With respect to an issue related to COVID-19, a colleague recently emailed me “Thanks for your leadership on this.” My immediate reaction was “I don’t really feel like I’m leading anything. I feel like I am riding in a whitewater raft – and the waves are treacherous!” The current environment is a lot like a whitewater raft voyage: *Lots of unknowns – who knows what is … [Read more...] about “Leading” a Whitewater Raft
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Improve Your Decision-Making
It’s up to you. The facts and arguments for each alternative have been explained. The correct answer is not obvious, but someone has to make the call. And it’s you. What do you do? New research* from Harvard Business Review provides six practices that can help you develop your judgement and capability to make better decisions: 1. Listen Attentively, Read … [Read more...] about Improve Your Decision-Making
Retaining Your Best Talent
The continued low employment rate means that even some of your talented team members who are not looking to leave, could get recruited away. This is the topic of a recent article* in The Wall Street Journal with some suggestions on how to make sure you have given them reasons to stay. Here are some of the author’s ideas: *Improve Their Space. So many organizations have … [Read more...] about Retaining Your Best Talent
Fostering Equity & Inclusion
Creating a more equitable and inclusive workforce and society is the right thing to do. Period. It also turns out that studies show “well-managed diverse groups outperform homogeneous ones and are more committed, have higher collective intelligence, and are better at making decisions and solving problems.”* Today’s leaders and managers need to learn how to foster equity … [Read more...] about Fostering Equity & Inclusion
Coaching Your Team
In the olden days . . . once you were identified as being great at what you did you were made a manager. You taught others how to do it right – just like you did. It was a command and control world. As it turns out, this was never a good idea because you did not let others flourish by using their natural talents to create their own “best way” – but it is an even more … [Read more...] about Coaching Your Team