Category Archive: Leading

How Powerful Feedback Really Works

Feedback is often code for criticism.

Feedback focuses the past. You see what you did. Advice is about the future. You see what you could do.

Years ago, I received feedback that I still use today.

Everyone who pursues excellence craves feedback.

3 Insightful Questions You Can Ask Today

The wrong question makes you look slow witted. Insightful questions ignite engagement.

5 Simple Ways to Change Your Life

Change is hard because we make it hard.

Change your life by rejecting things that make change hard.

Impatience makes change frustrating.

Change your words. Change your life.

Change a routine. Change your life.

Change your friends. Change your life.

How to Enable People to Step Up

One leader said, “I realized my supervisors weren’t supervising because I was doing it for them.

Don’t handicap people.

Be the reason people step up.

Notice the Things You Notice

The things you notice reflect who you are.

Competitive people notice rivals.

What you see impacts who you become.

Attention determines direction.

How to get a grip on noticing…

5 Essentials for Healthy Conflict

Conflict is inevitable. Healthy conflict is rare.

Healthy conflict brings people together. All conflict needs a positive purpose.

Ask yourself, “What are we fighting for?”