Are Coaches Worth the Money?
Hiring a business coach isn’t cheap – it’s an investment. An investment in your career. An investment in your life. An investment in your relationships. Ask anyone who has ever hired a coach and they will tell you it’s the best money they have ever spent to improve their professional and personal life. A coaching […]
A Leader’s Guide to Building Relationships and Employee Engagement: Tip # 7 – Encourage Team Relationships
A key role leaders play is helping their team perform better together. To achieve levels of high-performance, you need to dedicate time to developing the relationships within the team. When relationships grow stronger so does trust, collaboration and accountability. Concept: Leaders help their teams perform better together. To achieve high performance, focused time should be given to developing the relationships within the team which builds trust. Ask Yourself: Do the members of our team know each other well? How have I encouraged relationship building among team members? Take Action: Write […]
A Leader’s Guide to Building Relationships and Employee Engagement: Tip #3 Communicate
What we say and how we say it, can make or break a relationship. In our Leader’s Guide to Building Relationships, Tip #3 is communicate with care. Concept: How often do you experience miscommunication issues at work? Frequently, right? That’s because it’s not only what you communicate (words), but how you communicate (voice, body language) that either conveys the message you intended or causes misunderstanding and even conflict. Ask Yourself: How do I perceive my communication is being received by others? What do I […]
A Leader’s Guide to Building Relationships: Tip # 2 Connect with People to Build Trust
Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship. In our Leader’s Guide to Building Relationships, Step #2 is to connect with people to build trust. Concept: In sharing more about yourself as a person and being vulnerable, you will start to build trust. When you seek to understand more about others, this shows that you care about them as a person and trust will grow even deeper. Ask Yourself: How much do I know about each of my employees’, interests, dreams and fears? Do I know their career aspirations? Do I know what motivates them and what keeps them engaged? Take Action: Select an employee and invite them to coffee or lunch outside of the office for the purpose of getting to know them better. Treat the time as though you were meeting a new acquaintance and were interested in learning more about them. Reflect: What did I learn about the employee that will help me serve him/her better as a leader? Next: Continue to have similar “get to know you” meetings with other employees. Make notes to keep information straight and […]
The Ideal Team Player
One of the benefits of being a Board Member for Make-A-Wish Orange County and Inland Empire are the professional development opportunities that are available. This week I got a preview of Patrick Lencioni’s newest book, The Ideal Team Player from the the man himself in a live webcast, hosted by Make-A-Wish, CEO David Williams. I […]
Will You Mentor Me?
You’ve looked at her profile and checkout her photos. You’ve read her social media feeds and decided it’s time to pop the question. Not the one to share eternal love and and a life together, but “Will you Mentor Me?” Like any successful relationship, a mentoring relationship should be rooted in trust and mutual respect. […]
Fall More, Learn More
Skiing down an a steep run filled with moguls, I caught an edge and fell hard. My son whose skills had advanced so we could tackle these more challenging runs was behind me. He also fell to avoid hitting me. This was nothing new for him. As someone developing his skills, he falls frequently. The […]
Teamwork, Synergy & Trust
What is the one thing that can change everything? Trust. Imagine the difference it would make if you were able to increase the amount of trust in the important personal and professional relationships in your life.\n\nSecond Harvest Food Bank, CEO, Nicole Suydam recognizes that trust is a performance multiplier. She knows having her leadership […]
Employees Just Wanna Have Fun
Does fun really matter? You bet. All work and no play, makes for grumpy, disengaged employees.\n\nLean teams with limited resources and tight schedules, still need to make time to come together for the purpose of getting to know each other.\n \n Do you think bringing chocolate chip cookies into a meeting, makes a difference? Absolutely. […]
Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose it
If ever we needed a renewed discussion of credible leadership, it is now!\n\nSo what are we to do? What positive actions can any of us take to restore trust and confidence, and to rebuild and strengthen credibility over time?\n\nFortunately, with the publication this month of the all new and revised Credibility: How Leaders Gain and Lose […]