Today’s technology is convenient and can be a cost effective way to connect and build partnerships. But technology can also drive a wedge between potential partners and turn misunderstandings into major turf battles if not handled professionally. Here’s a simple tip – never, ever respond to an email when you feel your temperature rising. Resist the temptation to become a “keyboard warrior” and instead pick up the phone and sort it out. 98% of these misunderstandings dissolve the minute you get your counterpart on the other line. This enables you and your colleages to move into the partner and prosper culture much easier.
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Technology Rich and Priority Poor?
A lack of manageable priorities is a lack of leadership. You can be technology and priority rich at the same time. When you are, you’ve learned to thrive in the age of overload.
The Emotional Edge
Highly effective leaders are aware of the emotions they transmit, know how to manage these emotions and are able to competently recognize and deal with the emotions of others.
Are You an Executive Ball Hog?
When the CEO, or any other senior executive, complains that they don’t get the buy-in they expect from their executive team or are concerned that they don’t get constructive push back from their executive colleagues, it could be an opportunity to look at how well “the ball” is being shared in the executive team.
In Need of a Small Candle?
A routine or rut resembles a dark room. You want to get out but you don’t know where the door is. If you could only find the door, you could get out of the dark room and disrupt the de-energizing routine that you are in.
Crafting a Strategic Narrative
Strategic content is important, but it is your strategic narrative that moves people into passionate action. As you and your leadership team share your strategy into the business, spend some time to review and sharpen how you present where your business is going with the people that make it happen.
Leadership Team Reflections for Results
15 days into the new year; are your well-intentioned resolutions already falling off your leadership team agenda?
Well intentioned leadership team resolutions can quickly get lost if they aren’t anchored in meaningful reflection.
Use this structure to make the most of your experiences from the past year so that you can profit from them in 2019:
Dan’s Summer Readings for Reflection & Growth
It is the beginning of August; that is holiday season for some and it’s always reading season in my calendar. I appreciate getting “good reading tips”, so here’ my summer reading suggestions for your reflection and growth. Talk Like Ted by Carmine Gallo Forged in Crisis by Nancy Koehn Buddism read more…
Creating Hard & Soft in the Executive Space
If people are only showing their best side and real discussions are being replaced with business updates from the team members, the team is missing “soft space opportunities”.
Executive Isolation
When executive leaders feel left out of the information loop or get information just before the train is going to hit the wall, it’s often the result of unintentional patterns by executives themselves that lead to the isolation syndrome