Teach Employees the Business of your Business
Your employees are making decisions right now. How do they now the best ones if they don’t know the business of your business?
Holly Green
Leadership
Leading Cultural Change
Is your organization currently going through (or recently undergone) a major cultural transformation? If so, you’re like more than half (56.8%) the organizations that participated in a survey by I4CP, a leading human capital research firm. On the one hand, I’m surprised to see the number that high. After all, transformational change is really…
Implementing Big Business Leadership In A Small Business
Running a successful business, no matter how big or small, starts and ends with effective leadership. This involves defining a clear destination; getting everyone focused on reaching that destination; informing, inspiring and engaging people to get there; and then measuring results and adjusting as necessary along the way. These leadership principles apply to all types…
How To Build Real Accountability
Accountability –an obligation or willingness to accept responsibility or to account for one’s actions Accountability is a word that gets tossed around a lot in the business world these days. Unfortunately, most of what I hear revolves around the lack of accountability rather than how companies are winning by holding each other accountable. At…
Set Up Your Team To Be Successful
The first month of 2016 has already come and gone. By now you’ve (hopefully) set your primary strategic goals for the year, pinpointed the destination, and painted a clear picture of what winning looks like for your organization. The next step involves one of the most important leadership roles and skills – setting up everyone…
Five More Ways to Sustain Your Innovation Efforts
Innovation often requires us to think and act differently from the way the human brain likes to operate. For example, some of the most important innovation leadership skills require conscious effort to override the brain’s innate tendency to see what it wants to see. These include: Challenging your assumptions Changing your perspective Asking the…
Expert Interview Series: Developing Leadership
I was recently interviewed by John Mattone as part of their Expert Interview program. Read the interview and let me know what you think! Click here: Holly_Green_Expert_Interview_Series
10 Clichés Leaders Use (and How to Avoid Them)
Holly welcomes guest blogger Sarah Landrum- As a leader, one of your responsibilities, among other things, is to make sure you and your employees remain on the same page. If you do that by bombarding them with clichés , however, it is likely you’ll end up with a team of bored, unmotivated and jaded people….
Are You an Elite Leader?
A simple definition of elite leadership can be hard to pin down, but we all know it when we see it. I’ve been studying and working with elite leaders for years – from military teams to Olympic athletes and high performing work teams – and it’s obvious when I meet them. But what is it,…
Appreciating the Best of the Best
2013 is drawing to a close and it has been one heck of a year. My husband and I settled into a new home in Denver this year. Our daughter had her fourth knee surgery and continues her college journey. She is now a junior. Our son graduated from college and got his first ‘real’…
Zombie Management: 5 Tips to Keep Your Team from Going Brain Dead
Have you seen the latest Zombie apocalypse movie, World War Z? Sure, it’s way over the top (what Zombie movie isn’t?). But it’s a lot of fun, as long as you don’t expect too much. And I came away intrigued with one of the concepts in the movie. The main character, Gerry (played by Brad…
Open Up and Say AHHHHHH: Time for a Midyear Check Up
Summer’s here and we’re almost at the midpoint of the calendar year. Which means the #1 question on every business leader’s mind should be: how are we doing on our journey to winning? To find out, it’s time – once again – to check in with the strategic plan to see where things stand. I…
