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Are Drop-in Meetings Sabotaging Your Effectiveness as a Leader?

A few years ago I was asked to coach the COO of a large regional bank. I was coaching the President, CEO, and several senior vice presidents on the leadership team. One of the COO’s goals for our coaching engagement was time management because he was consistently taking work home in the evenings and over…
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Create Quality, High-Performing, Connections with your Business Teams

A few weeks ago I announced a new, online interactive training series starting May 15 that offers busy business executives a jump-start method for propelling their teams into high performance mode.   In today’s post, I want to more fully explain one of the main elements outlined in the series for creating high performance in…
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Business Teams that Produce More Results – Learn 4 Practical Steps

In today’s business environment, many business leaders are challenged with leveraging fewer resources for more profits, including their workforce, making team collaboration an essential part of their success. If you are a leader struggling with team productivity and results, you don’t want to miss my upcoming interactive teleclass series: Collaborative Leadership: How to Harness the…
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Harness the Power in Your People, Create Teams who Produce More Results: Free Webinar, March 27

Are you a business leader managing fewer resources for more profit? In today’s business environment companies must produce greater results with less woman/manpower. Organizations focusing on creating collaborative leadership with more aligned team environments are discovering that by fostering communication, accountability and a solution-focused culture, they create more dynamic and sustainable results. Their employees/teams are…
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A New Year: A New View on Collaborative Leadership and High Performance

In celebration of the New Year and a new view on Collaborative Leadership and High Performance, I am posting a link to my most recent video, Collaborate Leadership: How to Harness the Power in Your People. Recently published neuroscience research connects High Performance to many of the same elements contained in our Collaborative Leadership Model:…
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The Collaborative Leadership Process and High Performance are Intrinsically Related

As I write this post in December, I am looking at a white landscape outside my window.  I want to wish all of you the happiest of Holiday Seasons and to encourage you to look ahead to next year. I see two important focus points in 2012 for executive leaders who want to improve their…
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Behavior Changes That Will Improve Your Company Productivity – Part III

A few weeks ago I introduced four aspects for creating a company culture that align individual productivity with team values and goals. So far I have discussed the first two of the four aspects of culture and culture change as they relate to self-management and leading others using daily behavioral changes: • Proactive vs. Reactive • Focus…
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Simple Behavioral Changes that Improve Overall Company Productivity

I have spent a number of years working with individual leaders and leadership teams to help them create a company culture that aligns individual productivity with team values and goals. In order to create this type of culture, productivity must be integrated into the management structure of an organization; individual leadership behaviors that relate to…