Category: Team & Culture
How To Handle Direct Reports That Wanted Your New Job
Draw a line in the sand at eight weeks for people that wanted your job and didn’t get it. Cross that line at your own peril.
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How Best To Onboard Into Different Types Of COO Roles
Not all Chief Operating Roles are the same. There are dramatic differences between different roles with the same title, requiring different approaches to onboarding for you to be successful.
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Five Ways to Increase Creativity and Innovation in Workshops and Meetings
The best meeting and workshop facilitators think of themselves as orchestra conductors. They know that all the music comes from the participants and none from them as conductors.
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The One Thing You Must Do On Your First Day As An Executive Onboarding Into A New Job
Be intentional about the message you send with your words, with your actions, with the order of your actions, with the signs and symbols you deploy.
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How To Leverage ‘Yes And…’ As The Gold Standard For Influencing
The fundamental premise is that responses that begin with “Yes” are more encouraging than either “No,” “Yes and” encourages making best current thinking even better.
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How To Move From Win-Lose To Collaborative Leadership
Look for win-win opportunities. That’s the key to collaborative leadership. The relationship has to be good for all over time.
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How To Dance The Board Two-Step To Increase Your Board Of Directors’ Leverage
Ken Chenault's approach to board management + Bryan Smith's approach to persuasion = the board two-step.
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Which Is Not Like The Other? Andy Grove/Intel, Coca-Cola, or Theresa May/Brexit?
Recognize a major change with an enduring impact for what it is and hit a restart button early and decisively.
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