Hot Topic Friday: April 24

Happy Friday! Here are my April 24 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Try this technique to connect more meaningfully during virtual meetings. And, how old are you emotionally? Let’s talk about it.

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You Are REALLY Starting to Bug Me!

Who’s feeling a little bit more irritated, impatient and “bugged” by family, co-workers, work and life at the moment? You’re not alone. Here’s some ways to handle it.

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Hot Topic Friday: April 17

Happy Friday! Here are my April 17 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Here are some exciting post-pandemic predictions about work, and how companies can use imagination to put a lot of life back into their operations.

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Can We Have Happiness Right Now?

Honestly, we’re all aware this pandemic really sucks. So, are you really happy? Pretty happy? How about, not too happy at all? Here is some valuable research about how to retain happiness through purpose, work, family, friends and love.

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Hot Topic Friday: April 10

Happy Friday! Here are my April 10 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. How do you think your leadership will be remembered during these times? And here are some practical tips for keeping engagement high during Zoom/virtual meetings.

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Shifting Gears to the UPSIDE

I’ve just realized how much the darkness and negativity has consumed me over the last few weeks. Enough! What will be will be, AND I’m going to start focusing more on every great opportunity this situation presents.

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Hot Topic Friday: April 3

Happy Friday! Here are my April 3 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week, let’s cheers to making the best out of those Virtual Happy Hours! And fortunately, bad times bring out kind people.

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Want to Really Make Those Remote (And All) Teams More Productive?

I’d like to coach you on the next area of development for accelerating team progress, as a further extension to the latest Lead In on optimizing productivity.

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Hot Topic Friday: March 27

Happy Friday! Here are my March 27 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. This week we’re asking if it’s grief that people are feeling during this time, and then examining our journey and next steps to the next normal. Come join us!

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The New Change Management Strategy: Get S#it Done Because We Must!

The biggest thing I’ve taken away so far is that traditional change management ideas (which have been too pedestrian for the last decade), get appropriately flushed down the toilet when people go from asking “why should we?” to urgently declare, “we must.”

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Hot Topic Friday: March 20

Happy Friday! Here are my March 20 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Here are some refreshing bright spots to counter balance the doom and gloom out there, as well as an unexpected poem that has delivered a breath of fresh air for many.

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Be Kind With Clarity and Do the Right Thing

In these circumstances of serious crises, the attribute people need most is thoughtful, decisive clarity. My strong belief is that this is when leaders need to do what’s best for people first.

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Hot Topic Friday: March 13

Happy Friday! Here are my March 13 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Like everybody else, we’re talking about the Coronavirus, but how are we leading through it? And while there’s no vaccine yet, here’s one antidote we can all practice now (for free).

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Examples of the 10 Elements of Adaptive Cultures at Work! Part Two

The 10 Elements of Adaptive Cultures. As promised in previous blogs, I will from time to time share with all you how we are implementing the framework. The following is a summary for just a few things we are doing, part 2!

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Hot Topic Friday: March 6

Happy Friday! Here are my March 6 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the difference between worry, stress and anxiety (and what we can do about it), as well as the one trait that seemingly all unhappy people share. Do you have it too?

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Examples of the 10 Elements of Adaptive Cultures at Work!

The 10 Elements of Adaptive Cultures. As promised in previous blogs, I will from time to time share with all you how we are implementing the framework. The following is a summary for just a few things we are doing:

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 28

Happy Friday! Here are my Feb. 28 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about David Ayres’ journey from Zamboni driver to goal tender, as well as introduce you to the story of Donald Lee. Here’s how I think they both can have a big motivational impact on us all.

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Celebrating the Ups & Riding Out the Downs

I could go on with many highs and lows over a 40-plus year career cruise. An honest reflection would map a road trip with ample amounts of both “flat tire” causing pot-holes, and incredible vistas. Here’s my way of how to best traverse the journey.

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Hot Topic Friday: Feb. 21

Happy Friday! Here are my Feb. 21 Hot Topics and how they relate to advancing culture or leadership. Let’s talk about the expression of genuine positivity in the workplace, and how getting to know ourselves is not easy. Then, learn about how being “indistractable” at work is considered today’s super power.

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