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How to Start the New Decade in Deeper Conversations
As we start a new decade, what if you took a minute to have some deeper conversations with your team? In addition to your kick-off meetings and goal setting sessions, what if you also paused to have a deeper conversation to build trust and connection, and inspire one...
How Good Facilitation Increases Inclusion and Belonging
Lead Change is a leadership media destination with a unique editorial focus on driving change within organizations, teams, and individuals. Lead Change, a division of Weaving Influence, publishes twice monthly with SmartBrief. I spent 15 years as an HR leader in...
Three Truths of CEO Communication for 2020
Communicating with your employees, engaging them, and having them work together to execute the company’s business strategy in 2020 will require embracing the following three truths. Effective communication of your message to your employees (and received as intended)...
Use the ‘15-Minute Checkout’ to Save Time — and Your Sanity — at Work and in Life
“It is not enough to be busy,” said Henry David Thoreau. “So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?” Odds are you can relate, especially at work. You are ever busy, yet at the end of the day, you wonder what you really accomplished. Worse, the next...
Sears’ Seven Decades of Self-Destruction
The kindest media attention Sears has attracted in years arrived in April, when the company announced it was opening three small stores. “The start of a new Sears era? The retailer announces openings, not closings,” read USA Today’s hopeful headline, which echoed...
Want a Better Decision? Plan a Better Meeting
Decisions are the lifeblood of organizations, and meetings are where important business decisions often happen. Yet many executives are nonplussed—at best—when describing their own experience of meetings. Some business leaders we know wonder openly how they can...
Questions For Improving the Quality of Your Leadership
Last December, Ann, one of my clients, called and asked for help in managing a difficult situation. Evidently, Ann’s manager called everyone on his team into a meeting and asked them to critique how well they had served their customers in 2018. He asked everyone to be...
You’re a CEO. Now How Do You Speak Like One?
Ready to tap into your natural talents to activate stakeholders? Now that you're the CEO, how do you speak like one? Keep reading! Leadership is performance. Leaders speak, and speakers lead.The middle statement above is the one that CEOs often have trouble with. They...
To Attract a Generation that Grew Up With Cellphones and iPads, the Construction Industry Goes High-Tech
When Vlad Rotaru leaves the office trailer at the Toronto construction site where he works, the most important tool he carries — apart from the hard hat and safety vest he wears — is his smartphone. The 22-year-old received his mechanical engineering degree in April...