Leadership Lessons From New Zealand Road Signs
I recently returned from a trip to New Zealand—where the landscapes are breathtaking, the people are warm and generous, and yes, lamb is everywhere.
6 Tips for Better Internal Communication
One of the biggest challenges for organizations is speaking with a consistent and compelling voice. Silos abound, and even enterprises with a positioning platform find it difficult for their internal communication strategy to take hold in their organization.
Don’t Neglect Your Most Important Audience: Your Team
Enterprises spend millions on external branding, messaging and websites while neglecting their most important audiences–their own employees.
Want a Winning Meeting? Avoid the Disastrous ‘Facipulation’ Trap
Organizations sometimes invest in planning retreats for team building or exploring new solutions, when, in reality, they only want to convince the team to do what management wants. It’s an approach that devalues employees or partners and erodes trust.
How to Keep Disagreements from Veering toward Hate? Communicate.
Disagreements at work can be disastrous. Communication stops and projects get stymied and ugly feelings surface. This post offers tips for understanding why disagreements happen and how to mitigate.
The Secret of Workplace Harmony From Buddy The Dog
Some people might find it insulting to think that the behavior management techniques used on our canine friends work well on our colleagues, bosses, or associates. But they do. When you think about it, it is about finding common ground to live and work together in harmony. Here are three lessons from Buddy the Dog.
Do You Know Why People Stay at Your Organization?
What if leaders took the time to ask employees, why they stay. You’d learn a lot of valuable information about what is working. Checking in with folks about why they stick with you may avoid the exit interview.
6 Ways You Can Boost Your Workplace Culture
When looking for examples of great workplace cultures, construction trailers aren’t top of mind. But a recent experience visiting a soon-to-be completed hospital provides a powerful example of team building, accountability and results.
The Simple Truth to Avoid Communication Crashes
The communications patterns we learn from our families, and later interactions at school or university, on sports teams, at our first job, and from mass media, shape the way we see and react to the world. It’s within our families or our grade-school interactions that we develop patterns of communication that drive how we connect or don't with others. Understanding these patterns can prevent communications crashes.
Internal Communications Like Rodney Dangerfield Gets No Respect
They say that those closest to us are often the last to know things. Nowhere is that more true than within our own companies and organizations. Internal communications is often an afterthought.