If your team fails to achieve collective goals, take personal responsibility to improve team performance. Consider using team-based rewards as recognition. When team members’ incentives focus only on individual performance objectives, and not those of the team, it becomes easier for team members to pay attention to their own personal goals and career development at the expense of the team. Email the Academy at leadership@chairacademy.com for more information about leading eff

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What do you and your team aspire to accomplish. Take some time and paint this picture. Exemplary leaders help everyone see that they each hold a piece of the puzzle that links to creating the whole. As a team, reflect on what you expect to achieve. Ask team members to contribute by illustrating what they aspire to do. Draw from these visual themes to create a message that conveys a shared vision for the group. Check in from time-to-time to make sure the decisions made are in

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The face of higher education is changing every day. Colleges and universities are faced with numerous challenges such as low retention, decline in degree completion, budget cuts, rising costs, and changes in teaching methods and curricula. As institutions are looking for ways to increase degree completion and student retention, they also focus on improving student learning experience in the classroom. In order to accomplish this goal, it is important to understand the differe

Research shows that employees have higher levels of workplace engagement when they are clear about their values – clarity of their own values and those of the organization. Do you talk about your values and discover you have in common with your team? To build consensus around shared values, try these three things: 1. Have team members think about what values are most important to them and ask them to write down their top five values. 2. Have each team member share their value

This is the Leadership Minute. I’m Rose Marie Sloan with today’s topic – Unlocking Your Talents. Gallup defines talent as, “natural, instinctive, and recurring ways of thinking, believing, and behaving.” Talent reflects how you are hard-wired, resulting in consistent and repetitive patterns of thought and behavior. It dictates reactions to your environment, as there is an instinctiveness and immediacy implied. Knowledge and skill, on the other hand, imply learned behavior. A