Preparing For The End Of A Crisis
How can you, as a leader, start to lay the plans for your post crisis recovery? It’s time to think more positively about what you’re going to do as a leader to position your team and your organization for success post crisis. Eventually we’re going to get through the current situation and at that […]
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Staying Connected With Your Team
It’s important to stay connected with your team as a leader, especially in uncertain times. Leaders have the tendency to become less supportive of their team in times of stress, when in fact they need to be even more supportive. When people are under stress, they have some interesting human behaviors and many people, […]
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Motivate Others By Motivating Yourself
Why do you as a leader need to motivate yourself in order to motivate others? Taking care of yourself and focusing on self-care is important as a leader so you can be motivated enough to engage your team. The reality is, just like everyone else, leaders can become demotivated, frustrated, or even worried and […]
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Keeping Focus in Uncertain Times
How can you as the leader retain your level of confidence even in challenging times? The reality is that when you’re under stress and in uncertain times, it can test the resolve of many leaders to remain confident. Both about the short-term viability of the production environment, and the long-term success of the enterprise. […]
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Get More Engagement From Your Team
How do you as a leader set goals that maximize employee engagement? How high should you set goals so your team is the most motivated to achieve them? In the book Switch, How to Change Things when Change is Hard, written by Chip and Dan Heath, they tell the story of one of their […]
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Develop Better Leadership Habits
How can you, as a leader, focus on building your leadership habits even though you’re busy taking care of your day to day activities? Who hasn’t gone to a training session or a conference and written down a ton of ideas, only to come back and several weeks later look back and say, “Man, […]
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How To Hire Faster
How can you add to your team rapidly and accelerate your hiring process, when business is booming because of the crisis or uncertainty out there? Even though a lot of businesses have had to cut back during this crisis, we’ve actually seen a number of companies having to rapidly scale up because the demand […]
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Leading A Virtual Team
How can you as a leader lead a virtual team? There are special challenges to leading a virtual team and ways that you, as a leader can be more effective with these challenges. The first thing to realize is that trust often erodes with distance, so the fact you’re not around those people and […]
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Leading During A Crisis
How should you as a leader lead during a crisis? How you lead your team through a crisis is definitely different compared with normal times. First of all, recognize that even though part of your role as a leader is to act as if nothing else has changed, that probably won’t fit in times […]
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Maintain Stress Resilience During a Crisis
Today, we’re going to be talking about stress-resiliency. In the video and podcast related to this week’s episode, you’ll see and hear the interview I did with stress resilience expert Brad Coulbeck. Brad is the author of the book The Resilient Mind: How to Achieve Success by Building Mental and Emotional Toughness. Here are […]
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