Good Ideas In The Workplace: 8 Surprising Ways You Block Them
Home I have to admit that I have not met a business owner, a CEO or a leader who ever claimed to NOT want good ideas from their team or employees. As a matter of fact, you genuinely want to hear new ideas, even when those ideas challenge current approaches or come from unexpected sources. […]
Mastering Delegation: 7 Actionable Steps to Raise Your Efficiency
Home Mastering Delegation. Just as it stands alone in the sentence above, when it is a problem in the operations of a small business, it has no competition. And I totally get it. You built your business on a foundation of blood, sweat and fear. You know that overnight success takes at least 1o years. […]
Top 10 Leadership Success Secrets For Explosive Personal Growth
Home “Do you have any leadership success secrets you can share with us, Ms Barrow?” the young entrepreneur asked eagerly. “I might…but I like to keep my secrets close to my chest!” I replied mischievously. Seriously though…his request did get me thinking… You see, I have been in leadership positions all my life. From captain of my […]
Become an Authentic Leader: Cut These 10 Useless Practices Now
Home There I was, minding my business…Well, not really…I was minding the business of an “authentic leader”. He was in the gym with some other businessmen and they had entered my space. I was impressed by the bicep curls and the triceps kickbacks. But I was alarmed by the way they were beating up on […]
How To Really Improve Your Leadership Problem-solving Process
Home “Leadership problem-solving process?” What’s that? And why do you think I would need such a thing?” As you would expect a good consultant to, I sat quietly and listened to my potential client. You see, he had contacted me because he was trying hard to build his team. And according to him, whenever they had a problem […]
Conflict Management: How to Make It Your Best Leadership Tool
Home Before I discuss how to make conflict management your best leadership tool, perhaps we should step back and take a quick look at leadership first. Very simply, leadership is the process of getting things done through people. To get things done through people, you must be able to exert significant influence over those people. For me, […]
Make Decisions That Will Last In 7 Smart, Easy Steps
Home I knew I was procrastinating but sometimes I hate when I have to make decisions. So there I was…suspended between writing a blog post and completing the documents for my Top Level Speakers Program. Then my phone rang. On the phone was my fave business colleague and friend, inviting me to “a quick power lunch.” In […]
Team Building: 7 Ways To Quickly Build A Highly Effective Team
Home “What’s all this foolishness about highly effective team building? You mean to say, that after I hire people, and pay them good money, I have to build them into a team too?” These questions came from a small business owner, “Ronald” who was invited to the luncheon by his friend. I felt the annoyance in the […]
How to Lead Your Team to Amazing Success? Start Here!
Home “You must be Lorna! Please tell me you know something about how to lead! Leaders must really be born…because I am no leader and I have made a complete mess of my business! And… “Whoa! Hold up Buddy! Good Morning…you must be Mike!” I offered brightly as I complete my entry into the room […]
Why Is Coaching Now One of The Most Powerful Business Tools?
Home “Coaching!? You are an idiot! This is not a football game, this is a workplace! Whew! This onslaught was the result of a gentle suggestion to one of my small business clients. Poor me, I had simply suggested that he may need to access or acquire coaching skills. I went on to add that […]
How to Find The Money Sweet Spot in Your Leadership Context
Home “Unique Leadership Context? Wha you coming wid now? That was the response I got when I asked my group of small business leaders if they knew their unique leadership context. As I explained to them, business leadership does not happen in a vacuum. Each leader has his or her own unique mix of operational […]
6 Unusual Signs of Business Incompetence You Need to Know
Home Business incompetence is like a global epidemic. And like any true epidemic, while it is widespread, there are pockets of higher concentration in certain areas. Unfortunately, one of these areas of high concentration appears to be in small and medium size businesses. “Not mine!” I can hear you shout. I can even hear you pound […]
Building teams? Discover 7 Proven Ways Not to Fail
Home If you are between the ages of 15 and 70 and you have not heard how important building teams is for business, please step off the planet. Are you the owner of a small business with 3 or more employees? And you haven’t spared a single thought for building teams? then please, contact me when you […]