When you are managing teams for innovation, everyone focuses on creating better and better solutions. Otherwise, you reinforce stasis, or reliance on whatever worked yesterday. The concept and execution of managing for innovation is a hot topic in my keynotes, workshops and coaching. First, by focusing on innovation you and your team create outcomes which… [Continue Reading]
Are You Managing Teams for Innovation or Stasis?
Are You Professionally Understandable To Everyone?
Being professionally understandable is a huge part of how you show up to work each day. When people do not understand what you are saying, they cannot figure out what you want. Or what you really need. Or even what you both can accomplish working with each other and for each other on behalf of… [Continue Reading]
Is Professional Elitism impacting How You Lead Teams?
Ouch! That’s an in-your-face question to ask yourself, isn’t it? And if you feel defensive, it is understandable. After all, you feel you do all the right things. Following processes and steps outlined in guidelines and playbooks. Yet, projects go unproductively sideways. And team synergy slowly evaporates. In addition, unproductive rework and reduced efficiency remain… [Continue Reading]
3 Ways to Avoid Professional Complacency in 2021
Will you avoid falling into a pattern of professional complacency during 2021? Or do you long for a permanent oasis from ambiguous and uncertain scenarios? When I ask this question to colleagues and clients, like you, the answer is: “a little bit of both, please”. Because the professionals and associations I serve seek consistency and… [Continue Reading]
6 Lessons I Learned From 2020 that I Carry Forward Into 2021
What. A. Year. Something no one can deny, regardless of where you sit around the business table. 2020 threw one tactical and strategic challenge at us after another. And while we still are processing what we learned during 2020, the year keeps up its relentless onslaught. Because we will drag the stuff left unresolved from… [Continue Reading]
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