Thought Leadership

Today’s global marketplace and technology have created an environment where leaders encounter diversity in age, gender, ethnicity, religion, values, education, etc.  The richness of diversity, when managed well, creates a stronger, innovative, and more productive work team. Unfortunately, many current events are creating more polarization of people and making it harder for teams to accomplish […]

In today’s world, people can be polarized on subjects such as political, religious, and philosophical beliefs. These polarizations can creep into the workplace and lead to conflict, destroy teamwork, waste valuable time/resources and cause unnecessary stress. When teams are fighting, communication suffers, production goes down, and deadlines are missed. While leaders can never totally eliminate

As a new year quickly approaches, it is important to live intentionally and make the most of it. One way to do that is by setting goals. Goals give clear direction and help to focus on achieving the things that are most important to you in your life. People that do not set goals for

Two of the most important jobs for a manager to do is to set goals for the team and then hold them accountable for accomplishing those goals. Unfortunately, when a person is promoted to a manager, many companies do not provide training on how to do this. Newly promoted managers are often operating in a

Dale Carnegie said, “There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.” When people are intentional in these four contact areas, they can create strong