Your hippocampus is the part of your brain that stores all your past successes and failures and the STORIES your brain has attached to them. Every time an event happens in your life your brain reviews it as positive or negative BASED on the past experience that most closely correlates. In other words, you are always [...]
People will work harder for you if they feel the work they do is valued and they feel respected. To do this you need to make sure employees feel you truly listen to them. High-level leaders work to serve their team by clearing pathways so they can do great work. Check how good of a listener [...]
And it is not what you think. I have watched over a dozen companies involved in mergers or acquisitions and the majority do not succeed in the vision they had when they joined. So why is that? It is not that they didn’t do their financial due diligence. That I see happen time and again. The [...]
I am amazed at what most leaders do NOT DO when they first hire a person. See I think this one thing is the MOST IMPORTANT and should be done on the first day of the new hire. What is it? You should spend time on what are the values and principles that you operate by [...]
The reason most people hate tough feedback is they feel demolished by it. It is like they visualize you sitting in a room and judging them as inadequate. So, the usual “sandwich” approach doesn’t work. The recipient is skeptical and doubts what you said. Instead of focusing on what you need to say, focus your energy [...]
Unbeknownst to the speaker of that phrase, what you have really said to your brain is, “I don’t want to know if that happens because I don’t know what I can do about it.” You instead want to get your entire team thinking, “If that does happen, I know we can handle it.” Once the brain [...]
What if I told you, you could really make 2021 your luckiest year ever? I know it seems hokey, doesn’t it? But luck is created, it is not the random change you think. Just check out the book The Luck Factor. I know I completed the book and then decided to change my luck in regards [...]
I know it sounds silly. I mean, we ought to know exactly why we do what we do, however, I find that most people don’t know the underlying belief that is driving them to behave and think the way they do. For example-we have worked with... A VP that was about to get fired after 25 [...]
Have you ever made a New Year’s Resolution only to break it within 30 days? Have you ever so desperately wanted a goal but find it keeps alluding you? See, affirmations and goals are not enough to make a change. Nor does will power play into making lasting change. Lasting change comes from changing the internal [...]
It seems logical that someone that has been a leader for many years and moves up to the next level should be just fine without coaching, right? But here is what I see happen. Companies come to us saying things like “Amanda was our rockstar. Now we just promoted her again and she is floundering. We [...]
