Category: Leadership

You might have heard of “scouting the rapids” for whitewater rafting, but what does it mean for your business? Several years ago, while on a family vacation to Colorado, my

Have you sometimes felt that you have too many priorities? No matter where you look, there is something you have to do, by a certain time or date. Whether I

There are many tools a leader needs and also qualities it is important for them to have. These needs and qualities are crucial so they can help their team achieve

Do you catch yourself making preemptive assumptions and expectations about people? We probably all do it at some point. We hold expectations for people in our lives that could be

“If the team is under performing, isn’t it always a leadership issue?” This is the question I was asked recently at a networking event. I had just told the person

Every organization, every team, needs (and wants) great leaders.   Leadership isn’t just for executive, C-suite positions. Leadership must occur at every level of an organization. It is the responsibility

Finish this sentence for me:   “The most important role of a leader is ____________________________.”   How did you fill in the blank?   Recently I worked with a group

The final piece of the Five Behaviors™ pyramid is Results. When teams are able to trust each other, engage in healthy conflict, gain commitment, and consistently hold one another accountable,

In the last post we talked about an important skill leaders need to build high-performing teams: facilitating conflict resolution. If you haven’t already read the previous post, take a moment

Within a team, there is bound to be conflict.   There are a lot of varying needs, objectives, interests, skills and priorities that can easily cause conflict or disagreement.