Did you just complete your annual performance reviews at the end of the year? If so, congratulations! No? Then, that probably means you’re still dreading it’s that time of the year! How often have you heard a business leader grimace…
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Eight Strategies To Create Your Always, Ongoing Performance Management Process
Posted in Accelerated workplace, Accomplishment, Accountability, Achievement, Action Planning, business, Change management, Coaching, Collaboration, Commitment, Communication, Executive Coaching, Leadership, Performance Management Process, Performance Review, success, Uncategorized Tagged with: executive coaching, Leadership, Organization Development, personal growth, productivity
Feedback? Feed-Forward . . . Telling Your Family Business Leaders What You Really Think!
I like to think of feedback more like “feed-forward.” You’ve seen the concept of “pay it forward” in movies and commercials over the years, and feedback can have the same effect. When offered with the right intention and skills, feedback…
Posted in Coaching, Commitment, Constructive Feedback, corrective action, Development Dimensions International, Executive Coaching, Family, Family Business, Family Business Leaders, Family Business Owner, family relationships, Leadership, Leadership Skills, Negative Feedback, Next-Generation Leader, NextGen Leader, Pay It Forward, STAR Model
Stop-Start-Continue Your Way to Success in 2016
We all know about making New Year’s Resolutions at the beginning of the year. Some of us even do it thinking that this will be the year those resolutions will magically turn into personal commitments we actually honor over time…
Posted in Albert Einstein, Bert Lance, Commitment, Goals, habit, insanity, Intentions, New Year's Resolution, Personal commitment, Resolutions, Stop-Start-Continue, strategic intention, success Tagged with: goal, habit, Motivation, new year, resolution, results
Three Simple Steps to Declaring It – and Making It – Your Best Year Ever!
Happy New Year! Was 2013 a great year for you? Maybe not so much. Either way, are you ready to make 2014 your best year ever? As my good friend used to tell his four-year-old son, “It’s good to want.”…
Recognizing “I Have a Dream” 50 Years after Rev Martin Luther King
Fifty years ago today, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his unforgettable “I Have a Dream” speech to 250,000 supporters, punctuating the 1963 March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Well, on this day 50 years later, I had the…
Declare It To Achieve It and You Can Have Anything
For much of my adult life, I’ve had thoughts about the future I have wanted to create for myself. The stuff I wanted to have. The relationships. The professional accomplishments. Wanting those things for my future is nice. At times,…
Great Leaders are Just Like Great Parents According to Daniel Pink
While I do not have any blood relatives as members of my firm making it a more traditional family business, I have always known that my intention for my business was to have it be more than just a company.…
No Coach, I Just Wanna Play!
For the past 8 years, I have always enjoyed watching my son Dylan play soccer. Yes, I enjoy watching my daughter Amanda play too. Dylan just has such a passion for the sport that enables him to play at an…
Commitment, Having Integrity and Being Accountable to Our Words
The nice thing about being self-employed is that I don’t have a boss. In my experience, one of the most challenging parts of being self-employed, however, is that I don’t have a boss! For more than 10 years now, I’ve…
Posted in Accountability, Action, Al Capone, Commitment, Elliot Ness, Integrity, Intentions, Kevin Costner, Leadership, Sean Connery, The Untouchables
