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Do Leaders and Employees Want the Same Things?

It is a good question: Do leaders and employees want the same things in work and in the workplace? Looking at today’s hot workplace topics like “return to office,” where people work, and more, many would answer no. Current divisions indicate that leaders and employees want different things. I think it is a valuable question.

What Leaders Can Do to Address Productivity Theater

If you haven’t yet heard the term “productivity theater,” this won’t be the last time. And even if you haven’t, you will likely recognize the behavior. My coauthor, Wayne Turmel, defines it as “engaging in behaviors that aren’t terribly productive but give the appearance of working hard.” And one survey says 83% of employees have

Building Competitive Advantage by Improving Questioning Skills

Last week, I gave you nine ways organizations benefit when their leaders improve their questioning skills. Once you see those benefits, the next logical question is: How do we help leaders build those skills? In some ways, the answer to this question would be the same as building any other skill for your leaders,

From Answering to Asking: The Organizational Benefits of Embracing Questions as a Leader

For generations, we have quantified the value or effectiveness of leaders by the answers they provide. We expect leaders to have answers, and we promote people to leadership roles because they have good answers. While answers are important, perhaps more important is the ability of leaders to embrace questions. After all, we can’t get to

Creating Learning Lookbacks

Projects are likely a part of your working life. And for many, more of their work is project based than ever before. If this is true for you, then finding ways to improve your ability to deliver projects is one of the best things you could be doing. I have a way to make those

Hire Attitude, Train Skills

In any job market, interviewing to fill a job can be hard. We want the right person, but the urgency to get the job filled sometimes gets in the way. Our sense of urgency tends to push us to find a person who seems to have the right skills and hope the fit works out.

Creating Excellence Through Improved Performance

Excellence is one of those words that describes a goal to which many would strive. Yet the idea of excellence is both aspirational and vague or nebulous. If creating excellence is your goal for yourself, your team, or your organization (and I am sure on some level it is), how do you do it? Here

Do Your Leaders Possess This Superpower?

Superheroes in the world of cartoons, graphic novels, and movies are seemingly normal people who have superpowers that typically help them make the world a better place. What if we could equip our leaders with a superpower that would help them make their teams more effective work better? Let’s stay in the realm of possibility

More Than Your Leaders Need Leadership Skills

Leadership is often talked about as a noun – a position, a role, and a responsibility. Because of this, we know that once people have been promoted to leadership roles, they need new skills to be successful. But leadership isn’t only a noun, it is also a verb (those skills you think of are behaviors

(At Least) Five Ways to Improve Organizational Communication

Last week, I wrote about how to assess the effectiveness of your organizational communication, but I didn’t talk about how to improve it. This week, I take that next step. If you would like to improve organizational communication (and I’m guessing, you do) – here are five places to start. Have a clearer message No

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