My first business coach used to call it “count-on-ability”.  She was great.

The Oxford Dictionary defines “accountable” as: responsible: required to account for one’s actions.
If you’re immediately thinking of someone in your company who dodges responsibility, blames others, and seems unable to be accountable, you are not alone.  We all know people like this. (think typical [...]

I was in Phoenix last week at the Summer Conference for TTI Performance Systems.  Always in pursuit of how we can help our clients manage their businesses and their talent better, a select group of 50 of us put our head down and went to work: branstorming, collaborating, sharing knowledge, and listening to experts in [...]

A Primer on Loss and Grief for Leaders
If you are running a company of any size, you hear about some relative or friend of your workforce dying almost every day. In even the smallest company, there is loss all around your employees. Loss you don’t see, and I am about to make you aware of. [...]

 
March is the month we are focused on Selection and Retention of Top Talent.  However, many of you are in a position right now where you can’t add staff, and you need to increase profit without hiring. 
 

 
I have written a three-part series for smaller-sized businesses on how to grow your profit without growing your staff.  The three [...]

All of us need to improve our decision making abilities in this business environment. 
IQ (Intelligence Quotient) measures your overall general intelligence. EQ (Emotional Quotient) measures your emotional intelligence: your ability to sense, understand, and effectively apply the power and acumen of emotions to facilitate high levels of collaboration and productivity.  This is how effective leaders [...]

I talk to at least 50 people a day, and here is the most interesting thing I’ve learned recently.
1. Many people have been laid off in recent weeks and months.
2. One of the top challenges my executive clients have is the small talent pool to choose from.
Something doesn’t measure up.  There has to be lots of great [...]

Sometimes in your Mastermind Group you will want to spend time brainstorming.
A successful Mastermind Group is one that can brainstorm well.  Many groups have problems brainstorming, therefore do not leverage their thinking power to the extent possible.
Brainstorming is the unashamed, prolific sharing of ideas that come to your mind when you are in the group [...]