5 actions for better team members
Your team members are the lifeblood of your organization.
Transitioning staff well
Staffing turnover dramatically increased during the global pandemic, and organizations need to become better at transitioning staff well.
4 ways to create better company culture
Are your values producing the results you want?
4 components of tuning-fork leadership
Is everyone in the organization clear on our overall direction? Is everyone clear on our priorities? Does everyone see how their contribution fits into the big picture?
Motivate your teams with these 4 neuroscience keys
Neuroscience is discovering effective ways to motivate others based on how our brains work. Consider putting these four brain-based ideas into your motivation toolbox.
15 top issues explaining most organizational challenges
I've consulted with hundreds of clients across industries and cultures. While everyone is unique, their challenges usually are not.
Use these 3 ways to align your team
When a team member is out of alignment, it can cause the same drift and shakiness to the organization that a tire out of alignment can cause to your vehicle.
How to confidently mediate conflict at work
Instead of acting as if conflict is an intrusion, the best leaders recognize that addressing conflict effectively is one of their most important responsibilities.
How to quickly diagnose a workplace conflict
Conflict is a highly subjective experience for most people. Subject to interpretation. In nearly all cases, there is a lack of shared information, facts, and understanding.
Are you rewarding the right things?
By rewarding these positive behaviors, leaders will see their team members stepping up to new challenges, conquering old challenges, and bringing new leaders up with them.
Salty and unified
There are appropriate times to engage in robust theological debate. There are also times when we must enlist every available Christian to help stem the tide of darkness.
Four ways effective leaders deal with conflict and weirdness
The voice on the phone said, "We'd like you to work with Bill. He's one of our supervisors. He has problems working well with other people."
Frustrated by repeated conflicts?
What is your tendency in conflict?
4 ways to move your team from languishing to thriving
In a recent conversation with a leader we work with, a concern he raised really caught my attention. He said, "My team seems to be doing the best they can, but I don't get a sense that they're flourishing."
Confession: I was a benevolent dictator
When they came to me with an idea, I applauded them for their idea and then shared with them two or more things that would add horsepower to their plan.
3 fool-proof ways to improve your culture
With intentional, consistent effort, you can cultivate in your team healthier habits and behaviors that, over time, catch on, spread, and lead to a thriving team dynamic.
13 great questions leaders ask other leaders
When you connect with other leaders, what do you ask them? Here are questions to get a conversation going.
Navigating conflict (or sin) on your team
Brittany Rust shares the biblical model for addressing sin and conflict on your team. (This is a snippet from Brittany's online leadership course for women, Leading and Loving From the Woman's Heart, found at brittanyrust.com.)
Strengthen your meeting agendas!
How many meeting agendas have you read where the leader listed topics but gave you no clue as to what outcome he or she wanted?
Gender issues in leadership
Many of us have formed our views about women and leadership by osmosis. We've simply absorbed the beliefs of denominations, our leaders, our parents, and our mentors without asking the questions and studying the issue for ourselves about what makes a leader and who is eligible to lead.
