Communication issues can be detrimental to a functional team. For leaders struggling to get work done through those issues, the 5 Rules...
How Same-Page Meetings Work for All Leaders
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Professional Development
How to Encourage Team Growth Past “Blind Spots”
In any business, continuous employee growth is key to success. It’s easy to lose sight of professional development when we don’t keep it at the forefront. Quarterly conversations are not only a place for you and your...
Tools for Better Quarterly Conversations
Even if you talk with your team members and have regular check-ins, the quarterly conversations are still a critical part of EOS. They offer a unique opportunity to truly listen to what each individual team member has to...
Overcoming the 3 Barriers to Delegation
At the beginning of every EOS journey is Focus Day. It’s a day dedicated to establishing the leadership team, setting rocks, and learning about the five leadership abilities and how you can use them to create breakthrough moments for your...
3 Things You NEED to Teach Mid-Level Managers
When you grow to have mid-level managers in your organization—which generally leads to more disconnect from the day-to-day—it brings a whole new level of complexity. With a million things on your mind to keep the business afloat, there’s one task that often falls through the cracks: making sure mid-level managers have enough training.
Top Tips for Beating Burnout
Exhausted, overwhelmed, void of passion for our work. Burnout is no joke, and it happens to even the most experienced businesspeople! Here are my top tips for healing and—most importantly—preventing burnout.
3 Tips to Encourage Your Team to Establish Their Own Rocks
Cascading EOS is about completing three main tasks: teaching the tools to your team, coaching them through barriers they encounter when using the tools, and ultimately watching them become such experts they can go through...
Why Every Member of Your Team Should Lead
If I asked you to draw me a picture of a leader, you might pull together a confident and commanding CEO running a meeting, a press conference, or a standup with a group of people. Leaders tend to stand out for how they carry themselves, what they wear, and certainly...
One Word That Improves All Leaders
Love. This word can mean a lot of different things to people. For many of us, it has deep roots that take us back to our childhood, current and past relationships, and even the media bombards us with mixed messages about...
Golf, Ego and Leadership: 3 questions to get you out of the trap
Leadership lessons are all around us. Here is a lesson I learned around EGO during a golf game. The irony is that I failed to listen to the exact words I wrote and the metric(my score) reflected it. Here is how to identify where your ego is getting in your way and three questions to step back and reset. Watching the movie Tin Cup is your homework if you want to explore the topic further.
Not enough…money? Time? How to move to enough.
Not enough money. Not enough time. Not enough resources. Not enough budget. Do you live in the state of any of these? A wealth manager taught me something today that translates through a lot of situations leaders run into personally and with the teams they lead. Explore it and learn a couple of key questions that can help move past ‘not enough’ to ‘enough’.
What book will you read or give?
A good book can be a tremendously inspirational tool, if you pick the right one. Here are some of my top recommendations to gift this holiday season, either to yourself or someone you know – make sure to plan time to read, reflect, and start setting those goals.