Are Your People Skills Holding Back Your Performance?
If you have ever tried working through people skills and challenging situations, you know that they are not easy, in fact, they are very hard.
Realigning Your Goals
As the Quarantine keeps slowly moving forward, we must continue working on finding the right and best ways to use our time.
Work on You
We can sit around and worry about COVID, what ailments we have, the government, allergy season and so many other things. However, worrying is a complete and utter waste of time and energy.
Recovery Thinking
Waiting to see how bad things get before you figure out how you want to respond to things is a losing proposition. We usually don’t make our best decisions under the pressure of having to make the decisions right away.
Coronovirus: 3 Things You Can Do Today
This week, the topic on everyone’s mind is COVID-19, or Coronavirus.
Data for Hiring
One of the hardest parts of leading any organization is hiring great talent.
Respect is Earned, Not Given?
Is respect earned, or given? For your own personal experiment, try this little exercise. Instead of waiting for people around you to “earn” your respect, lead yourself by giving them your respect first until and unless they show you a reason to do things differently. Give people your respect, and I bet most people will return the same to you.
Perseverance: A Will to Continually Improve
About 8 years ago my wife and I decided to take our then 5 and 3-year old on a hike up the trail near Rattlesnake Lake in Washington State.
How's Your Vision?
I remember when I first realized I needed to get my vision checked. I was about 28 years old and I was driving home on the interstate at night.
A Culture of “Mistakes”
While working 2nd shift at Toyota I took the opportunity to eat lunch with my son at his school.
Hitting the Reset Button
Where are you at in your journey? In your Life, your Business, with your Family and Friends? Are you Happy, truly Happy?
Overcoming Obstacles
I have a strong respect for heights…in other words, I’m afraid of heights. It isn’t so much the height itself as it is the potential to fall.
5 Steps to Creating an Awesome Culture
We all know that culture matters. Drucker is famously quoted with the phrase “culture eats strategy for breakfast”
Why Team Selection is a Critical Part of Problem Solving
Have you ever been stuck in a rut with problem solving activities? What causes stagnation in companies when it comes to solving problems?
Continuous Improvement: Expectations vs. Reality
In this post, I will dive into some of the expectations that tend to become a pitfall for many companies starting their lean journey.
Continuous Improvement Stats You Need to Know
Gallup’s most recent State of the Global Workplace report indicated the following: 1) 85% of employees are not engaged or are actively disengaged, and 2) As a result of this, approximately $7 trillion of productivity is lost every year.
The Trust Factor: Cultivating an Approachable Leadership Team
Trust is a little word that carries with it a gigantic impact. Let’s talk about how we build and cultivate trust in the workplace.