High Impact Leaders

Companies Have an Absolute Need for Team Building During Covid 19. Over the past six months, both employees and managers have experienced a roller coaster of emotions. We have all experienced tremendous fear, loneliness, anger, frustration, and confusion. Then, just when we begin to feel optimistic, we experience a new challenge that pulls the rug out from under us. These emotional ups and downs t...

Word-of-mouth advertising is one of the cheapest and most effective types of advertising your company can invest in, but how do we generate this elusive type of advertising? Most experts in the area will say, “Get out and ‘network’.” So we go to a Chamber of Commerce business card exchange or another type of networking event. Of course, their main purpose in coming is to promote their company or s...

I took my first leadership training course back almost 20 years ago. It did more for me than all of the education that I worked very hard for in High School and College. This single class was more valuable than all of the seminars that my former employers provided me. In fact, I got more benefit from that course than all of the conventions I went to and all of the books and trade journals that I h...

Leadership and management skills are not coded into our DNA. These skills are honed over time through study, research, experimentation, and sometimes… trial and error. One of the things that can be challenging for managers and leaders, even during optimal times, is motivating your team. When a crisis is going on, though, the difficulty of keeping your team motivated increases dramatically. What Ac...

Want to become the “Go-To” expert in your industry? One of the easiest ways to drive prospective clients and customers to your business is to become “the” expert in your field. The term Expert carries credibility and prestige that can open many doors for you. Oddly enough, the term is relatively easy to acquire. This simple three-step process can help you quickly and easily set yourself up as “the...

The Road to Success Will Not Always Be Smooth. The road to success will not always be smooth. By preparing for potential problems, you will be better prepared to overcome obstacles when they come your way. The Five Ways to Prepare for Potential Problems Are the Following: You need to understand that obstacles are a part of the process. If you know that you will face roadblocks along the way, you w...

For many in business, it can be hard to get your teams to communicate both their needs and their ideas. With so many rules and regulations, it can be even more challenging to get new ideas accepted and implemented. Often, it’s because of some long-standing “That’s just the way it’s always been done” thinking or perhaps an aversion to taking any sort of risk. Those two attitudes can kill a discussi...

Since the outbreak of Covid-19, teams have had to collaborate remotely out of necessity. As we start to open back up and come back to the office, you may want to continue to encourage remote collaboration. For instance, how often do your team members chat with each other in the hallway about a specific challenge? In these conversations, they identify the solution and implement it. Unfortunately, t...

If you own or run a business you have two choices. You could search for leaders in the marketplace and try to convince them to join your team. Alternatively, you can build leaders from within your organization. When you do the latter, you have the potential to create enthusiasm within your team. You are creating a culture of growth and energy. (It is actually cheaper for your company and more rewa...

“Change is the only constant in life.” This quote comes from the Greek philosopher Heraclitus, who lived 500 years before Jesus Christ. Think of the amount of change that has occurred in our world in over 25-hundred years! The earth has changed, wars fought, empires and governments have risen and fallen. In the time of Heraclitus, many people wrote on tablets. That meant carving words and images i...

As a business owner, I was chomping at the bit to get back to work on Friday morning. By 9 AM, though, only half of my staff had arrived. I was shocked. My assumption was that after six weeks of working from home, the team would be as excited to return as I was. As the team started trickling in, though, I didn’t see excitement. I saw an entirely different emotion — fear. The fear that they were ex...

With the Covid-19 crisis of 2020, many companies have had to adjust to managing remote teams on the fly. For the first 15 years that The Leaders Institute ® existed, we operated entirely remotely. In fact, we went through the opposite of what companies in early 2020 went through. We had to adjust our company culture from going from a virtual company to an office environment. Of course, we had a co...

Once we start coaching our team, we want to consistently reinforce positive behavior that we see. The best way to reinforce positive behavior is with a strength-centered compliment. In this session, we will show you, step-by-step, how to give and receive a compliment . This single skill is something that can absolutely set you apart from other leaders. It is also a valuable way to build more of a...

Tipping Point-Reduce Stress and Increase Productivity in an Uncertain World. Uncertainty and constant change are causing high levels of stress in most industries. The stress, in and of itself, is neither good nor bad. It is the way that we deal with that stress that causes either a good or bad result. Change creates opportunity. If you can reduce the negative stress, you can accomplish great thing...

I'd like to extend a personal invitation to all of our listeners to attend a series of free, live, online webcasts designed to help people navigate through the stress and challenges associated with the Covid-19 crisis. High Impact Leaders is offering short, daily sessions via our Facebook pages, and the topics are specifically designed to address challenges that you are likely going through r...

Who said that experience is the best teacher? Well, just about everyone who has ever taken a class on a subject and who later struggled to apply the content. In fact, one of the reasons why we attract so many people to our leadership classes is that we understand that people learn by doing. When a teacher or coach gives us instructions, the words are theoretical. However, when we put those words i...

I have to admit that I am uncomfortable when given constructive criticism . You know why? Because I’m human. Guess what… You are too. (You are also human.) So, if most people are uncomfortable receiving constructive criticism, is it really constructive? In addition, is there a real difference between constructive criticism and destructive criticism? Well, the answer is both “yes” and “no.” All cri...

This is part two of a four-part series of leadership principles that can be used in an office environment. Last week we covered how to build trust and a team culture within your group. The focus of this session is on conflict resolution strategies and dealing with difficult people. Remember that these principles are cumulative. The strategies to resolve conflicts work much better in an environment...

If you are like most people, you probably believe you are a great listener. The problem is that everyone else that you have to deal with needs to improve listening skills, right? The truth is that this often-used term has two parts -- "Listening" and "Skills". We often overlook the second part. Skills are those strengths that we develop with consistent focus over time. SHOW NOT...

Have you ever been in one of those situations where you run into someone you know but can’t remember the person’s name? It can be an awkward situation for both you and the other person. Years ago, I came across an astonishingly easy way to remember names that is very helpful. There are just a few vital steps in the process. However, if you follow every step, you can avoid those awkward moments of...

Step one in becoming an effective leader is building trust within your team. Keep in mind, that you can’t really make anyone do anything. However, you can create an atmosphere within your organization where growth and success are normal. In this session, we will cover how to build trust in a team. This is part one of a four-part series on becoming an effective leader. In each of the sessions, we w...

When you are establishing your list of values, we aren’t talking about God, family, or country. Instead, focus on what personal characteristics you want other people to notice in you. Here is a good way to figure out what these characteristics are. Think about someone that you know who you would describe as being “successful” — however you measure success. Next, write down a list of characteristic...

So, now that we understand the value of generating a personal vision statement, exactly how do we do it. We tried to make this entire process turnkey. Theoretically, all you really need to do is answer the questions below. Once you submit the answers, we send you an email with a clear vision statement that you can look at on a daily basis to move toward success. Your personal vision statement can...

Before you create a personal vision statement, it is really important to understand why one is so important. Back when I was in High School, my English teacher assigned us a book report. She gave us 10 or so books to choose from. Since, at the time, I wasn’t a big reader, I chose the shortest book. It was Alice in Wonderland. (Incidentally, since then I’ve read over 1000 books and even written a f...