways Leaders Test for Trust In Their Team
Trust is the currency of leadership. Without it, you cannot generate Loyalty Alignment Shared vision Consensus Momentum In other words, trust is the “secret sauce” that enables a leader to take a group of people to a new, better destination. So how do you know what level of trust exists between you and your team?…