Every leader loves it when their team performance is humming along nicely. But, if this is always the case, you may be losing out on a great learning opportunity through “productive failure.” There are many goals that you really do not want a person or team to fail at – such as processing payroll on time or submitting a required report to a government agency. And many … [Read more...] about Use Productive Failure for Team Growth
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5 Questions Before You Decide
Life is fast paced and leaders make lots of decisions. In this hectic environment we live in, sometimes we can move a little too fast. Following is a quick checklist to give yourself – based on a recent Harvard Business Review article – as you go through the decision-making process: 1. Are There Any Alternatives We Have Overlooked? My rule of thumb is to always … [Read more...] about 5 Questions Before You Decide
Escape from Meeting Hangover
We have all survived terrible meetings. You know that feeling you have after a bad meeting where you are exhausted and unmotivated? It turns out that there is a term for it: Meeting Hangover. A recent article in Harvard Business Review reports a survey that shows 90% of workers have experienced this at least occasionally. Research also finds these root causes of bad … [Read more...] about Escape from Meeting Hangover
“Collective Merit”
Very few of us are hired by our employers as “individual performers.” Most of us are part of a team – a “collective.” With this in mind, when I have hired people in the past, I think about their individual merit and what they will contribute to the collective. Last semester, I provided students in one of my classes with the following scenario and questions: The Board … [Read more...] about “Collective Merit”
Build Your Resilience
As leaders, people watch us much more closely than we realize. We need to be role models of building our resilience so we can encourage others, and they will emulate us. In this way, we are building a resilient team. Here are things we can do to build our resilience. Many of these ideas are from a recent article in Harvard Business Review. *Begin by making this a … [Read more...] about Build Your Resilience