team meetings

Today’s article relates to one I wrote on February 3 of this year as I was moving into the work of the Rockefeller Four Decisions. That article began with these questions: How can I develop a team that will not need to talk to me and still move forward? Why do we have a great…

I have been working in the area of meetings for many years as I have explored and implemented greater collaboration and alignment with leadership teams and their direct reports. When I began, meetings were often seen as a waste of time and effort and I often heard the phrase, “the only good meeting is a…

In my last published article, How Can You Win by Sharing Challenges and Problems? I introduced our Collaborate Leadership, Four Meeting Model which gives leaders an alternative approach to the development of teams into collaborative and innovative units. This team approach gives organizations the advantage by incorporating individual leadership development as the connection, and alignment,…

In my last article I talked about organizational change and the crucial stages of transition that create a more positive environment and greater buy-in. I received many comments about the essential ingredients for successful change, and it was enlightening and stimulating to see the thoughts that many are having about this. Our dialogue inspired me…

Last week I had the honor to be a leader of a 19-member team during the Women in Leadership Conference in San Francisco. We gathered every day for a couple of hours to digest the day and to begin the process of looking at leadership from a personal perspective as well as to use the…

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…

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…

I recently met with the Santa Fe Opera to discuss the collaborative leadership dynamic on their executive team, as well as how performances are created over a period of a few months. As usual, I discovered that the process is much longer and more involved than it looks from the outside. What seems to take…

It is hard to believe we are in the last month of summer! I hope this post finds you well. Today I’d like to give you some keys to moving away from the Command and Control model of Leadership, which has created the I-Pod existence, to the new leadership model of the We-Pod where communication is…

Ask yourself if these are thoughts you’ve had, or if you have heard these thoughts from others; and what price your organization pays when these situations occur. We do not function as a team. I have no idea what “they” are doing. I am asked questions that I cannot answer. My boss never lets me…