An employee enters your office with a problem and in turn you offer a solution. As an executive coach, leadership development advisor and Vistage chair I have worked with hundreds of executives who want to solve all the problems of … Continue reading
One of my five top leadership mistakes is the vicious spiral many leaders get sucked into: the urgent taking over the important on a continual basis. This spiral leads to goals that are unmet or have slipped past their deadline. … Continue reading
The other day I was facilitating a strategy meeting with a group of executives. During the meeting, I started to notice a familiar pattern of listening that you all have observed in the past. Of the 8 participants, two of … Continue reading
Giving employees solutions to their problems doesn’t help you or them in the long run. Asking questions of them to get them to develop their own solution will save you endless hours in the long run as well as develop the employee to a higher level of performance. Continue reading
I was recently facilitating one of my Vistage CEO groups in which the group was reviewing the way we had been operating looking for ways to improve our meetings. One of the members shared a best practice with the group … Continue reading
