Engage Your Staff
In a 2015 Interact/Harris Poll of some 1000 U.S. workers, 91% of the respondents said communication issues prevent leaders from being as effective as they might be. The most frequent issues noted in the survey were:
Asking more Questions
- Upping your game
Questions
… How many have you asked today?
The importance of being able to ask and actually asking questions is verbalized in these four quotes:
Commitment Bias
… Sometimes it is actually better to stop, and not finish. Really?
Revolutionary Relationships
Thursday will be the 243rd anniversary of the adoption of the Declaration of Independence by the Second Continental Congress meeting at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on July 4th, 1776.
2019 Commencement Thoughts
…Helpful thoughts for the next steps in your life’s journey
Things Mentally and Emotionally Strong People Do
…and Don’t Do
Unconscious Biases
Several times over the past few years, the Tuesday Reading has focused on biases:
Holding a Grudge? Likely? Possibly?
… Let it go.
Be Still
Several years ago, Mary Jordan posted an essay, Be Still, and Be a Better Leader,1 on the Linkage Leadership Blog and it caught my attention. At that time, she was a Principle Consultant and Co-Leader of the Linkage Change and Transition Leadership Practice.