The Role of the Leader

What is leadership? What is the role of the leader and how do you know if you are a good leader? Good leadership is not “one size fits all,” and every situation may call for a specific style of leadership. An Effective Leader Should… As well as providing direction, inspiration, and guidance, good leaders exhibit […]

Managing Personalities with DiSC

Every workplace is made up of various and distinct personalities. A good leader recognizes the differences in each employee and doesn’t take a “one-size-fits-all” approach to management. Management would be easy if everyone was hard-working, collaborative, and always had a great attitude. If this were the case, your job would consist of watching a team […]

What To Do: Employee Underperformance

Every manager at some point in their career will have to learn to deal with employee underperformance issues. If your staff isn’t performing at their best, it can decrease morale and your business’s ability to meet its’ objectives. It is both important and fair for leadership and the underperforming employee to find a solution to […]

Listen Up – Listening Habits of Effective Leaders

Effective leaders with effective communication is key to the success of any business. Leaders must be able to accurately decipher and communicate their missions, objectives, and visions for their company to their managers, and those managers to their employees. However, no matter how precisely these things are communicated, it is possible that ineffective listening on […]

7 Tips to Improve Your Nonverbal Communication Skills

“Actions speak louder than words.” We’ve all heard this phrase, and when it comes to face-to-face communication, this adage holds true. Research shows that approximately 80-90 percent of the meaning of a message lies not in the words said, but what has been conveyed during a conversation through nonverbal communication. All face-to-face communication consists of […]

Coaching – Best Behaviors

Leadership coaching is the process of developing people’s skills and abilities to inspire growth within the members of an organization. Oftentimes managers find themselves needing balance between managing people and creating an environment where team members can grow and flourish. In every organization there will be areas for improvement. A good leader will have the […]

DiSC and Conflict: Part 1

Conflict in the workplace is a normal occurrence. It is the expression of that conflict which determines whether it is constructive or destructive. In The Root of Conflict, Part 1 we discuss the main causes of workplace conflict; poor communication, differences in personalities, different values, and competition. Picture negative conflict as a disease in an organization. Left […]

Leading Your Company Through Change

As previously discussed in The Impact of Change in The Workplace, change can be difficult in the workplace for both employees and managers. While change can bring about positive progress in a company, overcoming the stress, anxiety, and resistance can be a hard summit to climb. A good manager/leader will need tools to help lead their […]

7 Ways Leaders Unknowingly Sabotage Their Own Teams

Leading comes with a myriad of challenges and obstacles. There are numerous reasons for and catalysts of the downfall of a team or group of employees. But what about when the largest factor in a team’s disfunction is the leader themselves? What are ways leaders sabotage their own teams and how do we avoid these […]

Creating a Collaborative Culture in 3 Ways

“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.”- Helen Keller All businesses have the ability to work smarter, not harder and come out better than the sum of their collective members’ intelligence and talent, however, many fall short. A collaborative culture sounds simple at its core. A group of people working together […]