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Think about your team meetings: • Are they effective? • Does productive conflict occur? • What are the levels of engagement during the meeting? Effective team meetings provide a setting where conflict can occur. The best performing teams encourage meetings that are lively and interesting. They engage in ideological debate around issues that tap into all perspectives and opinions ~ popular and unpopular. As you schedule your next team meeting, set aside enough time for critica

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Take a moment and reflect on this question. What does “organized” mean to you? David Allen, author of the best-selling book Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress Free Productivity, reveals that when organizations focus on using an organizational structure to “get things done” productivity increases and stress is reduced. He shares what “organized” means, as well as the importance of making good decisions, with his five steps of Mastering Workflow Model. Click on the video li

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Higher ed. leaders One of my favorite things about coaching executives in higher education is their love for reading and learning. Most leaders regularly go to leadership conferences and read leadership books. Their hunger for knowledge makes my work all the more enjoyable and rewarding. In fact, they know so much that when we start working together, my most valuable contribution to them isn’t necessarily sharing more knowledge but removing blocks to implementing what they al

One of the ways to recognize and encourage your team is through storytelling. The idea is to tell stories in a purposeful way, providing encouragement about the good work of others. Click on the video link for this week’s Leadership Tip and hear the key elements of “purposeful storytelling”.