The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni Order on Amazon Our Overall Rating: 9.5/10 Usefulness Rating: 9.5/10 Stretch Your Thinking Rating: 8/10 Our Main Take-away: Managing or working on a team [...]
A Consistent Message: Spell It Out with a Story By Chris Ihrig Employee engagement is at troublingly low levels. For more than a decade, engagement hovered around 30%. Then, in 2018, the Gallup Organization reported that engagement had dropped to 15%. To counteract low engagement, managers are encouraged to share the mission, vision, values, goals, [...]
Remote Teams – Getting Comfortable By Chris Ihrig The job market has only been this tight twice in my lifetime. This assumes you were alive in ’69. It has me thinking about ways to attract and keep talent with this much competition. Of course, there are the traditional things like raising salaries and adding benefits [...]
Positive Psychology Insights: Rumination for Individuals and Teams By Chris Ihrig Creating an environment of excellence requires good people and good knowledge. After Martin E. P. Seligman announced that the study of psychology needed to look at and understand what makes us do well and not just what illness looks like, insights about how to increase [...]
Planning for a Fired Up Year By Chris Ihrig Pre-plan Your Success A brand new year inspires big dreams. A new year makes us feel optimistic and hopeful but the truth is, next year will be a lot like this year, unless we change. Changing can be difficult or frightening. Would it be easier to [...]
Open Doors: How to Have the Time By Chris Ihrig Open-door policies are encouraged as a way to improve morale. When employees feel able to express their ideas, concerns, and complaints, they feel heard. When employees feel they are heard, they are more likely to remain engaged. Open doors can also be a source of [...]
Mindful Leadership By Chris Ihrig Mindfulness is a practice where you are encouraged to stay non-judgmental in the current moment while being aware of your thoughts, emotions, and experiences. The problem with mindful leadership is that leading requires us to make judgments all day long. We can’t withhold judgment when we observe an employee who [...]
Struggling to Hit Your Goals? By Chris Ihrig Is Your Resolve Faltering? Don’t Worry – Help Is on The Way Only 8% of people achieve their New Year’s resolutions. If your resolve is faltering, you’re not alone. It’s also not a character flaw. We tend to think that people who set and achieve goals are [...]
Is Every Leader Coachable? By Chris Ihrig Coaching leaders is a common practice, but the results organizations see are inconsistent. Is there a way to know before investing in a coach whether a leader is coachable? Or, are leaders who don’t seem coachable simply not ready to begin in the same place as a leader [...]
Is Positive Emotion More Important Than Job Satisfaction? By Chris Ihrig Decades of research has left us with 30% employee engagement levels that haven’t budged in more than a decade. What are we missing? Over the years I’ve heard many arguments against employee happiness including: 1. Happiness is fluffy, it doesn’t add value. 2. You [...]
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