By Keeping Up With Changing Times, You Won’t Be Left Behind
Whether you are an intern, a tenured employee, a CEO, or a small business owner, there is a crucial principle to follow. Everyone needs to be constantly aware of what can be done more efficiently in your chosen field. Keeping up with changing times will allow you, or...
Keys to Success for Healthcare Teams Post COVID-19
Team building is crucial to any team across all industries, but as I personally learn to juggle keeping the balance at home, as well as at work, while conforming to new systems, one industry consistently flashes in my mind: Healthcare. The healthcare industry will...
7 Ways to Stay Motivated and Productive Working from Home!
After leaving a fifteen-year career in finance where I commuted about thirty minutes to a very plain-vanilla looking office every day, I found myself suddenly working from home. Although I loved my new found freedom, I quickly learned I could piddle away the day all...
Shutting Down States Was an Extreme Overreaction
Note to All Governors: Be the Leader You Were Elected to Be. Shutting Down States Was an Extreme Overreaction and May Kill More People than the Coronavirus. On Friday, our Governor, Gregg Abbott began the "reopen" process for Texas. He created a process called "retail...
The Art of (Re) Invention
"Change is the only constant in life." This quote comes from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who lived 500 years before Jesus Christ. Think of the amount of change that has occurred in our world in over 25-hundred years! The earth has changed, wars fought, empires...
Leading a Virtual Team-How to Lead Your Team Remotely
With the Covid-19 crisis of 2020, many companies have had to adjust to managing remote teams on the fly. For the first 15 years that The Leaders Institute ® existed, we operated entirely remotely. In fact, we went through the opposite of what companies in early 2020...
Reinforce Positive Behavior – How to Give and Receive a Compliment
Once we start coaching our team, we want to consistently reinforce positive behavior that we see. The best way to reinforce positive behavior is with a strength-centered compliment. In this session, we will show you, step-by-step, how to give and receive a compliment....
Tipping Point: Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity in a Uncertain World
Stress is not all bad or all good. We all have good and bad stressors in our lives. Positive stress helps us accomplish our goals and achieve tasks, while negative stress tends to spike our anxiety and cause discouragement. Today we are going to walk through the ways...
7 Valuable Ways to Build a Cooperative and Effective Team
The third stage of organizational development is to build a cooperative and effective team. This stage of leadership development is progressive. So, you will get the best results if you have already spent some time on steps one and two. As a review, the first phase...
Experience is the Best Teacher. Really? Maybe Not.
Who said that experience is the best teacher? Well, just about everyone who has ever taken a class on a subject and who later struggled to apply the content. In fact, one of the reasons why we attract so many people to our leadership classes is that we understand that...
How To Work With Difficult People
Working With Difficult People Studying why humans interact the way they do has always fascinated me. Especially when it comes to how they respond to conflict. For example, have you ever been to a restaurant and hear someone at a table cause a scene over a minor detail...
The Difference Between Constructive and Destructive Criticism
I have to admit that I am uncomfortable when given constructive criticism. You know why? Because I'm human. Guess what... You are too. (You are also human.) So, if most people are uncomfortable receiving constructive criticism, is it really constructive? In addition,...