As a leader, listening is one of the most important skills you can learn. I always promote your need to listen to your people! Employees are the eyes and ears of your business. Listening to your people for what needs to change, how to change, and even what’s wrong with change, can save you time and wasted effort. Nevertheless, today I want to change the focus from your people to you. Continue reading »
Sometime in the 1500s, an English poet named Robert Herrick used the phrase “no pain, no gain” in his writings. He was conveying the idea that if you don’t work really hard at something, you won’t benefit from it. A good, noble phrase from a well-respected poet of his day.
But does it still apply today? Continue reading »
Today’s competitive and global business environment requires multi-faceted leaders who can apply new strategies to introduce change, energize business, encourage innovation, and sustain competitive advantage.
In today’s environment, you can’t leave your leadership development to chance, or to other’s initiative. Continue reading »
Today’s competitive and global business environment requires multi-faceted leaders who can apply new strategies to introduce change, energize business, encourage innovation, and sustain competitive advantage.
In today’s environment, you can’t leave your leadership development to chance, or to other’s initiative. Continue reading »
I just came back from a very energizing, cutting edge Organizational Development Network Conference. Given that its theme was Change is coming. . . Its time to lead the way, there were many great presentations and workshops having to do with change.
There were lots of good nuggets of shared knowledge. Continue reading »
In the last two blog posts about understanding conflict, we reviewed definitions, positive and negative effects of conflict, misconceptions, and how your emotional brain processes conflict. Today we are going to explore assumptions, what we think about conflict. Our pattern of thoughts can not only help the process of conflict resolution, but also influence our feelings about it. And yes, you CAN decide how you are going to think. Continue reading »
If we could separate the logical aspects of conflict from emotions, it would be a lot easier to deal with. But the fact is that Neuroscientists now recognize that the human response to conflict is more emotional than rational. Continue reading »
