Making decisions without thinking through unintended consequences

Often, leaders make decisions without thinking through any unintended consequences. Additionally, leaders overlook potential consequences of inaction or indecision; this can lead to a lack of empathy and compassion, disengagement, and a negative perception from others.

Employees need an outlet to report bad leaders

Given the Great Resignation and the amount of dysfunctional leadership, what option do employees have to address and develop a poor leader? Data shows us that employees leave managers; we have given employees no other option.

Reactive or proactive: what’s better for your business?

Time management is a common pain point that troubles my clients. When leaders are running on reactive autopilot, it can be very frustrating and demotivating for the team. Take a look at what reactive versus proactive means for you and for your business.

Hands-off leadership is lazy leadership

My perspective is that hands-off leadership is lazy leadership. And that is because some ~60% of our leaders have never received leadership training. We promote based on technical skills and we don’t provide leaders with the tools necessary to lead. Therefore, leaders tend to focus solely on task management and they are “hands off” with the people management aspect. And this makes sense! There’s a natural tendency to want to “get out of the way” because it’s the easy thing to do.

Guideposts for leadership & culture decisions

We’re in the age of people using their online presence to resign publicly and call out companies for their inappropriate or toxic work culture. How to make internal decisions based off of thinking ahead: would I feel good if my clients or the public knew about this?

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