Engagement is a pretty well-used buzzword these days. Here are two definitions attributed to 'engage': - participate or become involved in - occupy, attract or involve (someone's interest or attention) What does it mean to engage your team? Where do you want them engaged, or not? How do you know if they are disengaged? Good leaders find ways to create a safe environment so that you can share, be all in and of course be committed to the outcome & results. Good leaders know that it can be difficult to share, especially if you are going against the norm with a different perspective - finding out the reasons to this perspective creates interesting conversation and a new way to no longer be afr
Words come in books. Words come spoken. Words can be tactile, like brail. Words make our visions come alive. Words help us tell our story. Words are what make the connection between me & you - you are reading this, right? You are reading words....and you may even be hearing them in my voice if we have met before. Words are important. They mean almost as much as the connections we make when we put the words together. Think about this: Two of us can read the same book and it can have a different impact on each of us. Apply that to a sentence. Apply that to an email. Apply that to a text message. See what I mean? Words Matter. Think about the words you use & how you use them. Think about
Gallup puts out a 12 Question Survey to determine what it means to have a great place to work, to understand what employees needs are & to tell us, in the coaching and leadership world, how to continue to help focusing our clients on the right things. By looking at the Q12 above - what hits you as the biggest challenge if you were to ask your team to tell you how you (as their leader) do with for them or with them or help them achieve this? What does it mean when your team members ask you to challenge them? What opportunities for learning & grow did you provide? Even more importantly, how did you challenge yourself so that you could 'walk your talk' and show them how to seek out challenges
It's time to plan how you will get your teams focused for the sprint to the end of the year. The Art of Inspiring Conversation is an interactive breakfast session I am hosting in Windsor, Ontario to showcase how to take business ideas and make them actionable, through your teams. It is one thing to have an idea, and quite another to act upon it. And we all know that you can't go it alone (for most things), especially in business. How you connect with the people around you - your team and even your customers, is really what matters to driving long lasting relationships that benefit both parties, as well as resulting in sales/new customers/new products and much more. Here is the question: Are
