Tag: mental-health
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You Don’t Have a Culture Problem. You Have an Alignment Problem.
Do you feel like you have no time? Not enough money to fund resources? Working every week in semi organized chaos? Your team feels disconnected and culture is slipping? Priorities keep changing, so nobody knows what the actual priorities are anymore? If so, you’re not alone. In fact, these are some of the most common…
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Commit to Believing in Each Other
I have coached players who were more talented.I have worked with staff who had more experience.Yet some of the most successful people I have ever worked with had something others did not.Someone believed in them before they believed in themselves.Belief is a powerful thing.It instills confidence.Positivity.Support.We already know that pessimists and negative people do not…
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The Power of Staying Positive When Everything Gets Hard
In the spirit of my recent keynote and Jon Gordon’s The 7 Commitments of a Great Team, I want to take a deep dive into one of the most powerful commitments a team can make: commit to staying positive. This is not about pretending everything is perfect. It is not about ignoring challenges. It is…
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Why Leaders Struggle With Difficult Conversations and How to Fix It
I am really struggling with one of the managers I oversee right now. They are not getting the job done. I hear this all too often. To which I respond, “have you discussed things with them and designed a plan?” “Well, I told them they were not meeting deadlines, and it was holding the team…
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If You’re Working 50 Hours Every Week, Something’s Broken
If you are working 50 plus hours every single week, something is wrong. Yes, there are seasons. Yes, there are big events. Yes, there are weeks where the workload spikes. But if this is happening every week, all the time, then one of two things is true: You don’t have balance or You’re not aligned…
