New Work Revolution

Growing a business and using the growth to do give back to communities in need. Stepping out of your comfort zone of a regular 9-5 gig to jump into the entrepreneurship realm These and a few other topics come up in this week’s episode of the New Work Revolution podcast.  I interviewed the founder of […]

How much room do you give an employee who is consistently failing?  If you truly care about them and their career, I wouldn’t give them much room to continue failing.  You may worry about being mean if you follow up too closely or micro-managing.  Some people just need more support. Time is another issue that […]

When you place an ad to attract someone to employment, you are looking for someone to choose and make a potential commitment to your organization.  Not only are you looking for talent but hundreds to thousands of other companies are doing this as well.  Making your business sound interesting is the first step to building […]

When issues with your team come up, it’s easy to put on your fixer hat and diagnose the problem at the surface and then give a solution to that problem.  The challenge with this approach is that the problem never seems to go away.  It keeps coming back again and again. Before I address an […]

This week’s episode features a special guest, entrepreneur and author, Michael Alden.  Alden has a simple message for everyone.  He wants to know what your life would look like if you gave five percent more? Giving five percent more is one of those concepts that is easy to understand (give more effort) but also hard […]

I am a doer and have been a doer my whole life. Because of this, I have to resist the urge to try and get “everything done” in my life.  There are some things that are worth doing and some things that are best left to someone else.  I had to learn to engage in […]

Being a boss and being in charge doesn’t mean you have to be a jerk.  Some owners get so worried about not coming across a certain way, they let too much slide. If you don’t take charge, someone else will.  As a business owner, how can you be the boss at the most effective level? […]

Premature delegation.  So frustrating.  So unsatisfying. You have the money.  You have the desire.  You hire someone and then….utter disaster. It wasn’t who you hired as much as it was when you hired. You weren’t ready.  You didn’t understand enough about what you were delegating. At some point in time you realize that, as the […]

In the past four episodes of the New Work Revolution podcast, I have taken you through four steps to engaging in tough conversations in a healthy way.  The process sounds nice in theory but people are unpredictable, they don’t always play the way you want them to.  Tough conversations at work part 5 is about […]

What happens when your own hypocrisy as a leader becomes your own undoing in business?  You create a situation where everything you say is absolute bullshit to everyone who hears it.  As a leader, credibility is one of your main currencies at work.  When you lose that, you lose your team and you lose results. […]

You are a leader because you are resourceful and you get shit done.  Because of experience, training, etc, you have a vantage point that people who work for you don’t see.  It can be easy to use your particular power and vantage point to educate your team on “the right way” to get things done. […]

If you missed the last episode on Tough Conversations at work, make sure you go back and listen to it here.  Being supportive is an important first step to having tough conversations at work.  Step two is where you may see yourself running off the tracks in a tough conversation.  Step two is about being […]

Having tough conversations is one the most difficult things to do as a leader.  Who wants to make people feel bad or worse, what if they quit as a result?  In light of a recent confrontation prep sheet that I put together for a client, I thought it would be a good idea to walk […]

“I don’t know.” “If I knew what was wrong, I would have already fixed it.” We have all said these things.  Thought them.  Agonized over a lack of answers for a particular dilemma.  Problems come up everyone.  Even Jay-Z had 99 of them. If you find yourself saying the above things a lot.  There may […]

When it comes to be being productive, there are a lot of different schools of thought around what works and what doesn’t. One thing that has been shown to help you be more productive is taking time off.  It’s good for your brain, you end up doing more etc. Josh Pastner, newly minted basketball coach […]

If you want your team to feel unsafe, stop communicating with them.  Once a lack of communication gap open up, it allows for fear, doubt, worry, gossip and starts to derail productivity in the business. If you ever have points in time where you aren’t communicating effectively, it’s probably not because you want to be […]

When I first started coaching, I was all head and no heart.  People hired me for my knowledge and expertise but I learned quickly that clients wanted their information brought to them in a more appealing way.  You can be the best in the world at what you do but if you fail to connect […]

We humans are an interesting bunch.   When we see other people not getting results, particularly those that we care about or have personally invested in, it’s easy to assume that a lack of results is from a lack of caring.  When I confront behavior, I want to cut through the bullshit and get to […]

If you want to breed excitement in your business, you first have to work on building it. If you aren’t excited about what’s going and what’s possible in your business, how the hell is anyone else supposed to get there.  Inspiration is a great tool to build excitement in your business. It’s easy to get […]