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  • First Look: Leadership Books for June 2023
    by Michael McKinney on June 1, 2023 at 2:48 pm

    HERE’S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in June 2023 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month. Leading with Significance: How to Create a Magnetic, People-First Culture by Joey Havens Can a magnetic culture elevate you to unparalleled performance? Absolutely! And your journey to a magnetic culture starts by recognizing that good culture simply isn’t enough to drive top performance. With uncertainty swirling around every corner in the world today, team members are reevaluating their workplaces and walking out as they look past hollow promises and perks that are a mere temporary bandage. People are searching for teams with purpose, a compelling vision, and a sense of belonging where they can pursue their full potential and live their lives to the fullest. In Leading with Significance, Joey Havens breaks through the limiting barriers of common culture theory and shows, with great transparency, the real human emotions that elevate a culture to one that is genuine, enduring, and magnetic. The Experience Mindset: Changing the Way You Think About Growth by Tiffani Bova In the war for customer acquisition, businesses invest millions of dollars to improve customer experience. They deliver packages faster, churn out new products, and endlessly revamp their UI, often putting greater strain on employees for diminishing returns. According to Tiffani Bova, this siloed focus on customer experience – without considering the impact on your staff – actually hinders growth in the long…

  • My Subscriber List is Broken
    by Dan Rockwell on June 1, 2023 at 11:15 am

    The last Leadership Freak post that went to the subscriber list was published on May 23 (At least that’s the best I can tell). I apologize for this inconvenience. There are indications that… Continue reading →

  • LeadershipNow 140: May 2023 Compilation
    by Michael McKinney on May 31, 2023 at 3:47 pm

    Here are a selection of tweets from May 2023 that you will want to check out: Setting Goals is Overrated by @AlanSteinJr The 5 C’s of Hiring by @KevinPaulScott Boss’s Tip of the Week: Get a Leadership Development Buddy from @wallybock Kicking the Can Down the Road (On Hard Decisions) by @edbatista Mental Liquidity by @morganhousel via @collabfund So much of what people call “conviction” is actually a willful disregard for facts that might change their minds. Will AI Kill Human Creativity? by @UzziLeadership via @KelloggSchool What Fake Drake tells us about what’s ahead. Looking the Part, Being the Part by @James_Albright 5 Things To Quit To Become More Successful by @JosephLalonde Identity Politics Comes for Tim Scott by @jamesstrock | Social Conservatives Join the Attack on One of Their Own. The Bastardization of Psychological Safety – and How Leaders Can Get Back on Track by @JenniferVMiller Time to Make Your Summer Reading List for 2023 by @wallybock How to Manage a Disengaged Employee—and Get Them Excited about Work Again via @KelloggSchool Successful People Skills: How to Deal With People You Don’t Like by @Katenasser Develop Your Leadership Identity by Marlene Chism @stopyourdrama Some Things I Think by Morgan Housel @morganhousel via @collabfund How to Create a Quality Feedback Culture that Supports Learning and Growth by @artpetty | Quality feedback is a dialog about future performance, not a debate over the past Getting Unstuck by @samchand How to Write an Unforgettable Speech by @DrNickMorgan via @publicwords Career Focus—When You…

  • 4 Questions that Guide Your Most Important Conversation
    by Dan Rockwell on May 31, 2023 at 12:01 pm

    Quality of conversations predicts quality of life. I talk to strangers even though momma said not to. You talk to dogs, babies, team members, bosses, family members, neighbors, and store clerks. Some talk… Continue reading →

  • Thriving When You Are Out of Your Comfort Zone
    by Michael McKinney on May 30, 2023 at 4:42 pm

    IN MY thirty-plus years as a business coach, I have seen thousands of brilliant, charismatic, and driven thinkers make it to their dream positions in high leadership and thrive there. While they all had wildly different career paths, they all agreed on one thing: The road to success leads out of your comfort zone. At one point in their career, all the top-level executives I have coached had to take a risk and accept an assignment, team, or job they didn’t feel entirely comfortable with. Their career risk paid off – but it doesn’t always. So, when you take your own leap of faith, how can you make sure you stick the landing? Here’s what I have learned. Imagined Inadequacy: Dealing with Imposter Syndrome As you move out of your comfort zone and into a position where you lead a larger group of people with a variety of skills and responsibilities, you won’t be able to solve every problem with your technical expertise alone. And when you’re out of your depth, it’s easy to feel like an imposter at times. Imposter syndrome means feeling inadequate and unqualified, and simply not good enough. It’s often paired with a sense of irrational dread and the constant worry that everyone will one day find out that you are a phony and really not as competent as you pretend to be. This feeling can stifle your potential as a leader, impair your ability to see a problem objectively, and lead to stress at…

  • Culture Shock: The Most Important Habit of a Great Manager
    by Dan Rockwell on May 30, 2023 at 10:31 am

    Peter Drucker said, “The purpose of business is to create and keep a customer.” Organizational culture is the way we treat each other while we do the work. Should you build a culture… Continue reading →

  • 7 Questions to Create Brag Time
    by Dan Rockwell on May 26, 2023 at 11:30 am

    Give team members brag time in one-on-one meetings. Bad stuff: Bad overshadows good. You’re rightly concerned about making things better and solving problems. But constant concerns suck the life out of people. You… Continue reading →

  • Leading Thoughts for May 25, 2023
    by Michael McKinney on May 25, 2023 at 9:22 pm

    IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Schoolteacher Alice Moore Hubbard, on how to teach: “Teaching is successful only as it causes people to think for themselves. What the teacher thinks matters little; what he makes the child think matters much.” Source: Life Lessons: Truths Concerning People Who Have Lived II. Ray Bradbury on the lost art of contemplation and real connection: “Across the street and down the way the other houses stood with their flat fronts. What was it Clarisse had said one afternoon? ‘No front porches. My uncle says there used to be front porches. And people sat there sometimes at night, talking when they wanted to talk, rocking, and not talking when they didn’t want to talk. Sometimes they just sat there and thought about things, turning things over. My uncle says the architects got rid of the front porches because they didn’t look well. But my uncle says that was merely rationalizing it; the real reason, hidden underneath, might be they didn’t want people sitting like that, doing nothing, rocking, talking; that was the wrong kind of social life. People talked too much. And they had time to think. So they ran off with the porches. And the gardens, too. Not many gardens any more to sit around in. And look at the furniture. No rocking chairs anymore. They’re too comfortable. Get people up and running around.’”…

  • Quiet Quitting – 5 Questions that Confront Quiet Quitting
    by Dan Rockwell on May 25, 2023 at 10:31 am

    Quiet quitting is a disaster. I’m not thinking about organizations. It’s a disaster for everyone. Doing the minimum at work is circling a black hole. Quiet quitting is disengagement. Disengagement is boring. Imagine… Continue reading →

  • The Ultimate Pursuit of Leadership
    by Dan Rockwell on May 24, 2023 at 10:36 am

    It’s normal to complain; it’s leadership to make something better. The consistent pursuit of improvement yields unfathomable advantage. Improvement is the ultimate pursuit of leadership. Choose the goal: Know where you’re going before… Continue reading →

  • Leading Thoughts for May 18, 2023
    by Michael McKinney on May 18, 2023 at 3:52 pm

    IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Daphne Jones on looking beyond the distractions: “Focus on the outcomes. You need to be like a football team that is focused on getting that ball in the end zone. You can’t be distracted by the people who seem to be ‘coming after you.’ Even though you will be aware of the naysayers, the haters, those who will try to drag you down, don’t focus on them, but merely calculate how you will go around them or through them to get to your outcome and goal.” Source: Win When They Say You Won’t: Break Through Barriers and Keep Leveling Up Your Success II. William Dawson on the value of limitations: “The thing that is least perceived about wealth is that all pleasure in money ends at the point where economy becomes unnecessary. The man who can buy anything he covets values nothing that he buys. There is a subtle pleasure in the extravagance that contests with prudence; in the anxious debates which we hold with ourselves whether we can or cannot afford a certain thing; in our attempts to justify our wisdom; in the risk and recklessness of our operations; in the long deferred and final joy of our possession; but this is a kind of pleasure which the man of boundless means never knows.” Source: The Quest of the Simple Life * *…

  • 7 Tips to Build Trust in Your Negotiations
    by Michael McKinney on May 15, 2023 at 2:59 pm

    TRUST is a cornerstone of effective negotiations. From trusting yourself to building trust with the other party, trust itself improves long-term outcomes, relationships, and buy-in. Yet we often don’t give it the attention it deserves. We rarely include intentional trust-building as part of our preparation work for negotiations, and this is a mistake. Failing to build trust adversely impacts your ability to influence and persuade other people. In other words, it undermines your effectiveness as a negotiator. What is trust, exactly? For a long time, experts couldn’t agree on how to define trust, let alone how to build it. There were widely divergent opinions across multiple disciplines on the causes of trust, its nature, and its impact. Everyone agreed it was important, but nobody agreed on why or how. A 1995 Academy of Management Review journal article, “An Integrative Model of Organizational Trust,” is often cited for its breakdown of the factors of trustworthiness. It suggests three factors determine whether we find someone trustworthy: Ability: Do I believe the person has the ability to deliver on their promises? Benevolence: Is the person inclined or motivated to do right by me? Integrity: Does the person share values and principles that are acceptable to me? Drawing on this model over a decade later, Stephen M. R. Covey broke the concept of trust into two components: character and competence. Character reflects integrity and intent. Competence draws on capabilities and results. Would you pass the “trust test” based on these qualities? It’s worth…

  • Real-Time Leadership: Creating the Space Between Stimulus and Response to Make Wise Choices
    by Michael McKinney on May 12, 2023 at 2:31 pm

    MAKING the most of every moment requires that we slow down and create some space between the challenges that are thrown at us and how we react. When faced with high-stakes challenges, we too often rely on our instincts and pattern recognition that we have developed through years of experience and plow ahead. When the challenge or opportunity is new, relying on our instincts can take us in the wrong direction. To master pivotal moments in real-time, David Noble and Carol Kauffman offer the M.O.V.E. framework in Real-Time Leadership: Find Your Winning Move When the Stakes Are High. Handling high-stakes, high-risk leadership challenges requires preparation and practice. The M.O.V.E. framework helps you to find, open, and use the space you create between the challenge and your response. The framework is described briefly this way: M: Be Mindfully Alert “Mindful Alertness in high-stakes situations means being exquisitely aware of what is needed from you as a leader at this exact moment, so you can lead in real time.” It means being “precise about and flexible with where you put your attention.” To be mindfully alert is about overcoming your instincts. If you automatically turn to your standard playbook you are not being mindfully alert. Being mindfully alert allows you to create space in real time. Every challenge you will face as a leader will involve all or some of what they call the Three Dimensions of Leadership: First is the External Dimension that refers to high-stakes that you want and…

  • Leading Thoughts for May 11, 2023
    by Michael McKinney on May 11, 2023 at 5:26 pm

    IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Morra Aarons-Mele on labeling: “Such an error in thinking gets you off the hook when it comes to improving a situation. If you think you’re inherently bad (I am a failure), rather than a normal person who makes mistakes or bad decisions (I occasionally fail), you’ve essentially given up before even trying. The same thing occurs when you label other people. ‘You see them as totally bad,’ David Burns writes. ‘This makes you feel hostile and hopeless about improving things and leaves little room for constructive communication.’ Labeling makes it difficult to create a workplace culture with constructive communication and teams committed to improving performance.” Source: The Anxious Achiever: Turn Your Biggest Fears into Your Leadership Superpower II. Douglas McGregor on motivation: “The motivation, the potential for development, the capacity for assuming responsibility, the readiness to direct behavior toward organizational goals are all present in people. Management does not put them there. It is a responsibility of management to make it possible for people to recognize and develop these human characteristics for themselves.” Source: Leadership & Motivation * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas.  …

  • An Ordinary Man: Gerald R. Ford
    by Michael McKinney on May 10, 2023 at 1:08 am

    GERALD FORD was an inner-directed leader that gave him quiet strength. He didn’t indulge his ego. A leader with the courage to do what needed to be done despite the consequences. Richard Norton Smith’s extraordinary biography of Gerald Ford, An Ordinary Man, pulls together multiple perspectives to give essential insights into Ford’s thinking and leadership. Ford had moral authority because he lived his values. He believed that you could disagree without being disagreeable. Never taking himself too seriously and wanting to do what was best for the country, he recruited people who knew more than he did about the issues he faced. Ford possessed what Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Hersey called a “stubborn calm at the center” and “a glacial caution.” Curated below are some notes from An Ordinary Man: ☙ “The strongest weapon in a political campaign is the good credited you by word of mouth”—this Ford credo goes a long way toward explaining him and the congressional mindset he personifies. By stressing individual contacts over ideological mandates, Ford defines leadership in transactional terms, constituent service on a grand scale. ☙ When asked the secret of his political success, Ford reveals more than he perhaps intends by replying, “I made everyone else’s problems my problems.” ☙ “Ford never doubted the contribution of college sports to his character or career. Teamwork and grueling preparation were educational values in themselves. The discipline to absorb defeat without yielding to defeatism, to distinguish between constructive criticism and the shouted abuse of armchair…

  • Align Your Organization to Succeed in Today’s and Tomorrow’s Changing Environment
    by Michael McKinney on May 5, 2023 at 2:33 pm

    THE PANDEMIC threw all strategies into the junkyard. We now have the opportunity to deal with new realities, but that calls for an entirely new approach to half-century-old strategic processes. Conduct your “forensic implementation analysis” to examine these five dynamic forces: 1. Which Practices to Sustain In this dynamic, you are doing things today that will also serve you well in the future in achieving your vision. Ford’s F-150 pickup truck is the best-selling vehicle in the U.S. and has been for some time. It will probably maintain this status in the immediate future. Ford needs to sustain that type of vehicle and capabilities, whether powered by gas, batteries, hydrogen, or advertising heft. My landscaper has been working with different crews for the 30 years I’ve known him. He consistently sustains a scientific method about grass height, shrub diseases, removal of pests, and so forth. His equipment has changed as his crews have, but not the criteria he uses to keep the property looking great. 2. Which Practices to Improve You may currently be conducting business and engaging in actions that are working well now but won’t be for the future. You can build on their momentum by altering and changing them to maximize progress toward your vision. Championship golf courses use an architecture and difficulty that challenge the best in the world. But as the best keep getting better (improved equipment, better conditioning and strength, smarter course management, better coaches and caddies), it’s vital to improve the courses…

  • Leading Thoughts for May 4, 2023
    by Michael McKinney on May 4, 2023 at 2:46 pm

    IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. Susan Fowler on letting go of the notion that you can and should motivate people: “Attempting to motivate people is a losing proposition, no matter your resources. Why? Because people are already motivated—but maybe not in the way you want. When you assume people aren’t motivated, you tend to fall back to strategies proven ineffective, wrongheaded, or even counter to what you intended. You incentivize, and when that doesn’t work, you add more carrots (rewards, incentives, bribes). When you run out of carrots, you may try wielding a thicker stick (threats, fearmongering, and punishment). At some point, you realize your attempts to motivate people are fruitless or, even worse, more harmful than beneficial.” Source: Why Motivating People Doesn’t Work…and What Does, Second Edition: More Breakthroughs for Leading, Energizing, and Engaging II. Former NASA engineer-project manager and launch director at SpaceX John Muratore on the importance of purpose: “Tom Holloway, a very famous Program Manager, and head of Flight Directors for a long time, told me something very interesting. He said, ‘People ask us what our greatest resource is, and we always say, ‘our people.’ We have some bright people, but the truth of the matter is we don’t have any better people than anybody else has. Our people aren’t our greatest resource. Our sense of mission is our greatest resource. When we lose our…

  • First Look: Leadership Books for May 2023
    by Michael McKinney on May 1, 2023 at 3:12 pm

    HERE’S A LOOK at some of the best leadership books to be released in May 2023 curated just for you. Be sure to check out the other great titles being offered this month.   Generation Why: How Boomers Can Lead and Learn from Millennials and Gen Z by Karl Moore Perhaps more than ever before, young people entering the workforce are searching for meaning and authenticity in their careers. This book helps managers understand the postmodern worldview held by generation Z and younger millennials, how it influences their behaviour at work, and how they want to be led in the workplace. Karl Moore takes a practical and down-to-earth approach to understanding what drives millennials and generation Z and how the education system they were brought up in has informed their worldview. Focusing on listening, purpose, reverse mentoring, feedback, and how people relate to each other in the workplace, Generation Why provides the essential tools for effectively working with millennials and generation Z and unlocking their full professional potential. Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs by W. Chan Kim and Renée A. Mauborgne Blue Ocean Strategy forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne offer up a bold, new idea that will transform how we all think about innovation and growth. Disruption dominates innovation theory and practice. But disruption, for all its power, is destructive—displacing jobs, companies, and even entire industries. Are we missing an alternative approach…

  • LeadershipNow 140: April 2023 Compilation
    by Michael McKinney on April 30, 2023 at 4:48 pm

    Here are a selection of tweets from April 2023 that you will want to check out: The Magic of Assuming Positive Intent by @Julie_WG How Magic and Happiness Impact Leadership by @DebbieLaskeyMBA A Conversation You Should Have about Grit with Your Teens by @TimElmore How To Be A Great Team Player by @davidburkus Successful People Skills: How to Deal With People You Don’t Like by @KateNasser A 12-Item Daily Checklist to Strengthen Your Effectiveness as a Manager by @artpetty We Need More Presidential Candidates by @jamesstrock Boss’s Tip of the Week: People who are not like you from @wallybock How to Change Someone’s Mind – Public Words by @DrNickMorgan Ten Questions to Support Continuous Career Growth by @artpetty 5 Ways A Leader Can Adapt In Business Today by @JosephLalonde The Presumptive Chair by James Albright @LeadershipMain What Are You Doing EVERY DAY? by @BillStainton What you do every day beats what you do once in a while. Boss’s Tip of the Week: Challenging work is interesting work from @wallybock How to Grow Out of Your Limiting Beliefs by @ThomasMcDaniels The Culture, Strategy, and Performance Killing Spiral of Poor or No Feedback by @artpetty Honor the Heroes Among Us by @jamesstrock Let’s Build American Monuments Again. Don’t Put a Ceiling on Their Goals or Dreams Some of the recent highlights from guests om The Saturday Blueprint via @TheDailyCoach The Molding of a Leader by James Albright @LeadershipMain 3 Keys To Good Teamwork by @davidburkus Existential hope: How we can embrace…

  • Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should
    by Michael McKinney on April 28, 2023 at 8:00 pm

    SUCCESS is not a destination but a journey. And each achievement opens yet another door to our potential. The achievement feels wonderful, but just when we thought we reached to top, we feel the burden of the invitation to take another step into our newfound potential. We’re in what Laura Gassner Otting identifies as Wonderhell. Wonderhell is that place between who you are and who you are becoming. The wonderful excitement of who you are and the burden (hell) of the realization of who you can become. In Wonderhell: Why Success Doesn’t Feel Like It Should . . . and What to Do About It, Otting presents the ride of your life like entering an amusement park—Wonderhell. And every success invites us back to the entrance to take the ride again. Just when we thought we could rest on our past, we are invited into a future of new opportunities. We step into the Imaginarium, and we can see the new life we want to have. It’s bigger and bolder, and we enter Impostertown. Who am I to take this next step? Who do I think I am? Otting wisely points out that we are not who we think we are. We are not what others think we are. We are who we think others think we are. It’s time to deal with our inner voice. “Standing on the edge of our incompetence” makes us fearful and feel like an imposter. “You could run from this fear. You could…

  • Leading Thoughts for April 27, 2023
    by Michael McKinney on April 27, 2023 at 3:41 pm

    IDEAS shared have the power to expand perspectives, change thinking, and move lives. Here are two ideas for the curious mind to engage with: I. INSEAD professor Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries on wisdom: “Wise people recognize that life moves with an ebb and a flow. There will be highs and lows and there will be peaks and valleys. Life is never going to be an easy ride, but during this journey that is your life there can be discovery, change and growth if that is what you seek. During this journey, you can have a choice: you can acquire wisdom or you can remain blinded. What you decide to do is all up to you. This journey towards wisdom very much implies living in the present, planning for the future, and profiting from the past.” Source: Leading Wisely: Becoming a Reflective Leader in Turbulent Times II. Adam Markel on what’s worth fighting for: “Part of keeping calm is just doing the thing that’s I front of you and not getting your emotions lost in fighting battles about what is fair or unfair. That’s a losing proposition. Even when we’re correct and we’re fighting over what is fair or unfair, we’re losing. There’s right and there’s wrong. That’s different. That’s worth fighting for.” Source: Change Proof: Leveraging the Power of Uncertainty to Build Long-term Resilience * * * Look for these ideas every Thursday on the Leading Blog. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * *…

  • The Pruning Principle
    by Nick Jaworski on October 17, 2022 at 7:00 am

    Botanists will tell you to have a vision for how you want a plant to look before you start pruning it. The same is true for your life and your business. Whether you’re talking about programs, processes, personal commitments, or even people – over time, they all tend to accumulate. You simply end up with more of everything. However, overgrowth impedes your ability to scale yourself and your business. In order to grow, you’re going to have to prune. Continue reading The Pruning Principle at Full Focus.

  • 6 Essential Ingredients for Effective Strategic Planning
    by Nick Jaworski on September 20, 2022 at 7:00 am

    It’s that time of year again. The weather is changing, leaves are falling off the trees, and your favorite leadership podcast is talking about Strategic Planning again. If there’s one thing that humans do well, it’s imagining the future. (We can do it badly, too, of course.) But the important thing is that we can create better outcomes for ourselves and our businesses when we do it intentionally. That’s where Strategic Planning comes in. Continue reading 6 Essential Ingredients for Effective Strategic Planning at Full Focus.

  • How to Avoid Quiet Quitting in Your Business
    by Michael and Megan on September 13, 2022 at 7:00 am

    “Quiet quitting” seems to be the hot topic of conversation in business and leadership circles right now. But what exactly is “quiet quitting”? How can you figure out if your employees are doing it? And, perhaps most importantly, how can you create an organizational culture where your team members will feel empowered in their job?   Continue reading How to Avoid Quiet Quitting in Your Business at Full Focus.

  • 5 Mistakes Business Owners Make When Hiring an Assistant
    by Michael Hyatt on September 6, 2022 at 7:00 am

    You spend your days managing details, scheduling meetings, and replying to emails — by the time you start on the “real work,” the workday is half over. This ends up cutting into your personal life as you try to make up for lost time. It all leads to you feeling more tired, more stressed, and less productive at work and at home. If you heed our advice, you can minimize this pain. The advice is simple: hire an executive assistant! Continue reading 5 Mistakes Business Owners Make When Hiring an Assistant at Full Focus.

  • 4 Ingredients for a Thriving Company Culture
    by Michael and Megan on August 30, 2022 at 7:00 am

    Last week we talked about the importance of a thriving company culture. Hopefully, Michael and Megan made the case that a company culture is both important and the responsibility of the leader. We’re going to continue that conversation by talking about how businesses can actually cultivate a thriving company culture – no matter where they’re starting from.   Continue reading 4 Ingredients for a Thriving Company Culture at Full Focus.

  • Why a Thriving Culture Is Essential
    by Michael Hyatt on August 23, 2022 at 7:00 am

    Anywhere you find a group of people, you’ll find a culture. That’s true for families, churches, cities, neighborhoods, and anything else you can think of that includes more than one person. This idea is especially true for businesses. Leaders need to have a vision for how they want their culture to look and feel. If they don’t, they could find themselves surrounded by a toxic culture that not only hurts business but makes everyone miserable. Continue reading Why a Thriving Culture Is Essential at Full Focus.

  • How to Maximize the Market Value of Your Business in 8 Steps
    by Michael and Megan on August 16, 2022 at 7:00 am

    Your business is probably the largest single asset in your portfolio. You’ve invested time and money, and, one day, you may want to see a healthy return on those investments. If you want to maximize the value of your business, then you should start making plans today. Continue reading How to Maximize the Market Value of Your Business in 8 Steps at Full Focus.

  • What Makes Good Coaching Great
    by Michael Hyatt on August 9, 2022 at 7:00 am

    There is no denying that you will get further, faster with a good coach. But what about a great coach? How much further could you get with amazing coaching? Today’s episode tackles that question by talking with LeeAnn Moody, Director of Performance Coaching for Full Focus. LeeAnn and Michael break down the four characteristics of great coaching and help you identify what you might need to be successful for your organization. Continue reading What Makes Good Coaching Great at Full Focus.

  • What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Remote Work
    by Michael and Megan on August 2, 2022 at 7:00 am

    During the height of the pandemic, everyone was forced to go remote. But, now that offices have opened back up, leaders and staff are confronted with some challenging questions around a seemingly basic concept: Where should work happen? Continue reading What Elon Musk Gets Wrong About Remote Work at Full Focus.

  • The 10/80/10 Principle: Grow Your Business with 20% of the Work
    by Michael and Megan on July 26, 2022 at 7:00 am

    What if you could grow your business and only do about 20% of the work you’re currently doing? If that were true, you would do almost anything to find out how to do it, right? Continue reading The 10/80/10 Principle: Grow Your Business with 20% of the Work at Full Focus.

  • How to Sustain Company Culture During the Pandemic With a Virtual Mentorship Program: A Case Study
    by Danielle Murdaugh on January 17, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    How to Sustain Company Culture During the Pandemic With a Virtual Mentorship Program: A Case Study – Read more by Danielle Murdaugh on Training Industry.

  • Navigating Instructional Design Without Formal Training: 9 Tips for Success
    by Mike Allen on January 12, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    Navigating Instructional Design Without Formal Training: 9 Tips for Success – Read more by Mike Allen on Training Industry.

  • When To Deploy Coaching vs. Training vs. Consulting
    by Mike Allen on January 7, 2022 at 2:00 pm

    When To Deploy Coaching vs. Training vs. Consulting – Read more by Mike Allen on Training Industry.

  • 3 Ways to Improve Organizational Culture and Retention
    by Danielle Murdaugh on December 17, 2021 at 2:00 pm

    3 Ways to Improve Organizational Culture and Retention – Read more by Danielle Murdaugh on Training Industry.

  • Give Customer-facing Employees a Makeover
    by Kevin Brewer on December 15, 2021 at 2:00 pm

    Give Customer-facing Employees a Makeover – Read more by Kevin Brewer on Training Industry.

  • How Workplace Productivity Depends on Training and Development
    by Kevin Brewer on December 10, 2021 at 2:00 pm

    How Workplace Productivity Depends on Training and Development – Read more by Kevin Brewer on Training Industry.

  • Accelerate Your Career Growth With Sponsorship
    by Sarah Gallo on December 9, 2021 at 1:30 pm

    Accelerate Your Career Growth With Sponsorship – Read more by Sarah Gallo on Training Industry.

  • Lessons Learned From Talking to 53 Sales Managers
    by Mike Allen on December 2, 2021 at 2:00 pm

    Lessons Learned From Talking to 53 Sales Managers – Read more by Mike Allen on Training Industry.

  • What We’re Hearing for the Modern Workplace: Upskilling Acts in Concert With Talent Objectives
    by Sarah Gallo on November 30, 2021 at 1:30 pm

    What We’re Hearing for the Modern Workplace: Upskilling Acts in Concert With Talent Objectives – Read more by Sarah Gallo on Training Industry.

  • Make Learning Sticky Through Deliberate Reinforcement: How One Organization Used Learning Reinforcement Plans To Increase Learner Retention
    by Mike Allen on November 24, 2021 at 2:00 pm

    Make Learning Sticky Through Deliberate Reinforcement: How One Organization Used Learning Reinforcement Plans To Increase Learner Retention – Read more by Mike Allen on Training Industry.

  • Help Leaders Be Better at Running the Business
    by Kevin Brewer on October 28, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    Help Leaders Be Better at Running the Business – Read more by Kevin Brewer on Training Industry.

  • Improve Training Effectiveness With VR: A Future-forward Case Study
    by Kevin Brewer on October 26, 2021 at 1:00 pm

    Improve Training Effectiveness With VR: A Future-forward Case Study – Read more by Kevin Brewer on Training Industry.

  • Why Lateral Moves Are Beneficial to Your Career
    by Sarah Gallo on October 5, 2021 at 1:11 pm

    Why Lateral Moves Are Beneficial to Your Career – Read more by Sarah Gallo on Training Industry.

  • 5 Tips for Communicating Under Pressure
    by Sarah Gallo on September 7, 2021 at 12:00 pm

    5 Tips for Communicating Under Pressure – Read more by Sarah Gallo on Training Industry.

  • How L&D Can Create a Human-centered Workplace
    by Sarah Gallo on August 12, 2021 at 1:18 pm

    How L&D Can Create a Human-centered Workplace – Read more by Sarah Gallo on Training Industry.

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