Find Your Corner Pieces First
How do you start a 1,000 piece jigsaw puzzle? You find the corner pieces. The corner pieces are your anchors, and once you’ve identified them, you start working on...
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You Go First
When something’s broken on our team or in our organization, we typically look beyond ourselves for the fix. We want our leader or our leader’s leader or the leaders...
Empowering Minds Want to Know!
This week our Impacting Leaders team conducted a training for a group of leaders. These leaders not only lead others but they are also followers… well, aren’t we all?...
Get Things Done Through Others
John Craig said, “No matter how much work you can do, no matter how engaging your personality may be, you will not advance far in business if you cannot...
4 Actions for Tearing Down Silos
Silos. Turf wars. Unhealthy competition. They’re present at some level in nearly every organization, regardless of their size. And they drive us crazy! They slow progress, prevent teamwork, and...
How to Deal with Drama at Work
Every workplace has its fair share of drama, and that’s not always a bad thing. Changes – like new employees, new clients, or growth in general – shake up...
Got Politics? 8 More Actions for Dealing with Politics at Work
As we discussed last week, politics are alive and well even in the smallest of companies. Sometimes politics is disguised as “drama.” Whatever we call it, we usually know...
4 Ways to Deflate Your New Enthusiastic Teammate
Few things mirror that excitement you feel when after three or four interviews, you’re offered the job. A new job with a new team at a new company holds...
The Best Player vs. The Most Valuable Player
So I started a conversation on Facebook a few weeks ago, and I can’t stand not to dig a little deeper into the subject. On New Year’s Day, two sports commentators were debating...
4 Things to Consider Before You Hire
With new growth goals and budgets for the new year, many leaders are preparing to hire new teammates. So when adding to a team, which is more important –...