Culture of Collaboration

Lately, many of my conversations with clients have been around how to develop new ways to enhance everything from sales to executive leadership. For today’s post I thought I would focus on two areas: Presenting the essentials for creating a focus on engagement as a methodology and as a new frontier for creating results and […]

In the last two weeks there have been several conversations about change and about the changing organization of companies, sometimes from within and sometimes because of mergers or acquisitions. How does an acquired company remain viable and exciting enough to create a lasting positive impact and be recognized as a business expander?

As I speak with leaders in different business arenas there is much discussion about increasing results, particularly with sales, and concerns about how to get there. There is still a tendency even in the new business climate to encourage competition as a way to increase high performance even at the executive level. Instead of using competition […]

This weekend I decided to take the time to become involved in an on-line discussion through Harvard Business Review Linked In Group. The question posed was; What is more important – a great business idea or a great team? Many of us talked about how both are important; some said that a good idea is […]

The start of 2013 seems to be bringing awareness and learning at a very quick pace for many business owners and executives with whom I have spoken recently. And I have had similar experiences, one of which I’d like to share with you today and how I created greater understanding and opportunity from it. My […]

I’d like to share another discussion I had with a client recently who is working with her team to create the strategy of the business for next year. As with many of you, she is envisioning some new business models, as well as new products, which will require something new from the entire team of […]

The most important element of changing to the Collaborative Leadership Model is making the team process a priority. Therefore part of each team meeting should include time to recognize the team process. The focus of the Collaborative Leadership Model is the essential tripod of Communication, Accountability and Solution Focus which you have heard me discuss […]

I always think of this time of year as a new beginning. I think it comes from the many years I was a student and I always thought of this time as a new start where I was going to get new information, new awareness and become more personally effective. In my last post I […]

How is it that days go by with certain priorities still looming and undone? My forthcoming book, Jumping From the I-pod to the We-Pod: Breaking Through the Barriers to Essential Collaboration is our format for making connection the number one tool for getting things done and projects completed. Leaders are expected to have ideas and […]