You might have a plant manager who was a great engineer but now struggles to lead people. Or a technical director who avoids hard conversations. Or a high-potential supervisor who’s overwhelmed managing former peers. You know leadership training would help—but which...
Some days it feels like your team is working hard but not working together. You sense tension, misalignment, or confusion, but you’re not sure what’s underneath it or how deep it goes. That uncertainty weighs on leaders at every level, and it can make choosing a team...
Unemployment levels are back to their pre-pandemic lows (below 4% nationally), and as any leader charged with building (and keeping!) an amazing team knows, it’s not easy to fill key vacancies. As Rodger Price explains in his latest article for the Grand Rapids...
Many of you have heard me say that concepts often work on me, whether I want them to or not. My ego would like to claim that I’m working on them, but I have to admit that I often feel like I have no choice—some concepts just seem to wrestle with me until I feel like...
Three years ago I read Leaders Eat Last by Simon Sinek and enjoyed many aspects of it. One concept that stirred me up was his contention that people need to work in a “circle of safety” where they don’t ever have to worry about being fired. Sinek’s belief is...
Fellow leaders, One of the key teachings in the book Switch is that the more we can turn people problems into situational problems, the more likely we are to see successful change—even when change is hard. And the more we can look at others with the mindset...
