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How to Get Leaders Focused on Growth
Is your company growing faster than your leaders? Do you need to inspire them to keep up without creating defensiveness? Try the 3 Questions Framework
What to do when your boss won’t take no for an answer
Ruthlessly prioritizing and enforcing boundaries is important to productivity, but what if your boss won’t take “no” for an answer? Five steps to reduce the impact of having to do too much.
5 Ways to Say No
While you might argue that the word NO is a full sentence, I don’t recommend using it that way if you want to promote good team dynamics or ensure a strong reputation. Here are five ways to say “no” to contribute to a happier, healthier, and more productive team.
Are You Saying Yes Too Often?
Before you can get a handle on your workload and find opportunities to say NO to the obligations that are slowing you down, you need to understand why you’ve been saying yes.
Is it time to start saying “no?”
Saying “yes” to too many things erodes trust, reduces the quality of your work, and burns you out. To launch this year’s NOvember campaign, here’s an audit you can do to identify your greatest opportunities to say, “NO!”
Using Personality Assessments with Your Team
Teams often use assessment tools like the Hogan or DiSC to promote insight among individuals. Unfortunately, these tools can be misused and hinder rather than help. Here’s a charter you can use to encourage team members to use personality and style tools wisely.
Different Approaches to Decision-making Cause Friction
Individual differences in decision-making style can be a significant source of friction among teammates. Beyond that, they can also lead to processes that significantly over- or under-engineer solutions. Here’s how to approach decision-making to optimize the tension and minimize the friction.
To Multitask or Not to Multitask?
Differences in our personalities and styles should create the diversity that makes teams great. Sadly, different styles often cause friction. How to navigate differences in attention management on your team.
Is it Always Helpful to be Empathetic?
Do you try to be helpful to colleagues who come to you for support? Does it ever backfire in a completely unexplainable and exasperating way? It’s probably because you have a different definition of “help” than they do. Understanding different forms of support will reduce this common source of friction.
Tired of People Being Distracted and Disrespectful?
People are becoming increasingly distracted these days. Their distraction is making meetings less productive, making us feel like they aren’t paying attention, and contributing to a general sense of anxiety about how much is going on. Here’s some thoughts on how you can set yourself and your team up to manage distractions before they cause serious problems.
Are You Taking Steps to Prevent Burnout?
Summer is over, and we’re staring down a long run of hectic work between now and the December holidays. What’s your plan to bolster your energy reserves, mitigate stress, and avoid burnout? Here are a few sources of energy you can tap into during your average overcommitted week.
A Personalized Approach to Feeling Less Overwhelmed
Most of us will experience the feeling of being overwhelmed at some point. But each of us has our own version of how we manifest that stress. This article provides personalized approaches and coping strategies based on your specific version of overwhelm.