And what a great moment it was. What great flames of fury sprouted from the utter disaster that was your team’s crash landing when they tried to reach too high. Spectacular – this story will be told for years. It will be told for years because it will be the preamble to the greatest accomplishment your team will ever accomplish. Every team fails now and again, but the ones that are spectacular, that are borne…
It sounds like it would be, but it’s not. It’s about building future leaders. It’s about coaching others to take chances. It’s about guiding others through hard decisions, letting them make mistakes and helping them learn from them. It’s about shifting paradigms and worldviews to help people grow and improve. It’s about doing the work no one wants to do, so others can grow through doing the more visible, important work. It’s about putting aside…
Do you feel guilty when you ask someone the hard questions? When you really put it to them – not in a demeaning or rude way, but in a direct fashion where you need to know the answers in order to proceed? It’s odd isn’t it, how guilty we start to feel that we had the audacity to ask these questions? Maybe I was too hard? Did I come off too strong? What will they…
Think back to the best training session you ever attended. It could be one you attended, one that was held internally or maybe even one that you gave. What made it so special, what made it resonate with you and your team that when you left you all felt committed to take action and make something happen. What was the secret sauce in play? Now before you book your next training, hold it accountable to…
Anyone can come up with a good idea… even a semi-good idea… But can they execute on it? Can they put in all the work to make it happen? Can they deliver something so incredible that at the end of the day no one remembers the idea, but they remember the end result and the deliverable? Don’t get hung up on whether you thought up the next great idea of the century or if you…