Team meetings are absolutely essential. But are you using them as the grounding stone that they are intended to be, or are you using them as a work group? Are they debilitating or are they [...]
If you sometimes feel that dealing with difficult employees is like a game of whack-a-mole, you’re in the right place. We’ll talk about labels and thoughts and identified behaviors. Here [...]
Are you looking to hire someone who has amazing experience and a really great resume? Here’s a little advice, based on my experience, when hiring people who come from corporate cultures. What [...]
If your business has a culture of accountability, that means that your employees accept ownership for their results, no matter what. But with that comes this unexpected truth that has been a [...]
Some leaders don’t find it difficult to manage people, but for others it seems to be this gut-wrenching thing. Being a good leader requires an ability to connect – to see and to be seen. Let’s [...]
In today’s interview, Kris talks with Dr. Camille Broussard Wise, a scholar-practitioner of leadership, management, and advancing diversity and equity. A passionate social justice advocate, she [...]
The only way to know what you don’t know, and to gain an understanding of whatever it is, is to be willing to tolerate and sit with discomfort. It doesn’t mean you have to agree. It means you [...]
At some point in the trajectory of a founder’s business growth, she inevitably finds that some of the people she’s working with haven’t kept pace… the business has outgrown their skillset. [...]
Times are crazy right now! You’re in charge even though you think you have no idea what you’re doing. You want there to be a manual somewhere to help you with all the mandates, employee fears, [...]
In order to build a team performance culture, you have to have a mindset around why you are adding people to your business that supports what you’re trying to do in the long term. Your culture is [...]