The Great Eight: Commitment
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) In Patrick Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team, he lists five characteristics of a dysfunctional team. One of those five is “the lack of commitment.” When people have not had...
The Great Eight: Common Goals
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) Imagine you are running a race. All the runners gather together, stretching muscles, bouncing on the balls of their feet to warm up, drinking a last few sips of water, popping in their...
The Great Eight: An Introduction
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) Throughout our year together in LEAD 365, we focused on three "buckets" of leadership—three areas that great leaders need to focus on: Being a person worth following Creating clarity...
Shaping Culture Again and Again
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) We’ve just spent time taking our sixth and seventh cohorts through our session on shaping culture. We took one group to one of our favorite places to teach this, Feyen Zylstra. We took...
Is Your Pace Sustainable?
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) Years ago I had the strangest electrical problem with my car in which two gauges stopped working: my speedometer and tachometer. What was weird was that their “not working” needle...
Soul Food
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) This month I'm doing quite a bit of teaching around Leading Yourself, what we used to call Personal Management in LEAD 365. We work with a lot of successful, growing leaders, some of...
Guest Post: Making Great Choices
Today's post is written by a LEAD 365 alumnus for other alumni. Ken Horner is the vice president of quality for Gentex Corporation. Ken was part of a LEAD 365 cohort that kicked off in March 2015 and wrapped up this past February. We're excited to have Ken share his...
Leaning Into Healthy Conflict: A Refresher
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) In this post I will answer some questions that have come up from time to time about the model we use for engaging conflict. Do you remember the model? It’s six...
Do You Know Your Gifts?
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) The DoKnowBe Tree was introduced to all participants in the opening session of LEAD 365. It is a framework that helps us understand the following fundamental truth: leadership is not...
Scarcity, Choice Paralysis, and Time
(This post is written for alumni of LEAD 365, although all are welcome to read it.) I'm reading a book right now about scarcity (appropriately titled Scarcity.) Actually, I'm listening to it as an audiobook because I have so many projects to do around the house, but I...