(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) Observe all men; thyself most. - Benjamin Franklin The most valuable type of knowledge is self-knowledge. Knowing your tendencies, preferences, values, personal limits, natural gifts and weaknesses helps you make the right commitments and keep them. Aside from personal introspection, a good way…
"When all is said and done, more is said than done." – Aesop, Greek storyteller and author, Aesop’s Fables Reliable people have a high say/do ratio. That’s the ratio of things you say you will do to the things you follow through on and do. In a perfect world, your say/do ratio is 1:1, meaning…
(This post is excerpted from The 5 Coaching Habits of Excellent Leaders.) A business that delivers reliable results is the sum of reliable teams, and reliable teams are the sum of reliable individuals. So, building reliable business results really starts with a leader coaching each team member to deliver reliable individual results. Personal reliability is…
Reliability something every leader wants more of from his or her team. Your challenge is to coach for reliable individual performance as the building block of a reliable and profitable business. Jeanne Bliss, an expert on customer-driven growth, discusses the power of social media to amplify your experience with any given business, good or bad:…
Inspiring leaders coach good team members to become better people. They help them build better lives for themselves and others. They build their team from the inside out ... inspiring excellence at work and in life. In the crunch of daily demands, we sometimes forget a fundamental law of leadership: If our teams are successful,…
Video of Wsf4Szk4JQs Leadership is an inside job particularly when we're dealing with performance challenges on our teams. Let me just paint the picture and give a little background on that. There's a great book that I love titled, “Why Employees Don't Do What They're Supposed To Do and What To Do About I” by…
My oldest of three children recently moved to New York to begin his career in advertising (www.CameronColan.com). I have helped lots of friends and even their kids with job searches and career advice over the years (call it my avocation). Since this was my own child, in addition to helping with his job search strategy…
Here are five simple steps to ensure you coach your new team players to deliver winning results. They are based on best practices from my experiences with our clients for the past 17 years: Assess the Player - Use a few types of assessments to capture intelligence (e.g., Wonderlic), Leadership capability (e.g., Leadership Practices Inventory),…
In today’s environment of high-velocity change, a business’s technology, product innovation or unique distribution are only fleeting advantages. In fact, the only sustainable competitive advantage is an organization’s talent and how reliably they perform. Andrew Carnegie came to America from his native Scotland when he was a small boy, did a variety of odd jobs,…
This summer we enjoyed a family trip to Greece. It is a land of boundless beauty and tremendous thinkers. While touring the Acropolis our guide mentioned that while scheduling its restoration, time was built into each day for workers to spend time thinking! Imagine that happening almost anywhere else in the world. Greece's history is built upon the minds…
