Are you so busy solving problems and reacting to crises that you do not have time to develop the culture in your organization? If so, you are trapped in a whack-a-mole game. To get out, you need to carve out time to work with your group on improving the environment. Benefits - 

1. Reduce interpersonal conflicts – fewer problems for you to solve,
2.  Create more empowered employees – more willing hands to resolve issues,
3.  Lower stress - lower the tendency for burn out.

Read full white paper… http://www.leadergrow.com/StopPlayingWhackAMole.pdf

We have all run into a narcissist leader somewhere along the way. This “Bull in a china shop”  leader goes around all day creating damage – often with no congnition of it. There are two issues here.

1. If you are a leader, how can you tell the extent to which your hubris is taking you in a direction at cross purposes to your intent?
2. If you work in an environment where there is one or more narcissistic leaders, how can you improve conditions for yourself and your co-workers?

These questions are so common that most people deal with some form of the dilemma every single day at work, yet despite years of effort and suffering, no relief is in sight. I believe there is a shaping process that can actually serve as a tranquilizer in the melee, but the application must be done with great skill to be effective.

Learn the technique in this white paper…
http://www.leadergrow.com/Humility.pdf

Admitting mistakes is a way to build respect and trust. Many leaders think the opposite.

Early in my leadership career I learned the power of admitting mistakes publicly. I had made an error that would cost our group some allocated budget money. I called the team together, described my error, asked for forgiveness, and suggested to pull together as a team to make up for the mistake. I got a very positive show of support at the meeting.

What I did not anticipate was a stream of employees coming into my office for the next couple days telling me that they had never experienced a leader do that before, and it really made a difference in how they saw me.

The technique of publicly admitting mistakes is not effective in every case as there are mistakes that are just plain dumb or leaders who make too many of them. But the ability to publicly admit a rare innocent mistake can have incredible trust building power.

Learn the technique and the caveats in this white paper…

http://www.leadergrow.com/AdmittingMistakes.pdf