Everyone has a natural genius. Unlocking it is the secret to accessing more of each team member’s energy and ideas. To help your leaders get the most from their teams, share our guide, 5 Ways to Multiply Your Team’s Natural Genius, based on research by bestselling author Liz Wiseman.
In the research for her bestselling book, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter, Liz Wiseman identified the nine most common Accidental Diminisher tendencies. These behaviors are often associated with being a strong individual performer or even a strong leader, but when overused or misapplied, they can shut down a team’s intelligence and contributions.
The best leaders are curious. But they don’t just ask a lot of questions. They ask the right questions — the kind that focus their team’s brainpower on the right problems.
Read our guide, How Effective Leaders Get Results: 7 Ways to be More Proactive, to learn how taking initiative in small, specific ways can help you reach your goals—for your team, your career, and your life.
Building a culture of trust starts with a shared vocabulary of simple, yet powerful phrases that leaders use to express gratitude, offer compassion, and provide support.
Leaders who engage team members with compassion and gratitude encourage them to trust one another and rally around each other and their leader to achieve desired outcomes.
Credible leaders know how to build the trust necessary to propel their organization — and the people in it — forward.
To help leaders in your organization develop this critical skill, share our tool, 7 Ways to Build Trust Between You and Your Team—A Toolkit for Leaders at All Levels.
The best communicators aren’t just good talkers; they’re also great listeners. When you listen well in person or over video meetings, you can connect more deeply with your team members, colleagues, and customers. You will learn more from others and they learn more from you.
Too many leaders set vague goals like “improve customer retention,” leaving their teams unsure of how well they’re doing or even exactly what they’re working toward. FranklinCovey has developed a simple but powerful formula to identify where you are today, where you want to go, and the deadline for reaching that goal.
Download our tool 4 Steps to Refine and Execute Your Team Goals and learn how to talk about goals in more specific and measurable ways.
The most powerful principles of human motivation are timeless, and they apply in all settings: in-person, remote, or hybrid. As the best leaders know, highly-engaged employees are playing a game that matters, and they’re winning.
Your organization’s success depends on strong individual performance in every role—especially during times of change and stress. By applying The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People®, you can build a culture of personal responsibility, optimal productivity, trust, cooperation, and creative problem-solving.
Principles of effective leadership that result in superior performance haven’t changed, but when some team members are co-located, some work from home, and even more follow a hybrid model, leaders must apply those principles differently.
If you’re like most hard-working professionals, you probably spend too much time putting out fires and not enough time pursuing your long-term goals.In times of uncertainty and stress, it’s even more important to be intentional about how you use your time, so you can respond to unforeseen events in effective ways.
Bias is a natural part of the human condition—of how the brain works. It affects how we make decisions, engage with others, and respond to various situations and circumstances (often limiting potential). Understanding bias helps leaders notice and adjust for it, cultivate meaningful connections, and choose courage to make real change and unleash their own and others’ potential.
It takes courage to stand up to bias and advocate for a welcoming and fair culture in your organization. But courage alone won’t ensure that you actually make a difference. We each have a part to play in making progress, and the strategies in this guide can help you make an impact.
Unconscious biases are, well, UNCONSCIOUS, which makes them hard to identify, much less know their true impact. Bias is a complex and sometimes controversial issue. Is it any wonder that there are so many misconceptions around what to do? Before you can take steps to operate more fairly and effectively at work, you need to get your bearings.
To learn how to keep every team member engaged—from anywhere—read our guide Help Your Team Thrive in the Age of Remote Work: 8 Tips to Boost Engagement, Collaboration, and Morale.
Whenever you have variability in performance, you have variability in results. The key to creating great results is institutionalizing high-performance behaviors at scale. By applying some basic truths about human motivation, you can turn average employees into high performers and typical teams into powerhouses. Moving your middle has dramatic results on your organization’s overall performance.
How you communicate a change to your team is critical to helping them understand and adapt. All change creates disruption, but leaders can minimize the amount of disruption through effective communication.
The leader’s role in change is to get results—and that happens through people. Leaders must help their teams process the changes swirling around them and chart a productive course to achieve success.
As a leader, your ability to adjust to new and shifting situations has a significant bearing on success for you and your team. Fortunately, adaptability isn’t something you either have or don’t have. Like any other skill, you can cultivate it over time.
Effective 1-on-1s are all about helping individual contributors be more successful. They provide an opportunity for individuals to form connections with their leader, share challenges, receive coaching, solve problems, and get feedback. When done right, 1-on-1s can be the most productive meeting of the week.
We all know the pain of sitting through boring, unorganized, and downright wasteful meetings. When you calculate the costs of unproductive meetings for your organization, it adds up fast. A little preparation can go a long way when making meetings more productive.
The expectations for leaders in the workforce are changing. Leadership today is much more than setting goals and dictating priorities. Your job as a leader is to connect your team to a greater sense of purpose and meaning at work.
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