Ignoring Problem Behaviors
This week, ignore an irritating but not destructive behavior while watching for a positive behavior that you would like to see expand in its place.
Rewarding the Right Behaviors
Defining powerful, impactful behavior and recognizing / rewarding it, will help you accelerate success in your team, department, and organization.
What Puppy Training Can Teach You About Leading and Managing
As humans, our brains are both quite different from puppy brains and not so very different from puppy brains.
Using Conflict to Increase Innovation
The more you motivate your team to challenge ideas, the greater the likelihood that you will acquire innovative and creative ideas from your team.
Managing Workplace Conflicts: Shifts in Behavior
You, your team, and your organization are not dysfunctional because you have conflict – conflict is a part of being human.
It’s All About Teamwork
In the last couple of weeks, we’ve been talking about leadership, and how to handle a situation if you become labeled the problem, and then how to stay engaged and not take others’ actions and reactions personally. Today, we’d like to continue the conversation with some thoughts about the importance of teamwork. While personal talents and individual contributions are vital elements of organizational success, your ability to engage collaboratively on a team, and contribute to a successful team outcome is…
It’s Not Personal
Last week, we talked about how to handle a situation if you become labeled the problem. We heard from many of you that similar scenarios had played out in your lives and that you were hurt by the experience. So today, we’re expanding last week’s post to talk more about this issue. We know it doesn’t feel this way, but it’s important to remember that most of the time other people’s actions and reactions are not personal to you. Other…
What to Do If You’re Labeled: THE PROBLEM
As coaches for over 20 years, in businesses of all varieties, we’ve seen many examples of people who have concerns about someone else’s behavior; and yet, they themselves are seen and experienced as “the problem” in the office. How can that be? Let’s take a look at Janet. Janet is a confident and competent businesswoman who came to us on the brink of being let go. She was distressed and angry, and she was looking for an ally to figure…
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