Improving your Team Performance Thriving together as a Team Your team should be more than 1+1 = 2. Coordinating, managing, and motivating your team often eats up time that could have been spent getting work done. It starts seeming like having a team makes work more complicated rather than easier. So how do you create…
Improve hiring for your Agency INTERVIEW BETTER. HIRE SMARTER. There’s nothing that does more for company performance than hiring great people. Yet, for many agency owners, hiring feels like a black box. You spend a ton of time and resources selecting and interviewing candidates, making offers, and onboarding new employees. Then, six months later, the…
Developing your leadership mastery Healthy leaders grow strong teams. The most powerful thing you can do to improve your business performance is to improve your leadership mastery. The next thing? Improve the capacity of others to lead. Leadership encompasses many skills – strategic decision-making, communication, time management, people management, relationship building, training, and so on….
I’m in the middle of a coaching call with an agency owner, and we’ve gotten down to the root of a problem that’s been plaguing him for a while. He now sees clearly what needs to be done, but it’s not going to be easy…he falls silent as he contemplates his choices. “I’m not sure…
Do you ever have a day that makes you want to give up? Looking back at the end of the day, maybe it would have been better if you’d just taken a day off. Sure, you’d have more to do on Monday, but at least you wouldn’t have all these messes to clean up! You…
Humans are pretty bad at decision-making. No, really, left to our own devices, we’re biased, take shortcuts, overestimate our abilities, and gloss over complexity, resulting in wrong decisions roughly half the time. Worse yet, we’re terrible at evaluating our own ideas. We want to be “right,” and we do an amazing job selecting data to…
One of the exercises that I often assign to clients is to create their “ideal week.” By sitting down and thinking carefully about what you need to get done in a week/month and then blocking off time to get those things done, at a time when you have the optimal energy to complete them, you…
How to Get Feedback from Your Team Feedback is an essential part of leadership. Giving feedback is essential to develop individuals and teams, and to boost their performance. However, many leaders (especially those with little leadership experience) tend to forget the importance of receiving feedback. I’ve seen this a lot with my clients. As you…
During one of my one-to-one coaching calls last week, a client said something that I’ve heard many times before: I’ve been so busy lately that I’ve been putting off writing proposals and now I have like 5 – 6 people who I promised proposals to — but I just don’t want to do it. So,…
Our last conversation talked about how success doesn’t make you happy, but it might increase your income! If you find yourself with more disposable income, what can you do with money to improve happiness? Thankfully, we have academics who have researched this question, and their findings were surprising (to me). This study used lower-income and more…