Category: Leadership
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5 Ways to Engage Quiet Staff in Meetings
I was recently asked how a leader could get quiet team members to speak up more in meetings. The truth is, change doesn’t begin with the quiet team members, but with you.The secret to encouraging engagement and participation rests with you and your skillfulness in 5 specific areas.
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3 Steps to Creating Accountability
When you are ready to accelerate employee engagement and genuine accountability, there are three steps that you can integrate into your management style. Once you integrate and master these steps, you will be cultivating a workplace culture accountability.
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7 Questions That Will Change How You Manage People
When you are able to ask great questions, people become motivated, connected and empowered by the sharing of their ideas and knowledge. When your staff comes to you needing help, instead of simply providing answers, I have 7 questions you can ask which will foster critical thinking and proactive problem solving.
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How Not to Suck at Communication
When your amygdala senses that any of those things are risk, it activates the most primitive parts of your brain to react with fight or flight. Even when the most evolved and empowering next step would be to seek understanding. If you want to not suck at difficult communication, the solution is to develop a…
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Answering Unanswerable Questions
Why unanswerable questions are so challenging for managers of people and businesses, and the solution for answering those questions.
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Building a Boat While It’s Sailing Down the River
One of the most pressing challenges that I am hearing about involves employees being resistant to necessary changes. Especially from employees who are not normally resistant. Let’s talk about how you can speak your truth about staff’s disruptive behavior with empathy, compassion, with a focus on the good of the whole.
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Holding Space is a Critical Manager Skill
Holding space is one of the most important skills for managers who want to develop the skillfulness of their staff. It is nuanced, requires practice, and also requires a significant level of self-awareness.
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6 Strategies for Creating A Culture of Communication
Giving employees an opportunity to have their voice heard, especially when the dialogue is challenging, is critically important for retention. When employees feel heard, building a culture of trust is easier.When employees feel they have no voice, they are more likely to say nothing, then resign or miss work. Both of these consequences have significant…
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5 Qualities of a Successful Generalist
There’s a popular theory that success requires individuals to become experts in a specific niche. The truth is that with the complexity of the challenges facing organizations and the advancement of artificial intelligence and automation, the way to stay relevant and valuable is to be a curious learner and develop knowledge in a range of…
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7 Ways Managers Can Activate Problem Solving in Others
To successfully manage people, you must actually know some really great questions. When you are able to ask great questions, people become motivated and empowered by sharing their ideas and knowledge. Here are 7 ways you can activate problem solving in others right now.