Ground Rules for Accountability Tool
A simple yet powerful tool for shaping behaviors, especially in the area of holding employees accountable for ethical conduct, is “playground rules.”
Vacation Planning – A Model for Business and Success
Share this article: How to build a culture of foresighted planning. While you are sitting there daydreaming about your next vacation, let me borrow the use of your vivid imagination for a few minutes. It’s mid-July and you just decided that you and your...
The More You Know, the Faster Your Team Grows!
Share this article: We are all in the information business and we are only as good as the products we supply to our customers and clients. Think about the last time you dined at a full-service restaurant. Recalling the person who waited on you, answer...
Team Culture
Share this article: Teams Don’t Work! (Unless You Cultivate Them with Directed Autonomy) The company was days away from bankruptcy. It looked like nothing could save it… except for a cash infusion of a half million, which was not going to happen. Yet, six months...
A Concern for All Good Leaders: The End of ‘Why?’
Share this article: “I didn’t know how to fix the door lock so I found a video on YouTube and discovered how” my friend Jon reported to me recently. When my son-in-law and daughter decided to paint the interior of their house—something neither had ever done before—I...