What Does a High Performing Team Look Like? Part 1

I've got a two-parter for you, both focusing on High Performance Teams (HPT). This week's article will take you about 4 minutes to read. Now, many of you have been introduced to one of my favorite leadership diagrams, simply titled High Performance Teams (view below and in gallery). While I have my own way of … Continue reading What Does a High Performing Team Look Like? Part 1 →

The Healthy Uncomfortable

There is a certain zone of discomfort that you can push yourself into where growth and learning occurs, the following article tells you all about it.  Read time is about 7 minutes, I can't think of a better way to spend 420 seconds of your life. There is a lot of brain candy in this … Continue reading The Healthy Uncomfortable →

High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety. Here’s How to Create It.

Hello there! If you spend even a small amount of time reading about organizational health (and admit it, you can't get enough), you'll come across the concept of "psychological safety." What it is, if your group has it, or how to get it are popular topics of conversation. It just so happens that our model … Continue reading High-Performing Teams Need Psychological Safety. Here’s How to Create It. →

How Do We Grow? By Reaching Beyond Ourselves.

I stumbled across this gem just now (click here), an article about how to find moments of personal growth that result in us increasing our capacity for compassion.  The author not only gives you some big picture ideas to muse on, she offers some simple practices as well that you can start doing today if … Continue reading How Do We Grow? By Reaching Beyond Ourselves. →

The Next Time You Want to Complain at Work, Do This Instead

Frequently throughout the day, everyone engages in "Backwards Conversations" (aka monologues, or judgements, or blaming/shaming stories); it's a natural way to make meaning of a situation when you notice things aren't going the way you'd like them to. While some of these moments go nowhere, holding onto blaming stories and the negative emotions they generate … Continue reading The Next Time You Want to Complain at Work, Do This Instead →

Here’s the Key to Great Conversation in 1 Sentence

Ever felt like you, or someone you know, could use some help talking or listening to someone else talk for any reason? Wanda Thibodeaux is here for you; file her advice under Communication, Active Listening, Mutual Understanding, Listening for Understanding, and/or How To Be An Awesome Leader/Human Being That People Trust. ____________________________________________________________________________________________ Here's the Key … Continue reading Here’s the Key to Great Conversation in 1 Sentence →

How Humble Leadership Really Works

A key cornerstone of shared, facilitative leadership is that you use your power to empower. Creating opportunities for your team members to learn, grow, share ideas, affect change, and exercise their own decision-making is imperative to creating a high performance team. This is a marked shift from the management-mindset that we've all grown up with, … Continue reading How Humble Leadership Really Works →

Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers

I found another relevant Harvard Business Review article- this one made me think about the "leadership pipeline" and supervisors (although there is a lot of other good stuff in there). We are in the earliest stages of real, intentional leadership development, so part of that is looking at our hourly team to see who has … Continue reading Why the Most Productive People Don’t Always Make the Best Managers →