Here we are again, a new calendar year in front of us. For many, it is a clean slate to reinvent themselves and their worlds. How about you?
What if this became the year you finally make your life and work world a better fit for you, without having to limit yourself to what others expect of you?
My goal
Skills and experience are usually the elements we focus on when we try to hire the right person for a job. Yet, there are other crucial considerations that we often overlook:
When you struggle to collaborate with your colleagues or they don’t deliver the work the way you’d expect them to, it’s easy to make assumptions about their behavior or abilities. This can escalate tension and frustration.
Through a Kolbe Assessment, you can understand and appreciate the way each person operates, to then resolve collaboration problems and optimize how you
Having great talent on your team doesn’t do much unless you know how to make the most of everyone’s innate abilities and understand the dynamics they create when working together. If the team members don’t have a sense of their collective synergies (or lack thereof), they will work against each other, causing team conflicts and misunderstandings that can lead to
When working with clients, quickly understanding how they make decisions and what they need to take action can be a real asset. If we operate in a manner that is different from how they are naturally predisposed to approach problems and situations, we can cause pushback and frustration. Even more, they might find it overwhelming to collaborate with us.
Jamie
When we are not performing to the standards that we – or our bosses – expect, it’s easy to start thinking there is something wrong with us. We tend to assume we are not as capable as our colleagues who are reaching those goals.
This can severely mine our confidence.
Rarely do we stop and consider that maybe the process
Collaborations problems can happen when you work with people who have an instinctive way of performing tasks and solving problems that’s different from your own. You might get in each other’s way to the point of frustration.
This is more so when you are not aware of the real issue. You can get annoyed with how others are going about
For those who have not had the experience of being coached, I have created a new series of posts to give you a peek into how coaching clients have learned to maximize their natural talents when working alone and with others.
You will be able to hear directly from some of my clients who kindly agreed to do a video
The most successful leaders see themselves as mentors and coaches.
They realize that their job is not to always be the smartest person in the room but to nurture their team to come up with their own solutions and innovative ideas.
They understand that their responsibility is not solely to meet the company’s goals but to help co-workers and direct
An important contributor to leadership success is being able to engage in – and foster – healthy conflict. The main ingredient of healthy conflict is what I call “straight talk”: being comfortable speaking honestly, to the point, saying what you mean.
Unfortunately, many leaders shy away from straight talk, choosing instead to tiptoe around important conversations. Why? Because they are