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Decisions without Commitment – a Recipe for Strategic Failure

Decisive leadership is wonderful, but it is not enough. Even good decisions are irrelevant without commitment on the part of those leading the change.

Managing People and Results? Self-Care Should be Top Priority

NOLS’ guiding principles and 1,200+ hours of skill development helped me return as a more resourceful and a stronger judge of priorities. Yet, the greatest benefit seems to be my renewed focus on self-care.

Your People, an Overlooked Ingredient in Making Your Strategy Viable

If you’re cooking up a strategy, be sure to mix in employee insights.

Frontline Managers – Your Weak Link?

If your managers don't see their main job as "leading people," your company won't get where it wants to go.

Managers Can Make or Break Your Organization’s Strategy

If you're not investing in your managers you may be holding your organization back from making your strategies a success. Find out how to empower your managers to create phenomenal teams and boost employee engagement.

Owning the Whole Before Your Piece – Part 2

Owning the whole creates a significant difference between organizations successfully executing on strategies and those struggling to realize the intended results.

Owning the Whole Before Your Piece – Part 1

Leaders are so focused on their piece of the puzzle, they miss the big picture. Harness talent into integrated and simplified priorities for their organization.

Plan a People Strategy like a Product Strategy

If leaders think like marketers and treat employees the same way they would customers, the implementation of a new strategy would go much different.

Leveraging Learning Cycles to Nurture Leadership

The cycle of briefing, executing, and debriefing is important to football teams, the military, and to your business. These learning cycles are key for employee growth.

A Leader’s Role in Creating a Safe Haven

Few opportunities for building trust are as profound as a leader’s role in creating a “safe haven” for difficult conversations, decisions, and strategy execution.

Do Your Employees Love You?

We all know we can't buy love, but that doesn't stop companies from trying to buy employee engagement, loyalty, or company pride. Learn four ways to naturally gain employee loyalty.

Lifecycle of a Change

Strategic change is a process that takes time and it must be planned out to deliver those first steps of success and ensure sustainment.

What Does It Mean to Be a Leader? Cutting to the Chase

Swimming through a sea of leadership advice that may not fit your situation? Here are three pieces of advice that you can apply to your business today.

Your Managers Aren’t Aligned on Your Strategy

Your business may not be musical, but your orchestra needs a conductor who knows the score.

The Art of Engagement – Inspiring People, Creating Change, and Making a Difference

There are four key concepts that contribute to building employment engagement and improving productivity.

The Power of Visuals to Solve Story Problems

Solving for complex strategies require visuals to help businesses relay the strategy to employees, just as a 10 year old uses visuals to solve complex math homework.

Working Together is Success – Taking on a Team Attitude

If you want people to “play” with others they need to understand the rules of the game! That means engaging individuals in how their efforts impact their team’s success and how their team’s success contributes to the overall achievements of the company.

The Fine Line Between Direction and Engagement – Part 2

The vision that leaders create is only as strong as the commitment they get from everybody else. Read a few ways to reach this balance.

The Fine Line Between Direction and Engagement – Part 1

Whether your company’s vision is posted on a wall or embedded in your operations comes down to a question of balance. Here’s the question you need to answer!

Roots of Engagement Issue Three – People Want to Go on a Meaningful Journey

People want to go on a meaningful journey. There is more drama and adventure in companies than on a reality show, but it’s paved over by sterilized PowerPoints. How will you turn your strategy into an adventure story?

M&A Make or Break – Part 2 – Creating a Culture of Competence

Creating a culture just to have a culture after a merger and acquisition will not help you achieve success. These five questions will help create a culture of competence that is focused around aligning organizational focus, capability, systems, and processes.

M&A Make or Break – Do Your Employees Understand the Value it Will Create?

Creating a culture just to have a culture after a merger and acquisition will not help you achieve success. It's more critical to create a culture of competence that is focused around aligning organizational focus, capability, systems, and processes.

From 1776 to 2011: Good Strategies Never Go Out of Date

I’ve always admired George, and I’m continually impressed by the forward-thinking leadership tenets he demonstrated to first his troops and then to his new country.

Strategy or Values? Yes!

You’ve likely heard the phrase, “Culture eats strategy for lunch.” The idea behind this is that values and cultural norms in an organization are often much stronger than the strategy that gets communicated in PowerPoint decks from the company’s top leaders.