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The Neuroscience Of Positive Leadership
Research on the neuroscience of positive leadership, to me, seems like the best idea ever! If you have positive leadership, creating a positive organizational culture, things start to take care of themselves, ROI, productivity fall into place. http://www.unc.edu/peplab/research.html
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Public Speaking
Yesterday I held a TEDxWomen event here in IL, on the beautiful North Shore of Lake Michigan, outside of Chicago, in the amazing suburb of Winnetka. I learned a few extremely valuable lessons in the compact time I had to organize it, raise money for it, pick speakers and implement it all. 1) It is […]
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The Basics
It is amazing how we can go down the rabbit hole of business verbiage and assess and re-assess. There is merit in educating yourself on a myriad of topics; however, if you want to get down to the two basic elements that will rock or drop your return on investment (ROI), focus on your people […]
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You Must Recharge
My friend Melissa once told me chickens brood, sitting in what could appear to be a very unproductive manner, in order to be uber-productive later. I’m paraphrasing that a bit. Melissa said it much better-she lives on a farm and knows things and knew I needed to dial it down at the time. All this […]
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Ratty Transgressions
There are all types of very important, official sounding words to describe group/team conflict dynamics. We can talk about proportional or perceptual conflict, but what it all boils down to on most occasions when conflict goes from productive to toxic is what I like to call “rats in a cage conflict.” “Rats in a cage […]
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Performance Strategy
If you ask your boss or those you manage/lead, what their performance strategy is, what do you anticipate hearing? If you ask yourself what your performance strategy is, what is your answer? Who is setting the tone, and bar, relating to performance strategies in your organization?
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Performance Matching
Performance matching is a common phenomena within the workplace. It consists of group work and/or area work resulting in a consistent outcome pulled lower by the poorest performer. What does it look like? Say two teams are working at opposites sides of the building on the same task. The groups outcomes will tend to match […]
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Being Productive At Work Means Getting A Life
Working more does not always equate to working better or higher results. One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received was while working for The Ohio State University in which human resources during training shared that if someone tells you they need something right away, it can usually wait 24 to 48 hours. […]
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Strategic Alignment For Individuals & Organizations 