You’re Part of a Team, Right?
Or is it Merely a Working Group? As children and teenagers most of us played on a team of some kind: sports or otherwise. Remember what it felt like to be part of a winning team or, alternatively, a losing team? Recall the elation you felt when your team won an...
Exploring Emotional Intelligence
Some of you may be quite familiar with the concept of emotional intelligence or emotional quotient (EQ) while others of you may have heard the terms but know little about them. Regardless of your level of knowledge or experience with emotional intelligence, here's a...
The Mindset and Behaviors of Building Trust
Let's look at a trust. Trust can be defined as a belief in the reliability, truth, ability or strength of someone or something. How do you define trust? Think for a moment and answer this question: What does trust mean to you? At the heart of any professional...
Authority and Power
Have you ever observed two individuals of equal position, rank, and authority in an organization? One seems to accomplish everything successfully and with ease, while the other seems to always be "under the gun," having a crisis and a difficult time. You are viewing...
Overcoming a Fear of Failure
In school we were asked to answer questions and take tests. Typically, there were right and wrong answers, passing and failing grades. Because we're a product of our past experiences, we took this same framework into our adult experiences. We have goals and we judge...
Tips for Organizing Your Workspace
As I’ve written about recently, when working with clients on time management, we always discuss prioritization and then we identify what’s most important for them to address/improve/achieve. Another important aspect of time management is organization, and I wanted to...
Leadership Often Gets Communicating Organizational Change Wrong
Everyone knows that communication is a critical element of organizational change. Unfortunately, leadership often gets it wrong. I like to keep things simple and, in this case, I view that there are four levels of communication related to change when focusing at the...
Prioritizing What’s Most Important
Prioritizing what’s most important in our life: it’s extremely critical but too often we’re either reluctant to do it, do it poorly, don’t stick with it, or don’t even consider it. In a recent post, we explored the biggest MYTH in time management (the idea that you...
The Biggest Myth in Time Management
There are myriad facets to managing your time well. And it’s easy to become overwhelmed by the multitude of techniques and tactics that are espoused, the apps that are available, and the well-intentioned advice from others. However, if you want to make real progress,...
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