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Diversity and Style = Value

Diversity helps your team achieve outstanding successTaking On a Complex Topic The question that caused me to write this blog post came from a...

The Horse and His Boy

Be a student of leadership – especially in difficult times.

Trust and Social Capital

Do others seek your counsel or advice on things that matter?When Others Seek You Out for Advice - You are Trusted and have Social Capital An...

Five Hacks to Make Virtual Meetings Awesome

Be engaging, interesting, effective, interactive, and outstanding.Every Leader Needs these Hacks Yikes, we find ourselves in a virtual world almost...

What Makes a Leader Memorable?

They believe in you. They care about your success.Memorable Leaders Have Common Attributes To answer the question, "What Makes a Leader Memorable?"...

Why Leaders Fail

There is really only one reason.It's Worth Learning About - Why Leaders Fail? This question came from a university student of mine who sincerely...

The Delicate Art of Leveraging a Mentor

Growing your career is NOT a chance event.Growing Your Career Growing a career is not a chance event. If you are leaving your future career...

Delegating Must be a Two-Way Street

Delegating seems to be a difficult skill to master.The Most Common Leadership Issue As a leadership consultant the most common leadership issue I...

Building Social Capital with Peers

Do your peers ask for your input and perspective?The Importance of Working with Peers We start by watching this 3-minute management tip from Harvard...

Three Strategies to Become a Good Leader

Leadership is all about relationships.A Relationship Approach that Includes You “Leadership is not a person or a position. It is a complex moral...

Are You a Trusted Leader?

Find out with this short self-assessment.Self-Assess Yourself as a Trusted leader At Leaders247 we build micro-assessments that leaders can quickly...

15-Minutes of Power

Personal Productivity is All About FocusHow to Get Your Most Important Work Done If you are like me it takes too long to get focused on the work...

Your Leadership Time is Critical

Introducing an Agile Prioritization Model that Works for Leaders Does this Feel Familiar? You wake up. You try to get the day started in a healthy...

When to Critique

For many years I coached my Grandson - Jackson in soccer. Unfortunately, I was not able to coach him this particular season. The other day I watched...

Positive Energizers

"Grandpa, it was a great day.” Marie Diane Hansen One of the most powerful highlights on being positive came from my Granddaughter. She was...

Keys to Creating Awesome Teams

Creating awesome teams is an art and it requires that you care deeply about the big picture. In this excellent short video from...

Ethics is the Heart of Leadership

Ethics is the heart of leadership, which is the title of one of my favorite books on both leadership and ethics.[i] The author, Joanne...

Chiune Sugihara – How Ethics Shapes Leadership

If you were the Japanese Consul in Lithuania during WWII and your government instructed you that you could not issue transit visas to Jews to leave...