Now you know the type of team you need, it is time to start recruiting the team’s members. As mentioned, in my experience most team members are ‘voluntold’ to join the team by…
Performance Improvement
My last post described the Why of your team and now we will move to the next conversations, Form. The conversations of Form bring your team into being. This includes designing the type…
I asked a sample of leaders how often the teams they have either led or been a member of have fulfilled their potential. Their answers surprised me. They were pretty consistent, only about…
I have been working with my business partner Jennifer to create a new business. If you’ve been down that road, you know it takes a huge amount of work. As coaches, one of…
A big shift occurred at the end of 2011. In case you weren’t paying attention, 2012 marked the start of a lower rate of US productivity. The chart below shows the trend. You…
“Corporations are victims of the great training robbery”, say Harvard Business School’s Michael Beer and his colleagues in a recent impactful in HBR article. Indeed, I have often experienced this lack of skills…
For many clients, understanding their own stories is the source of most breakthroughs. We all carry limiting stories around with us every day. Once my clients understand them, they can assess how well the stories…
Last weekend I helped mentor about 80 Portland high school students during StartUp Camp 2017. Wow, what an experience! Some of the businesses developed during the two and a half days were very…
Gunner is an English Springer Spaniel, he is our very lovable family dog. During a recent walk with him, I realized my behavior and Gunner’s can be very similar at times. He loves…
I read a thought provoking blog post recently from Alan Weiss. Alan talked about establishing cause and effect relationships in your business. Simply put do you know why you are getting the results…