Empowering Leadership and Music Articles
Each article uses our empower framework that we also use for our leadership coaching services.
observing Patience…
Our boss had hired a consultant to come in "help our Team be more productive". It was like the LAST thing I really wanted to do. First, we were not a team - more a collection...
Partners for Patience…
We were in a bad place. We had sold software that we had barely started writing, and the customer was figuring it out through a series of conversations that had made it up the...
Patient management…
Those two words have NEVER been used with me... until I had to. It was the only thing that would work, at scale, with a global team. Being random and abstract is lots of fun, and...
Patiently engaging…
You may not realize it, but not only have I been working on an artist each week, but these themes have also been building. So after Virtue, comes Patience... well, after someone...
The renewal of Delegation…
If you feel bad about how effective you are with Delegation, look at God. As we like to say these days "... you had one job.....". He set up... wait for it.. the ENTIRE...
Delegation execution…
"Every time I give them something to do, I have to redo it. Spelling errors, grammar, all of it!" Gently I suggested ... "... you have trained them to do that". "OH no! I am...
The wonder of Delegation…
Watching my grandkids, you watch as they slowly begin to control the world around them. Their first tool is crying, which puzzled young parents eventually figure out the...
What do you observe in Delegation?
My love of jazz was cultivated over years, noticing that I studied better with songs that didn't have lyrics. Not that I don't appreciate great lyrics, but it frees my mind to...
Your partners in Delegation…
In the process of looking for a new Senior VP of our business, I was on the interview team. While I would not be reporting to this person, he would be leading the business teams...
Managing Delegation….
"Delegation is a math problem. If you can figure out how to have 5 others do the work you could do even 50 % as well as you, you will be 250% more effective." That was the way...
How do you engage Delegation?
As things are stabilizing this fall, more and more people are offering on-line workshops. The ability to teach to an audience that can be global, without having to rent a room,...
Navigate and renew your Positive Intelligence…
Like Activate, Navigate moves you forward...I finished a different class last week with over 60 coaches from all across the globe. It has been confusing for my wife as I have...
Activate and execute Positive Intelligence!
Activate helps you execute..So long as we are taking a brief tour of my Father's gifts to me, there was this jem - "Engage Brain before putting Mouth in Gear". And with as many...
wonder about Innovating Positive Intelligence
Innovate is a wonder to behold...One of the great gifts my Father gave me was an ability to turn things around. He had a famous saying that rings in my ears daily: "If you can't...
Explore while observing Positive Intelligence
observing you will find Sage Explore..."Slow Down." "What are you not seeing here?" These were not easy, natural shifts for me. Rushing to the "right" answer, jumping forward...
partner with Sage Empathize for Positive Intelligence
The partners you need are 5 Sage voices... That is probably the longest I have written about "negative" things in a long time. The way the Positive Intelligence material is...
The Controller Positively mis-manages Intelligence
The Controller gives the illusion of managingStratocasters are amazing instruments, particularly in the hands of a true master like Eric. After the gifts he purchased, he had a...
Does Positive Intelligence engage your Victim?
When The Victim engages... When I put the "setlist" together for these two weeks, can you believe I didn't have Layla anywhere? It is such a classic Clapton song that I wasn't...
Restless renewal of Positive Intelligence…
Both Restless and renew start with "r"...As often happens, today's post was penciled in first. This is my last remaining personal Saboteur and the one that I think guides all of...
Avoiding executing with Positive Intelligence?
The Avoider can execute on auto-pilot... Being caught between Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, Eric more and more just wanted to be a small-time blues guitar player. Hard to pull...