What’s the difference between a Big A Agenda and a little a agenda? How do you use both as a leader? If your leadership team is not working as effectively as you’d like, one place to look is the effectiveness of your meetings. And to have effective meetings, you need to have a good agenda….
If you are a leader, “What’s next?” is what people want to know from you. People are looking to you – not necessarily for the specific answer, but to set a direction and agenda. Whether and how you prepare yourself to lead “what’s next” makes a huge difference in your effectiveness as a leader. You…
A coaching client recently started off a call with “Well, I’ve got this ‘pie in the sky’ idea.” She sounded really flat and dejected. “Pie in the sky” is an expression used to refer to a sham promise or to any prospect of future happiness which is unlikely ever to be realized. The phrase was…
One of Steve Chandler’s 18 Disciplines for enrolling coaching clients is to “sell the experience, not the concept.” Rather than abstractly describe what you do, actually do it so that the client’s decision is to “continue, not to start.” Our enrollment conversations are likely the first substantial experience our potential clients have with us. Of…
As I wrote recently, conducting monthly business reviews comes with a downside – as the leader you must deal with what you learn about your business and your leadership team. (Actually it is only a downside if you view it as such – it really is an opportunity to learn the facts about your business.)…