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Leveraging Learning Cycles to Nurture Leadership
When a sports team enters a game week, coaches prep their players with opponents’ game films, offensive/defensive strategies, and practice. The team competes against the other team, and after the game, they evaluate the win or loss by watching their performance on film. A military unit participates in the same intentional cycle. Officers brief the [...]
Managers Move Metrics
It’s hard to deny that managers play an important role in any organization. But, actually proving it? Well, that’s another story! Getting a handle on those pesky metrics to create a strong case for why managers make a difference is something that not many organizations have the foresight to capture. Our client, Petco, was really [...]
A Leader’s Role in Creating a Safe Haven
Few opportunities for building trust are as profound as a leader’s role in creating a “safe haven” for difficult conversations, decisions, and strategy execution – an environment where people feel it is safe to say what they really think and what they think is best for their organization. Members of a team often define a [...]
Do Your Employees Love You?
Forty-five years ago, the Beatles told us that “Money Can’t Buy You Love.” But I work with leaders of global companies every day who are trying their best to get their employees to “love them,” and in many cases they are trying to buy that love. They may use different terms in place of “love,” [...]