Kevin Eikenberry is a leadership expert and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group (http://KevinEikenberry.com), a learning consulting company. To receive a free Special Report on leadership that includes resources, ideas, and advice go to http://www.kevineikenberry.com/leadership.asp or call us at (317) 387-1424 or 888.LEARNER.
Do you have a team that is frustrated, not making progress, or unclear about expectations? There is one single thing that can alleviate or eliminate these challenges and get the team off to a solid start…a team charter.
Typically people have an "either or" mindset which inevitably leads to suboptimal solutions, and under satisfying compromises. By switching to the "both and" mindset you can become more successful and paradoxically create greater clarity and balance in your life.
We know that if we generate more ideas we have a better chance of finding better ideas. Your goals should be to have a variety of approaches to help stimulate idea creation in your repertoire. By doing this you will improve the overall quality of ideas by virtue of having more to choose from.
As a coach, someone helping people improve their performance for the benefit of both the individual and the organization, there are typically two types of feedback that you could provide on their performance at anytime. The most important and most overlooked is positive feedback which I call praise.
When you think about the most successful, happy, fulfilled people you know, you could probably identify some characteristics these people have in common. Several years ago, when thinking about that question, I identified several things that those people shared that I wanted to incorporate into my habits more consistently. Below are five actions that when these actions are taken more often, they will become habits that will greatly impact our performance – in all parts of our life.
One more meeting can help your business grow and change. One more meeting can give you new opportunities to explore and improve your results. Not just any meeting, more specifically, an idea meeting.
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