A team becomes demoralized when courage, confidence, or hope erodes. This can happen for many reasons including a significant loss, a failure, an overly optimistic goal or even exhaustion and... read more →
Have you ever been part of a dysfunctional team? What did that feel like? Dysfunction can happen within any group of people and impacts productivity and performance. It saps the... read more →
Storming, norming and performing follow the forming stage of team development. They are the stages a team moves through to reach high performance. Storming - conflict often happens in this... read more →
Are you familiar with Tuckman’s classic theory of group development? In 1965, psychologist Bruce Tuckman defined “forming, storming, norming and performing” as the stages a group follows in order to... read more →
Is your annual goal setting spectacularly successful? Do SMART goals work for you and your team? Or is it possible that your SMART goals actually lessen ambition (people set goals... read more →
Questions are powerful because they create change. Giving people facts and information is helpful, but questions create transformation, inspire innovation and result in true change. Questions are powerful because they... read more →
One of the challenges of leadership is that from your vantage point you are always looking out to the horizon. We had several coaching conversations with senior leaders this week... read more →
Last night we tried to sit outside for dinner in LA, and the smoke in the air was so uncomfortable that we had to move inside. (We are here working... read more →
When you hear the word 'selling', what do you think? Is it offensive or invigorating? A necessary evil or a noble profession? And what does leadership have to do with... read more →
The world is hungry for heroes, leaders who are not just great, but also good. Create a leadership manifesto to make it clear how you will be great and do... read more →
