


Why New Leaders Must Not Let Their Predecessors Distract Them
Pay attention. It’s an essential choice for an executive onboarding into a new role – what you and others pay attention to. Focusing on your predecessor’s mistakes is a distraction from your call to action and is especially painful for your predecessor’s supporters....
Why Letting Others Win Arguments Is So Empowering
Letting others win arguments is empowering because it positively reinforces what you’ve asked them to do. It all goes back to the ABC’s of behavior modification – Antecedent, Behavior, Consequence. It’s easy to tell people you want to hear their perspective...
Why Leading With Positives Improves 360-Degree Feedback
Everyone on the planet likes to feel respected and appreciated. Everyone on the planet will pay more attention to those whose opinions they value. If you lead with positives, you put people in a better frame of mind to hear your constructive criticism. If you lead...
Why Empowering Delegation And Powerful Communication Are Inseparable
Most organizational communication issues are born of unclear decision rights. The clearer you can be about who is providing input to be considered and who is making decisions/providing direction to be followed, the less communication issues you’ll have. True story. A...