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Your Leadership Impact

Create a Legacy You’re Proud of Each individual leaves a legacy. But leaders have a unique opportunity. We have the chance to leave a deep impact on the tight-knit group that we may spend years leading. Regardless of whether it is intentional or not, you will leave a lasting impact on your team. And it’s…

Inner Game vs. Outer Game

Which One is Holding You Back? What truly makes a good leader? When most people think about leadership, they picture the visible responsibilities: giving feedback, leading meetings, making decisions, managing conflict… But that’s just the outer game of leadership—the actions others can see. If you are trying to improve your leadership skills, it’s common to…

Companies are Failing Their Teams

The Top Five Excuses for Not Developing Talent Companies are in a crisis of their own making right now. At a recent produce industry event, I had a troubling conversation with a CEO. “All of our senior leaders are planning to retire in the next 3-5 years,” he told me. “But I’m worried about what…

New Managers Aren’t Trained in Leadership

Addressing the Leadership Skill Gap “When I first went from regular employee to manager, I knew exactly how to step into my new role and lead my team…” …said no leader ever!!! More often, it’s the opposite. You step into your role, then maybe you start to realize… “I didn’t get trained for this.” “I’m…

Control Kills Motivation

How To Motivate Without Micromanaging Many newer managers tend to swing wildly in one direction or another in terms of how much control they exert over their teams. Some go overboard on the “hands-off” approach. They’ve heard about or experienced the problems of micromanaging. What often happens is they show up as overly-trusting managers, not…

Is This Killing Team Creativity?

The Hush Around Conflict Earlier this year, the hottest debate on LinkedIn was centered around something extremely trivial: the em dash. If you post on LinkedIn, you probably saw some of the heated comments between the “em dashes are indicators of AI” and “I used em dashes long before AI” crowds. We might dismiss this…

One-on-one Took a Negative Turn?

5 Tips to Salvage the Meeting With so much uncertainty in the world right now turning up the heat and pressure, employees are having a tough time. So if you’ve noticed your teammates being stressed or disengaged—now more than ever is a time for patience and understanding! As leaders, we face the same challenges that our…

30 Second Rule

A Networking Plan That Works You’re at an event. You see an industry leader that you really want to connect with. You have a few seconds to catch their attention. What do you do??? Last week I shared my 3-step planning framework for a successful networking event. (If you missed it, click here to catch…

Get My 3-step Networking Framework for Events

More Conversations, More Connections You probably have at least one business event on your calendar right now. Have you thought about… ➡️ Who you want to meet? ➡️ How you will reach out to them? ➡️ What you will say when you see them? If you don’t have answers to these questions, you need to…

Learning to Lead Through Connection…

Not Just Authority “Why won’t they just do their jobs?” I think we’ve all had a frustrated moment like this at some point! When my client Rob* asked me this question, he was reaching the end of his patience. Rob was a highly analytical, black-and-white thinker. When given a job, he simply did it, earning…