Integrative Leadership Strategies
leadership INSIGHTS
How to Identify Your Team’s Values (it’s not what you think)
Leaders, if you're planning to do a values exercise with your team, you'll get the most accurate answer to the question "what are our values?" not by making a lofty list of what the team might value in a utopian workplace, but by looking at actual recent team behavior.
Elevate Your Year: The Power of Habit Stacking
Connecting your new habit directly to something you already do in your daily routine increases the likelihood you will follow through with it.
Increase Serendipity in Your Problem Solving
We don't realize how often our questions stay in the realm of answers we already think we have.
Dealing with Disintegration
For some, the New Year may not exactly feel like a fresh start. Over the holiday break I spent time thinking about the people in my life who hope that 2024 is better for them than 2023 was, for mostly personal reasons. So if you're like them and you're in the thick of it right now, but you hope a new leaf does get turned this year eventually, consider these ideas.
Seven Keys to Managing Up
If you struggle to relate to, feel comfortable with, approach or understand your boss, the following seven keys may help you manage ‘up’.
What to do When Your Employee Wants a Promotion
How to respond to an employee who wants a promotion involves integrative thinking, understanding their real need, and acknowledging their strengths.
Talk About it as a Team
Working harder and working smarter to achieve business goals will not address team dynamics. The best thing you can do is bring it to the team as a whole.
Teach Your Team to Wrestle with Ideas, Not Each Other
As a leader it’s your job to help your team engage in healthy conflict around ideas.
Use the 3 C’s to Delegate More Effectively
To delegate more effectively try using the 3 C’s.