Quiet Team Leader. Definitely a high point to be featured by Dan McCarthy on his Great Leadership Bog. This post was inspired by a woman who was on my team for five years. Rose is the quintessential quiet leader, who sets the tone, raises the bar and urges others to be better and do…
Category: Leadership & Management
Build Powerful Engaged Teams: Guest Blog on ShiftWorkplace.com
It has been a real pleasure to work with Shift Management on presenting the Managing Annoying People Webinar and writing a guest blog on Powerful Engaged teams. You know I like to say, tend to your PETS (Powerful Engaged Teams) to drive success. Maire Gervais, Ph.D, CEO of Shift Management says: You need employees who can make…
Make Leading a Better Job – My Guest Blog in CEO Magazine!
Every now and then we are asked to do something that scares us. As entrepreneurs, leaders and fearless business mentors, we know we need to do it. That’s how I felt when CEO Magazine asked me to be a guest blogger. And we all know the story — what pushes me, makes me stronger. How…
Webinar Replay of How to Manage Annoying People
In this fast paced webinar – hosted by Shift Management – I provide go to tools for changing the relationship dynamic with annoying members of your team. You will also find some tips on how to deal with others who are annoying you – such as your next door neighbor (just saying). Do you have annoying…
5 Signs Your Team is Annoying You
My guest post in Excellence Essentials, presented by HR.Com, gives you the road map to the 5 key signs that your team is zapping your energy. Day in and day out in my work with executives, teams and random managers, these telltale signs signal that the boss-team relationship is broken: 1- Your Ideas are not…
Why People Pleasers Don’t Make Good Managers
If you constantly say “yes” to your team, you may be a “doormat boss.” This is about your behavior as a boss and not the annoying staff that keep asking you questions. Break through this workplace dynamic and increase your sphere of influence with these three strategies (read the full Fast Company article with my…
CEOs Set the Tempo
Who would think Startrek’s Captian Kirk and Whiplash’s Fletcher (J.K. Simmons, current Academy Award Winner) have anything in common? But they do, more than it would seem. As CEO of the Enterprise and the away team, Kirk always set the pace. He did it through trust, loyalty and instinct. In Whiplash, Band Leader/Teacher (aka State…
Moore Reason
25 year-old NYPD Officer Brian Moore was buried today. Shot in the line of duty to defend and keep the community safe; Moore’s instinct about a concealed gun was correct. All of my thoughts and prayers are with the Moore and the NYPD Family. News reports state there was no time for him to react….
What/If
What do you think? How many times a day do I get asked that question? I will tell you what I think. It’s a good place to start a conversation and get valuable input. Leaders must be aware not to fall down the rabbit hole and get stuck. All too often customers, employees, and CEOs…