There Are All Kinds Of Feedback Benefits. What does feedback do for us? It opens up conversation and shuts down closed off areas between us and our people, between us and our customers and between us and valuable data. Feedback helps cut down our blind spots. No leader likes to be blindsided, right? It also helps us develop more of our potential/ We can only improve on that which we know. Once something is known and discovered, then it can be dealt with, as long as it lays un

I give a seminar on a regular basis called “The Road To Mastery”. This seminar is designed to scratch the surface and open our methodology for helping develop peak performers. In the training, I talk about the convergence of three areas on the road to mastery, those being your behavior, your motivators and your competencies. Today, I want to draw a parallel between those three converging areas with three others. Your hands Your head Your heart Most times, all of us go to work

It’s hard to believe the end of the year is here and the Christmas season is already behind us. It’s been an annual ritual for me the last several years to take the week between Christmas and New Years and get serious about what I want to accomplish in the coming year. It’s something I look forward to annually. Over these years, I’ve continually developed my process, adding some things and taking some things away. This year, I decided to publish 10 of the most thought-provoki

Today, everything is moving faster than ever. Henry Emerson Fosdick said “The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can’t be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.” Maintaining balance in the “world on my hip technology” environment we live in today can be pretty difficult. Everything in life seems to be going 4 times faster than ever, plus 8 times the responsibilities, 10 times the options, 20 times the problems and only half the budget. Whe

Christmas time is here this weekend and as always, there will be a lot of cheer and gift giving all around. As we’ve all heard, it is more of a blessing to give than to receive. What if we can do both? In other words, as leaders, what can we give ourselves this Christmas season that would be truly a blessing? After all, when we get better, everything around us gets better. Our businesses get better when we get better. Our families get better when we get better. Our communitie

Having a new employee trained by an old employee is dangerous ground. #Leadership #TeamBuilding #Training

Over the years I’ve learned a large part of being a leader requires the reproduction of other leaders. Which team do you think can accomplish more? Team A is comprised of a genius leader with several helper-followers. Team B is made up of an accomplished leader who is developing other leaders on the team? Which one? Team B is the correct answer. Team A kicks up a lot of dust and seemingly through a lot of activity has the appearance of making a lot happen, they seem very effi