How do you bring new talent into your organization? What’s the biggest challenge for leaders in almost all midmarket organizations? I find the biggest challenge is how entrepreneurs attract millennials to their organization. Don’t worry; I’ve got significant experience working with millennials both in high school and college. You’re going…
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How Can You Connect with Baby Boomer Serving Leaders?
How many pieces of mail do you get every day? How many emails, messages, and social media postings do you see on a regular basis? If you’re the average baby boomer today, you are exposed to over 20,000 messages every day. It’s no wonder that your messages don’t get read. …
Continue Reading....What Can We Learn From Tim Cook’s CEO Succession Plan?
Earlier this week we talked about why Apple’s succession strategy worked. We shared that one of the traits of a successful successor is the leader must know where they are going and what key capabilities are required to help get them there. How Tim Cook began building his succession strategy.…
Continue Reading....Lead by Telling the Story of Where You Are Going
“We’ve never had a policy manual. The way we pass along our values is to sit around the campfire and share stories.” That’s the CEO of a $1.3 billion company talking. Elizabeth Weil, in Fast Company magazine, interviewed many business leaders about the power of storytelling. “Leadership is about change,”…
Continue Reading....How Deeper Listening Can Help You Build Trust Faster!
What’s the best way to connect on a deeper level? How can you create a connection that’s built on trust faster? Why is listening becoming a lost art? Earlier this week, I shared how you can help capture the world’s wisdom forever. Today, I remind you how to get better…
Continue Reading....Every Person Has a Story, Why Not Share Yours?
Last week, I watched Dave Isay receive the 2015 TED Prize of 1,000,000 dollars. This is a great honor for Dave Isay and his team at StoryCorps. When you win the TED Prize, you are asked to share your wish with a live audience of what you would like to…
Continue Reading....Three Ways Serving Leaders Build Breakthrough Connections
How can you compete with highly connected people? How do you connect to your many different stakeholders on a regular basis? The more complicated our lives get through using new technologies, the more critical it is for serving leaders to connect personally. I thought it might help to share several…
Continue Reading....A Bit of Blarney; a St. Patrick’s Day Story
So what moves you? What makes you feel connected to generations of family and friends who were here before you that still impact the way you see your life? For most of us, we’ve learned about our past from a story told by someone in the family who has the…
Continue Reading....Serving Leaders Make Someone Else the Hero of the Story!
Here’s a problem leaders face every day. You want to get something done. It will take everyone in your organization to do it. How will you get them pulling in the same direction? You could go around and have a heart-to-heart with each person in the organization. You could explain…
Continue Reading....Leaders Are You Serving One or Many With Your Service?
How is your organization set up? Is it set up to serve the one, or the many? Today, we have people who are online with millions of followers. They have created great systems to make a living selling a small percentage of their followers their products and services. Are they serving…
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