Building the Perfect Team

Few people will ever match UCLA Coach John Wooden’s legendary career, he won over 80% of the games he coached in, to include 10 NCAA men’s basketball championships, and when he passed away in 2010 at the age of 99 he was revered as a role model.  John C. Maxwell called him the finest example … Read more

Balance

The topic of today’s Two-Minute Leadership Talk, our final video in The Big Six® series, is “Balance.” What do I mean by that? I’m talking about the balance between the two spheres of Personal and Professional life. It’s more than just balancing the personal and the professional, though: it’s about maintaining energy. In this video, … Read more

Trust and Empower

In this Two Minute Leadership Talk video blog, the topic is “Trust and Empower.” I’ll discuss the importance of being willing to “hand over the keys” to your team. If you can’t step away without feeling uncomfortable, you may need to rethink how you’ve trained your organization.’ You can view the video blog here: This … Read more

The Balance Beam

I’ve always admired the gymnasts who could master the balance beam, because they seem so agile, conducting complex movements on a 4-inch wide strip of wood (to be precise, Wikipedia says the actual width is 3.9”).  These athletes display remarkable grace and calm in the midst of what must be intense pressure to achieve perfection … Read more

Listen: A Two Minute Leadership Talk

After you’ve set your organization’s goals, the next step is to listen. In this Two Minute Leadership Talk video blog, I’ll discuss in detail the steps your leadership needs to learn and demonstrate in listening. In becoming better listeners, you will create a good standard for your entire organization to follow. The above video, “Listen Two … Read more

Power Questions

Most of us were raised as leaders to “figure it out,” right?  Later in life, when we didn’t have enough information to make good decisions, we defaulted back to this guidance.  And not much good came of those decisions. So now that we’re in senior leadership positions, why do we give others the same instructions? … Read more