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12 Ways to Destroy Employee Engagement
Employee engagement is one of the focal points for improving business results. The notion of effectively shaping the employee experience is centered in improving engagement of employees to reduce turnover, improve productivity, increase accountability and achieve...
How to Lead When Your Team Resists Change
You’ve noticed a problem, spent the last four days meeting with finance, strategizing, and building an action plan. You’re energized about what your team will achieve, your boss and peers are on board, and it’s time to meet with your team to roll out the new process....
Why Do the Best you can’ is Terrible Advice
This line is meant to encourage high performance but actually has the opposite effect. In fact, I believe it directly promotes mediocrity. Don’t believe me? Imagine telling professionals who regularly make life-or-death decisions—say a trauma surgeon or a commercial...
Deep Dive: Building Steady Construction Cash Flows With Digital Tools
SMBs and project managers in the U.S. construction market must keep tabs on budgets and how funds are being spent if they want to meet the current projections for industry growth. The following Deep Dive explores how cost management solutions could help these firms...
Fixing Strategy Execution with Commander’s Intent
It's common to trip across articles or annual CEO surveys that blame strategy failure on poor execution. After all, few top executives are quick to say, "We executed fine. It was just a bad idea." Instead, the blame for strategy failure is placed on the shoulders of...
Lencioni: Meetings Are A Chief Executive’s Stage
If you were going to evaluate a surgeon’s skill, where would you want to observe her? In the operating room during surgery, right? What about an actor? On stage, of course. And how about a teacher? Clearly, in a class with students. You get the idea. Now brace...
Should You Use Integrated Project Delivery on Your Next Construction Project?
Complex construction projects have many moving parts and numerous st akeholders. Each project often contains its own unique challenges and obstacles. Finding the right solution does not often come by trying to utilize a one-size-fits-all approach. Indeed, complex...
Valuable Questions for Workplace One-On-Ones
I’ve written previously about the connection between self-awareness and innovation. In short, I argued that more people are valued as authentic individuals, the more likely they are to become creative contributors. The problem is that not all leaders are self-aware,...
5 Ways you can Overcome Uncertainty to be Successful
I will never forget the first day I ever shot a gun. I was on the firing line at the FBI Academy and holding a Smith & Wesson .38 revolver. My heart raced as I wiped the sweat from my palms. I was filled with uncertainty and worried that I wouldn’t shoot well...