MARK'S ARTICLES AND INSIGHTS
to help you build a functional, collaborative, aligned team
Tip: Separate Tactical from Strategic Meetings
If your leadership team meetings have become ineffective, boring, distracted, too long, or frustrating, remember to separate the tactical from the strategic.
Leadership is a Burden
While working with a group of leaders a few weeks ago, one leader remarked on the weight of responsibility she felt while leading her team. She was questioning whether it was a positive or negative that leadership felt like a heavy weight on her shoulders. Perhaps you feel the same way.
How to Align your Team and Organization
A couple of summers ago, my wife and I went kayaking on the Harpeth River and created a nice demonstration of the value of alignment.
Not so Obvious Ways to Build Trust on Teams
I made a short list of some not so obvious methods that some of the leaders of teams I’ve been working with have successfully used recently to build trust on their teams. Here they are.
How to Leverage Graduated Sharing to Build Trust on Your Team
I love to play and coach basketball. Back in the 2000’s, I remember wrapping up the last game in our city’s adult recreational basketball league. We had lost, again. The bottom line was that we did not have a foundation of trust and so nothing else mattered.
How to Handle the Unexpected
How can you feel confident in handling the unexpected when presenting to or interacting with senior leaders?
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