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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

How Clear is Your Organizational Communication?

Having worked with and interacted with leaders and team members from over fifty countries, there are certain issues and conversations that are predictable because they are so prevalent. For all the differences in culture, industry, size, and situation, most everyone says they wish organizational communication was … better. That is understandable because it is hard.

Setting Organizational Expectations

One of the most important things a leader can do is set clear expectations for the team and individual team members. Most will agree with this statement, even though not everyone is very good at doing it. But there is another level of expectations that is equally important and even more often overlooked – organizational

Have We Learned Any Organizational Lessons from the Lockdowns?

It has been three years since the world and the world of work were changed by a virus. COVID-19 was spreading and people were staying at or were sent home. For many, because of the lockdowns, work changed forever. Even for organizations where most (or all) employees stayed in the workplace, the context of work

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