Top 10 Ways To Engage Reluctant Team Members

Engaging the Reluctant Team Member: A Proactive Approach

What’s an old-school way to engage reluctant team members? Hire a motivational speaker?  We all know that intrinsic motivation is far more powerful than sitting in a conference room while a guy in a nice suit yells “Live with passion!” at the top of his lungs. Needless to say, it’s time to modernize our approaches.  […]

4 Lessons Learned About Leading In-Person, Remote & Hybrid Teams

Many companies deployed remote teams to survive during the pandemic but, as restrictions lifted, a significant portion switched to a hybrid model. This created a new challenge for leaders. After all, leading an in-person team was difficult before the pandemic; leading three separate ones during and after the pandemic was downright overwhelming. As usual, though, […]

Why Structure is So Important to Leadership

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Have the right behaviors, but also the right structure. INOVATION IS THE CORNERSTONE for surviving and thriving in today’s world of V.U.C.A, Volitivity, Uncertainty, Complexity, Ambiguity; or what I describe in a white paper of the same name, The New Normal 2.0. To not be aware of nor respond to the seismic changes in our […]

Simple Ways to Improve Productivity

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Manage the Small Stuff, Like Email, for Big Returns THE AVERAGE WORKER SENDS AND RECEIVES 200+ email messages a day, interrupting phone calls, focused work time and personal conversations. And the sad thing is, we let it happen. Email interruptions can suck out up to 28 percent of our day, creating a $650 billion drag […]

Why the world needs intuition

I’d like you all to imagine you’re an engineer, working on a NASA project, to launch a shuttle into space.  Due to weather and other issues, the launch has been postponed 8 times, each costing NASA millions of dollars. The pressure is mounting to get this bird off the ground.  The date is January 28th, […]

Authentic Leadership Insights: A Conversation with Dean Newlund

This conversation with Dean Newlund covers leadership insights based on his years of experience as a leadership expert and trainer for large organizations. Dean is CEO of Mission Facilitators International, a 25-year-old boutique team-based development firm with offices in Phoenix and Bend. He has developed and facilitated hundreds of training programs for small to large […]

12 Things Even the Best Leaders Can Forget

John Rampton – Success.com  December 31, 2015 Leaders have a lot to do, so sometimes they forget things—important, big-picture things. Leaders might seem superhuman at times. They aren’t. They’re mortals, just like anyone else. And with a lot on their plates, caught up in the details of their role, they can forget to do things—big-picture […]

The New Normal 2.0: Leaders and Organizations can Thrive

Resources for Leaders in the New Normal 2.0

Many organizations will discover too late that survival mode is no longer adequate. A shift has occurred, requiring leaders to exercise more than situational awareness used to identify immediate short-term financial trends. Leaders in the New Normal 2.0 must open their eyes to emerging, even sometimes barely detectable, long-term shifts in the societal and global […]