3 Reasons Your Leadership Sucks…and how to improve it.

Tools and Techniques for effective team leadership. Whether you have the title of leader or not you can learn something. 3 Reasons Your Leadership Sucks…and how to improve it. View more presentations from michael cardus. With the idea of leadership being a philosophy of the individual, many individuals have a limited idea of what and … Continued

Coaching Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs

I had to pleasure of serving as the opening speaker for the Allstate Minority and Women Emerging Entrepreneurs Program Center for Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership School of Management University at Buffalo, NY. The facilitated speech and opening session lasted one and a half hours, focused on creating accountability and connection between the new program attendees … Continued

Employees feel Hand-Cuffed to their Jobs

“If they don’t like the way things are (i.e. policy, regulations, supervisors) no one is forcing them to stay hear.” I cringe because this is not reality. There is choice and there is CHOICE. Choice is things that have minimum impact on your life and other commitments – call these secondary choices; what shirt to … Continued

Leadership Levels have Different Indicators of Success

One area that is common to all is a need for the skill in “Learning Agility.” This indicates that for effective leadership (as well in life) the ability to learn and apply the new learning is across the board is necessary.

How can team building be effective?

Within a team building program participants are encouraged to do things that scare them, to push their comfort zone to create and connect new brain based synapses and discover new ways of approaching and solving problems.   Managers and leaders are encouraged to create procedures and policies that encourage people to follow proven “trails” to … Continued

Team Building Training Program for 2 people?

  Evan asked; We have recently fielded a request for a team-building workshop, and I would welcome any ideas or unique approaches as to how to proceed for maximum impact. The request came from a local school in our area. The Pre-K teacher and her teacher’s aide found that they had some extra development money, … Continued

Leader’s responsibility to develop team members to spot problems

Learning and Development not being a multiple choice fill-in-the-blank process. The philosophy of developing the team to have a greater knowledge base and facilitating them to spot problems before they arise.   When working with an organization for an extended period, team members start to lose the ability to detect problems. Why?    These problems … Continued

Teams Where Choice is Innovation and Engagement

The concept of Self-Directed and Other-Directed is that self-directed people believe they have a choice and stay accountable for actions and projects. While other-directed people believe they have no options but to comply and take revenge on your company and act like a victim. When you ask a self-directed person to do a task, their … Continued

Perceptions of Challenge Courses We have already done that

Working with corporate clients.Many of them have given me the pleasure of consulting for many years now. At this point know and have a good idea of my bag of tricks have dialed in to ask me the questions to receive the answers they need. How does this apply to Challenge courses and Ropes Courses … Continued

Team Decisions for Added Value

What value are you giving to your organization? We spend time thinking “What are they doing for me?” This thought creates resentment and a victim mentality within yourself. By acting like a victim you start to keep score, a typical response of a team member who keeps score is “I always have to load the … Continued