How do we increase the odds of “winning” with the team we have? At the beginning of any game, everyone starts with the same number of players on the board.  And in the rush to get things done, we focus on moving those players around the best we can.  If we’re good, we might win. […]

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Are there any leadership exercises I can do? Someone asked this question recently, and I thought it was a good one.  Learning leadership is tricky business.  It’s not like practicing musical scales or pumping iron at the gym. But I do think there are exercises we can do to become more effective leaders.  Whether we […]

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Did you know that organizations have a life cycle?  In this video, we’ll talk about what the stages of that life cycle are, and how you can adjust your leadership approach to successfully lead your team in every stage. The Edge Technique for Teaching In a previous post we talked about the EDGE technique as […]

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A long while ago, Benjamin Franklin said “Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.”  He was right – the best learning involves doing, and the more the better.  Here’s a simple strategy you can use to structure your instruction so that what you are trying to […]

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