Improve Teamwork by Utilizing Cognitive Collaboration

Teamwork and cognitive collaboration from within an organization are probably two of the biggest factors that contribute to whether a firm succeeds or not. Formation of and communication between teams can often be beset with various issues that can stop a team’s effectiveness dead in its tracks. Even more problematic is that the traditional formation…

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The Power of Transparent Leadership

How transparent leadership affects your business and how to achieve it I was recently reading a very interesting article by consultant Dorie Clarke on the benefits of transparent leadership and what that means to a business. When we think of great leaders, we often think of the larger-than-life personalities—Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Mark Zuckerberg—they possess…

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Leadership and Neuroscience

Why the brain and the way you think can make you a better leader I just watched this video from Dr. Deepak Chopra on how the brain is wired and how neuroscience can impact leadership. There’s clearly a link between what goes on in our brains and how we lead – the difficulty is understanding…

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5 Steps to Better, ROI Driver Team Building

Team building in the workplace usually conjures images of teams mandated to be in a training room, checking their iPhones, Blackberries, and iPads to see what they should be working on and waiting for someone to provide an assignment with little to no connection to their work that provides a predictable outcome – teams are…

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Leadership is All in Your Head

What makes a perfect leader? It’s a great question with no defined answer – until now. Are you ready?? Perfect leadership is all in your head. Literally – it comes down to this: What’s going on inside your brain. How you’re expressing those thoughts, ideas, and beliefs to others. It is your ability to harness…

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Why Employee Engagement is Costing You Money and How to Fix It

Think employee engagement isn’t quantitative? Think again. Employee engagement – that warm, feel-good tenet of a happy office environment – starts to escape into the ether when budgets start tightening and projections start being made. And the reasoning isn’t that engaged employees aren’t important or that a productive, focused, and happy workforce cannot make a…

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Strategies for Managing Change

Change is a constant in our lives, and as a result we’re always looking for strategies for managing change. Do you know how you actually process change on a personal level? We all inherently have a way to work through trying or fast-shifting times – it is our own change management process. However, I’m not…

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