Today we begin a 3-part series on leading through the churn. We make a distinction between “churn” and “turnover.” Be sure to watch or listen to all 3 parts of this series. We hope you find it helpful. Be well. Do good. Grow great! Check out the Hosts page for our profiles. Connect With […]

  How can we improve ourselves and achieve greater success? One major contributor is our willingness and ability to focus on others…and how we can help them. Today we hope to provoke you to think about how you can step up your game and develop into a more impactful person in the lives of others. […]

  You, the leader, must have a clear purpose and mission. You have to know why you’re in it and what IT is. High performing teams aren’t constructed based on pure logic or reason. They need an emotional oomp – a genuine reason for existing. Something big to take a collective aim at. I’ve been […]

  Older folks admonished me, “Grow where you’re planted.” The wisest of old folks who surrounded me influenced me to be careful where I was willing to plant myself. They knew the soil of my life would matter. It would determine how strong I’d be able to grow. Today, join me and Lisa as we […]

  Busy, busy, busy!  It’s the battle cry in every city. The flow of work that must be done is often overwhelming. Managers lament, “I don’t have time to grow my people. We’ve got too much work to do.” It’s an excuse.  And a flimsy one.  It may even be delusional for managers who choose […]

  Everything in your life is a reflection of a choice you have made. If you want a different result, make a different choice.    – Unknown Regularly I challenge my coaching clients with this question, “What would happen if you made up your mind to own it? All of it?” Everybody responds with a […]

  As consumer we’ve all experienced that awful time when people don’t do what they say. It’s frustrating. Sometimes infuriating. Because we’re on the receiving end of that experience.  Truth is, we’re all capable of being on the other end, too. We can tell others we’ll do something, but then drop the ball leaving it […]

  Many of us value popularity over influence. Some degree of fame over impact.  I ran across a statement that I had to write down in my little notebook… Others will attempt to get you to lower your standards, to compromise performance and lower your expectations because that’s where you’ll find the crowd. Today, we […]

  Our show today began with seeing this quote after the NBA championship series was won by the Denver Nuggets. This quote provoked us to think about the power of resilience in personal, professional and leadership growth.  If you want to be successful…you need to be bad, then you need to be good. Then when […]

  “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”    – Albert Einstein I heard Herminia Ibarra, a Yale-educated Ph.D. in organizational behavior, talk about the value of saying it out loud. Or saying it to somebody who you’re not that close to. She meant that by having to explain it […]