12 Rules for Building a Thriving Virtual Team
As I noted in 5 Actions for Leading a Virtual Team, the Impacting Leaders team is comprised of mostly virtual employees. I asked my team to think about the...
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Are You Weary?
It’s Monday! Hopefully you’re back at the office and feeling refreshed from an exciting or relaxing weekend. But take a moment and think what you have in store for...
5 Actions for Leading a Virtual Team
Impacting Leaders is a virtual organization, and this setup works well for us and our clients. The flexibility has allowed me to cherry-pick the people on my team because...
7 Tips for Defending Your Teammate
Leaders eventually find themselves in the position where they must defend someone on their team. Stepping up to bat for our teammates is an expectation of the position. Even...
3 Ways Your Words Matter
Train says it best in the lyrics of the song, “Words:” Words, they’ll try to shake you, don’t let them break you or stop your world from turning. When...
Organizational Rigidness
L ast week we discussed our top 6 picks for performance review mishaps that leaders fall into when giving performance reviews. While leaders are responsible for making the review...
3 Things to Say Instead of “I’m Sorry”
Are you a person whose knee-jerk reaction is to apologize any time you make a mistake? I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that in...
5 Actions for Living Out Self Accountability
We often frame accountability in light of what should happen to other individuals or organizations after the fact – after they’ve made a bad choice or acted irresponsibly or...
Bridge the Gap in Your Growing Organization
Most growing organizations, especially entrepreneurial ones, have two distinct generations that reside within them – and no, I’m not talking about Baby Boomers and Generation X or Xers and...
Don’t Let Pride Hold You Back
Pride. Some view it as arrogance, while others see it as confidence. Some say it’s a necessary leadership trait, while others believe it’s a characteristic we can all do...