Cultivating culture requires intentionality. It takes focus. It takes soft skills. Cultivating culture will sharpen your emotional intelligence. It begins with you! In contrast, any one of the following obstacles can get…

Health Trumps Smarts! How to Cultivate Workplace Culture Cultivating workplace culture is more than having a team building event off-site twice per year. Whether we realize it or not, all our actions…

Align your team around a common vision by following this process. Let's face it, if everyone on your team thought as you do, you would have better results, right? Well, maybe. But…

Every team member has a job to do or a role (responsibility), an agreement on the desired results (accountability) and a limit to their decision making or boundaries with which they can apply resources or make decisions (authority).

High trust begins with high communication. By this I mean an open door policy but it means more than that. Being a combative supervisor or a micro manager and having an open…

Intentional focus involves focus on the task at hand. But, and a strong but, the focus needs to be in alignment with the over arching mission. How do we ensure this happens?…

Sense of urgency. Deep down inside every team member wants to work on a high performing team whether they realize it or not. Every supervisor wants to be able to respond quickly…

So, how do we influence employee creativity? The next time your team is gathered ask them this question, "By show of hands, how many of you feel like we have recognized and…

Ensure accountability and be accountable. In another post, I discussed responsibility, authority and accountability (RAA's). All three are equally important but accountability is so important it deserves some special attention. Why Accountability?…