Your Career, Like Life Itself, is Defined by Choices: How to Embrace Personal Agency In both life and career, the choices we make shape our trajectory. Embracing personal agency means taking control of your path and happiness. It’s about shifting from a reactive...
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Building Confidence and Agency to Transform Your Culture
Building Confidence and Agency to Transform Your Culture While sitting in a master’s degree course about organizational management the professor was sharing the different organizing models that exist. There was the traditional pyramid, the matrix, network, and flat...
The Future of Work in 2035: The Evolution of Business Culture That Will Improve Company Results & Well-Being in the 22nd Century
The Future of Work in 2035: A Forward by Dr. Michael R. Moore The Future of Work Culture In professional evolution and workplace transformation, few voices have been as prescient and insightful as Dr. Russ Ouellette. This book, I believe, is a pivotal piece on the...
Cherish Loyalty – To a Point
Cherish Loyalty – To a Point Loyalty is powerful driver of progress and success. It creates long lasting, and productive relationships. These relationships are satisfying and provide us with a sense of tribe and belonging. Loyalty allows us to count on each other,...
Coaching Others Will Make You a Better Leader and Human
Coaching Others, and That Unique Relationship, Will Make You a Better Leader and Human How to Coach Others The activity of coaching, for me, is like a relationship meditation. Those who’ve received coaching at any level will find great benefit. However, what most...
Keep and Develop Tenured Employees: They are a Core Value of Your Company
Keep and Develop Tenured Employees: They are a Core Value of Your Company When I was 40 years old, I told a 50-year-old colleague that I was thinking about changing careers. He said to me, “you better do it now because when you're 50 years old you'll not be taken...
Identifying and Evolving High Potential Employees (HiPos)
How to Identify and Evolve High Potential Employees (HiPos) The Pareto principle suggests that 80% of consequences come from 20% of the causes. This is true for the best and brightest on your team. Good leaders know this and put in an outsized effort to recognize and...
Really Great Teams Realize Psychological Safety
Really Great Executive Teams Realize Psychological Safety For all of us to be at our best as a team and individual contributors, we need to be confident, motivated, and have the ability to be in the arena, as Theodore Roosevelt understood. We need to engage our peers...
The Five Components of Confidence
How we embrace our own strength and power can make all the difference in our effectiveness and enjoyment about the things we do. Confidence is a mindset that we can control and embrace to demonstrate that strength and power. In our last blog, we defined confidence and...
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