5 steps to give tough feedback that sticks
Are you sometimes frustrated that your employees don’t change their behavior, even though you repeatedly ask them to? Make your feedback more effective. How?
4 Tips to Avoid Promoting to Failure
We too often promote the wrong person into a senior leadership position. The reason is: the promotion criteria we use are poor predictors of people’s leadership potential. How can you do better?
Do you want to grow faster? Know why
Profit is an outcome, not a purpose in itself. A clear purpose increases employee engagement – which in turns increases growth and profit. How can you identify your growth purpose?
Is it time to revamp your leadership team?
Increasing diversity on your leadership team leads to better decisions and better results. However we naturally surround ourselves with people similar to us. How do you know whether your leadership team is diverse enough?
Your team is not as aligned as you think. What now?
Many CEOs and team members overestimate their team’s alignment around their growth strategy. Actual alignment is, on average, two or three times lower than perceived alignment. What can you do about it?
5 Tips to Surface More Conflicts and Make Smarter Decisions
Our natural tendency is to diffuse conflicts. Yet well-managed conflicts can greatly improve the quality of your decisions. How can you proactively surface more conflicts – so you can grow faster?
Want to be a more effective leader? Three ways to receive more feedback
Receiving candid feedback is critical to become a more effective leader. Yet people are afraid to give feedback – especially to you, the big boss. What can you do about it?
How can you increase your cash by +19%?
Cash is the oxygen of your growth engine. The good news is: your business has hidden pockets of cash. How can you find them, so that you can grow faster and with less pain?
Why you are so slow at letting poor performers go – and what you can do about it
You probably know the low performers in your organization. Intuitively you also know that you should let them go today – and yet you don’t. What can you do about it?
Is your employee turnover too high? 5 tips to deal with it.
Employee turnover can be like a weed: you think that you have solved the problem once and for all, but it comes back the following year. How can you find out the root causes of high employment turnover – so that you can structurally reduce it?