Announcing My Free Webinar: Supercharge Your Employee One-on-Ones
This free webinar offers 12 tips to make 1-on-1s the most productive time in your week.
My Gratitude Project 2024
Welcome to My Gratitude Project 2024 where I am celebrating the small things I’m grateful for every day in November. Nov. 2 Every year in November, I practice 30 days of gratitude.* Taking time to be grateful about what is going right grounds me and helps me focus on what I want more of in my life. Amid epidemic levels of anxiety and uncertainty, practicing gratitude is something we can all do to remind ourselves of what is good. Beauty,…
5 Tips for Better Leadership with Emotional Intelligence
If you want to increase your emotional intelligence, try these 5 tips for improving team performance. What most people want to know is how does emotional intelligence make people more successful, and more to the point, how can you raise the EQ of yourself or your team. There are a lot of things you can do to improve how you motivate and manage your team. My new blog on LinkedIn explores 5 simple techniques for becoming more effective as a…
What is Psychological Safety at Work and How Does it Improve Performance?
Psychological safety at work helps teams catch and correct mistakes—without blame, shame, or retaliation. Key Takeaways Psychological safety at work is the key to an office culture where everyone brings their best game every day. Let’s start with a definition. Psychological safety at work is the assurance that you will not be retaliated against or blamed for mistakes on the job. It describes an office culture where people accept that: Psychological safety at work has been in the news lately.…
Five Tips for High-Stakes Deals Demonstrated by Evan Gershkovitz’s Fierce Mother
The historic prisoner swap offers a case study in what it takes to succeed at making complex, high-stakes deals. For most businesses, high-stakes deals involve not lives but livelihoods, affecting dozens or even hundreds of individuals. Negotiations are often fierce. Looking at the prisoner swap completed on Aug. 1, 2024 in hindsight, there are a few key principles that underlie complex deals of all kinds and what it takes to break through when you are dealing with tough people on…
How to Double Team Results: Boost Trust Like this Manager Did
Without the advantage of trust, the smartest, most experienced team will become distracted by conflict and division. You need it to inspire your team, find consensus, and bring out everyone’s best efforts.