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Pat Lencioni wrote Getting Naked – the most personally influential book I’ve read this year. He’s the heart and soul behind The Table Group – a uniquely organized consulting agency. And – he emailed this column to his subscribers on October 14, 2011. It is reprinted here because I want everyone of my clients and Continue reading Pat Lencioni on “Difficult Employees” One of 11 participants uses the Strengths SIGN Wheel to help him identify specifc activities that make him feel strong. The FREE Interview is one of the most powerful tools we provide in the Strengths Essentials Workshop. Posted from the very point of inspiration with WordPress for BlackBerry. Continue reading I feel strong . . . Twenty-eight people representing about a dozen companies gathered at Tyndale House Publishing on September 8 to partcipate in a half-day Strengths Essentials Workshop. What a great group. They asked good questions, challenged each other and stayed engaged. Each student finished at least two Strength Statements and have the foundation for playing to their strengths Continue reading Strengths Essentials workshop Sep 8 The StrengthsCampus team recently awarded a prize to a member who submitted the best video story of their personal strengths journey. Kenny Flamer was selected as the winner. In his comments about the video, Marcus said we all have a “precise genius” inside us and that it takes time to find and develop that genius. Continue reading Kenny’s “Strength Story” It’s easy to be lulled into a sense that your current plans are going to get you where you want to be – specially when the road ahead appears to be clear of anything that might cause deviation. Don’t be caught in the Paradox of Success. Reliance on past or current success for future Continue reading No curves in sight Pity the lowly manager. We have a preponderant preoccupation with leaders, leadership and leading these days. I did a quick Google search and found 30,200,000 pages mentioning “great leaders” and half that many for “great managers.” We worship leaders and tolerate managers. Leaders are followed (often blindly) while managers are obeyed. Leaders paint pictures of Continue reading In praise of managers Chatting recently with a young executive who has great insights into the value of maximizing time. His approach at work is to understand his strengths and those of his team and then look for opportunities to apply each person’s abilities toward the best possible result. He has embraced the truth that team performance is linked Continue reading The cost of lost opportunity Is it counter intuitive for a certified strengths trainer to post an entry focused on weaknesses? My friend Andrew Cooley sent this video clip from a Washington Post series and it resonated so strongly with me that I just had to share it with my readers. Watching this clip is well worth the 4:40 of Continue reading Things at which I suck I was driving on highway 101 near Salinas, CA on Thursday when I happened upon a service truck with the company name Leadership Fumigation. Is this some kind of service that goes into corporate board rooms and executive suites to rid the company of its management team? Could the company by chance be owned by Continue reading Pulling your company name out of a hat |
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