‘Winning? Who desires that? Gross!’ In this week’s post we’ll chat about why you can’t have passion when creating a losing culture. Before I dive in, let us recap some of the key ingredients needed to make failure a success. The Perfect Ingredients for A Losing Culture *Recipe serves 1 to 1000+ Employees 2 cups…
“Believing in yourself means knowing a good day makes for a good week, a good week can make a great month and a great month can become the best year! But it all starts today! It all starts NOW!” Belief is a necessary companion in the business world. Without it, we question ourselves, our leadership choices,…
Recently, I was consulting with a sales professional, and we were discussing his success, or lack thereof, with attracting new clients. He had a serious challenge with landing new prospects, they would often avoid meetings with him or were simply unresponsive. Understandably, he was pretty broken up about it and quite demotivated. A career in…
I was catching up the other with one of my freelancers who seemed on the down and outs. After getting her to talk, she explained that in one of her other jobs, the boss was not holding the entire team accountable. It was well known, even within their HR, that the boss heavily practiced selective…
Last week, we spoke about the Great Resignation and its impact on you, a fearless leader in the middle. This week, I want us to take a step back and adjust our lens. We’re now in the employees’ shoes and my question to you is, given the choice, which boss would you choose? Is it…
Last week I got into a deep conversation with a few colleagues about the ‘Great Resignation’. As a business owner, keynote speaker, and executive coach, this trend is something that I’ve remained cognizant about, especially around its impact on leaders in the middle (LIMs). In fact, as recently as two weeks ago on this blog,…
Too often emails are sent with the word urgent in the title. Frankly, I’ve found the matter in the email rarely is actually urgent and I firmly believe this term is quite overused in the workplace lexicon. As a leader in the middle (LIM), my time is limited, so I tend to ask, “but is…
Recently, someone on my team was looking through my archive of articles when they came across my old post, ‘Three Reasons Employees’ Don’t Meet Their Bosses Expectations.’ They reached out and started to pepper me with questions on how they could work through some of the challenges they have encountered with their own employees. While…
Everything we do as a leader in the middle is about choice. Nathan Jamail, Keynote Speaker I was recently thumbing through my book, Serve Up, Coach Down, when I came across chapter that made me pause for a moment. In the chapter, ‘Choose Wisely: Sacrifice Versus Decision’, I share how my values evolved as…
“Guys, I don’t have the power to make decisions. They do. All I am is to be a highly paid sales representative.” (Definitely NOT a quote by me!) Above are some famous last words uttered by a past manager of mine. After this, no matter how I tried, I never looked at him the…