Category Archive: Leadership Development

Painful Experiences: 5 Ways to Gain Advantage

Painful experiences are unavoidable. You might be going through the fire right now.

This post offers 5 ways to gain advantage from painful experiences.

It’s not easy, but you’ve done it before. You can do it again.

What can you add to the list I offer?

5 Unexpected Questions Before Remote Teams Meet in Person

Don’t squander opportunities when remote teams meet in person.

Energizing meetings are rare and hard to pull off.

How can you create vibrant environments and get work done?

Don’t bother traveling if face-to-face is the same as remote – except you’re in the same room.

The Secret of Success Isn’t Good Fortune, Hard Work, or Talent

Typical answers to the secret of success are dissatisfying.

You can’t control good fortune. You can’t order up talent at the talent store. You’re already working hard.

Beyond the big 3, what’s the secret of success from your point of view?

4 Responses to Complaints About Others

You hear more bellyaching when you passively listen to complaints about others.

Complaints about others might be self-serving or spoken from genuine concern.

Today I offer 4 responses when you hear complaints about others.

7 Ways to Enable Boldness

Insecure people are conformists. Doubt produces caution. It’s easy to manage insecure people. Do you really want to enable boldness? Bold people resist being managed. Do you want people solving problems on their… Continue reading

PERMA – 5 Elements to Thrive

Positive psychology isn’t happy talk. Positive psychology concerns itself with things that cause people to flourish. I couldn’t list the 5 elements necessary to thrive during a coaching conversation yesterday (PERMA). I decided… Continue reading