As an extraordinary leader, you can take advantage of this special time of year to boost employee engagement and get things off to a great start! Here are five tips to help you make this year the best one ever in terms of employee engagement!
As a leader, start off this year with a team activity that can build team productivity for the entire year! Forget about the useless task of encouraging the team to write resolutions. It’s a waste of precious time, and does not inspire anyone for any substantive amount of time.
Leadership Giving Challenge-31-day Challenge calendar to build a Mentoring Mindset for Extraordinary Leaders
Laser Focus Moments are your secret weapon as an Extraordinary Leader! Discover what they are, and how powerful they can be to help you lead at your highest and best.
While research identifies the causes of employee burnout, the “fixes” by leaders do not address the main issues. What can you do as a leader?
Research proves there are incredible benefits—personally and organizationally—that come from an Optimistic Spirit. 3 strategies for leadership success!
As an Extraordinary Leader, use Reframing to move yourself and your team through frustrating, difficult, emotional, or dysfunctional situation and thrive!
Five tips leaders can take to turn the ‘not-so-engaged’ employee into an ‘actively engaged employee’ and reap huge bottom-line benefits.
Every leader needs to understand Surge Capacity and its impact on the productivity of the team! Discover the AC-DC Model as a powerful tool to revitalize your team and boost productivity.
A Mentoring Mindset is one of the most valuable core abilities a leader can develop. Discover how to develop a Mentoring Mindset so you see every situation as a learning opportunity; stay in touch with what your people are doing, and casually or intentionally provide guidance, wisdom, skills, recommendations, and resources to grow the professional maturity and ability of all your people.
If you’ve ever regretted something you’ve done or said as a leader, here’s a secret weapon for you! Laser Focus Moments are proven to provide benefits to improve your ability to be extraordinary! Read More.
How to empower your people and help them be accountable — and engaged.
As long as people have words and emotions, we will have difficult encounters in the workplace that sabotage success! In fact, one of the biggest reasons I am called in to organizations is to facilitate team building sessions to help people understand each other better and learn how to be extraordinary as a team, even if team members don’t necessarily “like” each other.
What masks are keeping you from being an authentic and effective leader? Use the MASK formula to move from “mass confusion” to Mask-Unfusion!
Five tips leaders can learn to give positive feedback to employees. Harvard research says employees need 6:1 ratio of positive to negative feedback, but we never teach leaders how to do it effectively. Here are five tips to build the skill of giving feedback to improves productivity and employee engagement.
The best leaders who coach, mentor and empower use these 8 strategies.
We are strong believers in the value of finding joy in your work. Here’s a poster and some questions you might want to use during your next team meeting.
Here’s a quick quiz based on research-driven characteristics, that can help you see if you are an “Engagement-Driven Leader.” Check yourself out, then come back and identify the characteristics where you need help. Create a personal action plan to begin developing your leadership skills, so you can truly be extraordinary!
Sometimes the best lessons about employee engagement come to us from children! Here are my five biggest take-aways from watching my grandson at play with children he did not know. I invite you to consider integrating into your leadership style as you build an environment conducive to engagement and commitment.
Silos destroy employee engagement and eats away at the bottom line of an organization. Here are 6 tips to smash the silos in your department.
Are you an Engagement-Driven Leader? Use this 12-point checklist to see how you measure up!
Research reports that 8% of the global workforce is made up of “workplace prisoners” – actively disengaged employees who aren’t happy, but won’t leave. How you can break free of yours!
Extraordinary leaders are always looking for ways to get their employees more engaged, enthusiastic, productive, and passionate about their jobs. Here are four ways leaders can create an employee engagement-rich environment.
Are Employee Engagement Surveys really helpful? In my work as an Impact Consultant specializing in Extraordinary Leadership, I have seen Employee Engagement Surveys used as a “have to do” exercise rather than a strategic part of the business strategy. Let’s get rid of the surveys and try this technique.
Leaders, try this new model for strategic planning, new product development, and other change-oriented situations. Replace Swot with GROW!
