To be an effective leader, it's essential to embody these 6 key leadership values. Strong leadership can only be achieved with strong values. Sadly, these values are often underestimated, but they are what truly distinguish a GOOD leader from a BAD one.As a leader, when you align your leadership with the six essential values, you’re not only doing what’s best ...

Six Critical Leadership Values for GREAT Leaders

Everyone makes mistakes, we hear this all the time, right?  Some mistakes are bigger or more meaningful than others, but when the following most common leadership mistakes are made, they are more fatal and could have easily been avoided.Lets dive deep into the top 10 most common leadership mistakes, as these can prove a pivotal point in leadership as far ...

10 Most Common Leadership Mistakes

Over the years, with lots of the material I have researched and studied, people believe that the most powerful skills relate to motivating people to action, such as persuasion or casting a vision. While those are valuable skills, the most important leadership skill is...believe it or not........ASKING QUESTIONS.As crazy as that may sound, here are 3 reasons why Asking Questions ...

Why Questions are the Most Important Leadership Skill?

Great leaders demonstrate 5 critical leader capacities or abilities. Each capacity is necessary, but it takes all 5 working together to be a GR8 leader. More importantly, the 5 essential leader capacities work best with a firm foundation of the 6 Critical Leader Values. Thomas Edison stated, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” No doubt, execution is a critical part of leadership, ...

5 of the Most Critical Leader Capacities

Great teams and collaborative results are essential for most organizations. However, a significant challenge hangs over all teams, and the best teams address this challenge directly.If you haven't read The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni, I highly recommend it. He offers valuable insights into five key mistakes that can undermine teams and teamwork. Below is his list, ...

Great Teams Tackle the PROBLEM Head-On!

When you engage your team in developing your company's purpose, it helps them truly internalize it and make it a part of who they are. To ensure your team not only understand but also live your company’s purpose, engage them in the process of creating it from the start. This way, the purpose becomes deeply ingrained in their daily work ...

Engage Your Team in Developing Purpose

Listening takes practice if you want to do it well. But, it is difficult when you allow simple things to prevent you from listening. Few consider listening a critical leadership skill, much less one of the two most essential skills. Do you know why this is important? Without it, you have much less chance to see inside another person's mind. And when ...

You Don’t Listen! 5 reasons why you don’t listen