Episode 3: The Pain Leaders and Employees Live With
On average, 51% of your employees are disengaged. Let’s fix that.
Organizational Health
Episode 1: Helping Leaders Create Authentic and Engaging Workplaces
Are you stuck in a job and or life story you despise? Through this podcast, I’d love to help you change your story into one you can be proud of and look back on with admiration and gratitude.
Healthier Teams Relieve Sunday Night Blues
I’ve noticed a particular challenge that the leaders and managers I work with face. I call it the Sunday Night Blues. It begins with mild anxiety on Sunday afternoon. It is not debilitating, but it is draining. The prospect of Monday morning is looming. Your full inbox is waiting. An unresolved conflict demands closure. An unhappy …
Leading Millennials in the Workplace: Embracing the Next Generation
“How do you manage these millennials?” Questions about leading millennials in the workplace are rarely asked without a tone of frustration. Established leaders are frustrated with the perceived lack of strong work ethic in the post-collegiate labor pool. The approach to work ethic for baby boomers is vastly different from the approach of millennials and the emerging …
The Power of Process: No Magic Beans
Do you remember the story of Jack and the Beanstalk? In the classic children’s fairy tale, Jack trades his valuable, but slow-producing, resource (the cow) for the get-rich-quick promise of a peddling shyster pushing magic beans. In the adventure that follows, Jack nearly loses his life in a battle with the giant on the other …
Listening to Improve Performance and Engagement
Listening well may be the simplest key to improving your team’s engagement and performance. Value is Conferred by Listening Most of my clients can easily rehearse the idea, “people only feel valued to the degree that they feel heard.” In the pursuit of creating a culture where people feel valued above process and product, we …
Trust: The Art of Thinking Small(town)
I live in a small town in rural South Carolina. Most of my client work is in the larger regional markets of Charleston, Charlotte, and Asheville. I love coming home to Hartsville. Matters of business, politics, and religion are still hashed out over bad coffee and good sausage. It is not unusual to find executives from Sonoco …
Core Values: Clarifying Values for Your Organization
What are the core values around which your team aligns? Can you easily rehearse the behaviors that you and your team have agreed to expect from each other? If you can’t quickly and clearly define your core values and behaviors, don’t sweat yet. You aren’t alone. Most of the teams I work with initially balk at …