Your Morning Commute

Who hasn't been in a tough conversation - said no one ever - we've all been there.  Today on the #YourMorningCommute I discuss in the moment tough conversations vs. those you plan a deeper forward feedback around. It's amazing how many assumptions are made during conversations and total misunderstandings, interpretations and words chosen that immediately derail a relationship in the moment or...

Ultimately, the most meaningful act of responsibility that leaders can do is to control their own state of mind. Leaders who spread bad moods are simply bad for business - and those who pass along good moods help drive a business's success. If you think your mood isn't making an impact on your workplace culture - think again. What kind of Courageous Leader are you going to be today? Spreading a po...

Leadership's primal task is an emotional one. How will do you as a leader resonate with your team? Are you building trust, engaging, and energizing relationships around you? How intentional are you embracing the tensions that may seem contradictory? Teams shared purpose; focus on specific goals or tasks Focused on performance or learning; don't you need both Teams focus on themselves, the overlapp...

We talk about accountability... We get frustrated over team members missing the expectations... We get stressed over projects getting pushed... But how clear are we to begin with on expectations, accountability and feedback in the middle of the project or job/role itself with our team members. Can you give yourself an A+ with all three of those? If not... Listen to day's 4 minute challenge on the...

Friday's 208th episode of #YourMorningCommute is an ask to stop reflect and then move forward with intentions. Life is pulling people in too many directions right now. Burnout signal levels in our data reached a two-year high this month. Organizations must continue to rethink how they work—how they define productivity—and put belonging and growth at the center.

Are you in the middle of budget season? Are you putting together numbers or focused on Dream teams to accomplish those goals through aligned strategies?  Dream teams do not happen by accident. The same way professional sports organizations use data to build winning teams, talent optimization uses people data to maximize an organization’s ability to hit its goals. What does a dream team look l...

I am begging of you to spend your coaching dollars wisely and intentionally up front, not as a last resort. Meaning do you bring a coach in to try and save the day, literally in a day... be far more intentional in your culture about guiding, developing, mentoring every step of the way? I am not suggesting a coach can't turn a situation around but wouldn't you rather develop proactively vs. going i...

Is your turnover from those you recruit and hire or could it be your on-boarding? Today on the 205 episode of #YourMorningCommute we are at the intersection of the recruiting vs on-boarding and the messages you are sending about your workplace culture. Your new hire’s first day usually involves a lot of paperwork, setting up passwords and logins, meeting new people whose names they’ll inevitably f...

Are you still doing annual performance reviews and that's it? If you aren't setting clear expectations, creating standardized processes, giving continuous feedback, holding each other accountable, and celebrating your wins and culture alignment then YOU ARE MISSING THE BOAT. After you listen to todays quick #YourMorningCommute and you still have questions or not sure where to get started - then me...

Trust is at the foundation of nearly all major theories of interpersonal relationships. Today on #YourMorningCommute I talk about reliability, truth, depositing and withdrawing trust AND when it begins inside of your workplace culture during the Ad to Application to Interview to On-boarding to Employees full lifecycle.  It's a two way street - what role are you playing to build trust inside o...

Did you know Honesty is also defined as a European plant with purple or white flowers and round, flat, translucent seed pods that are used for indoor flower arrangements? I didn't until today when I was prepped for the 202 episode of #YourMorningCommute.  As I talk about honesty, one of my favorite words but more so #values, I loved discovering the words translucent and seed in the definition...

When you are truly curious, you begin to ask more thoughtful questions that in return deepen trust and build resiliency inside of your workplace culture. I challenge you to get curious today around an internal team conflict or perhaps a change management initiative. 

Episode 200 of #YourMorningCommute let's talk about Agility and wins around shared leadership increased individual momentum engagement retention recruiting

On this 199th episode of #YourMorningCommute I talk about EXPECTATIONS another one of my favorite words. Clear expectations right from the beginning (job ads) begins to set the new hire on the right track and same page as you. Listen in for a specific example.

Today's word INTENTIONAL - how deliberate, focused, and actionable are you around assessing, understanding, growing the momentum and talent of your team for NOW and for the FUTURE? On today's 198th episode of #YourMorningCommute, I dive in and encourage you to be more #Intentional with assessing the talent of your team. Establish a criteria, guidelines, who to rate, who not to rate, and the scale....

Over the next several days I further unpack some of my favorite words. Today's focus is on #resiliency inside of yourself, your team, and your workplace culture. Resilience is the capacity to survive, adapt, and flourish in the face of turbulent change - how resilient are you and your team? Are you bouncing back, remain still or BOUNCING FORWARD?

There are so many invisible barriers to leadership success. On today's 196th episode of #YourMorningCommute I list out 13 of my personal words that inspire me - lean into - words that I use as my litmus test (walking my talk) (protecting workplace culture) (staying on track). I would love to know yours and I hope you join me on this follow on series to why I love these words and what they mean to...

Today's #YourMorningCommute challenge is to unroot whether you and your team are being more productive or less productive working remotely and WHY?

3/4's of the year is in our past What have you learned? How are you intentionally gaining TRACTION?

Smart leaders never let a crisis go to waste.  When opportunities to make organizational or operational improvements arise out of necessity, what is the best way to involve team members? Today on this 193rd episode of #YourMorningCommute I arm you with tips and flow involving your team. - when, who, how

What one aspect of business would you advise leaders to NOT make hasty decisions about or change during a crisis, and why? My answer: Organizational structure changes

I must be honest. I hear more people complaining about their crappy culture than people bragging about their awesome culture. Why is that? We all agree culture is created by the team. If the team says the culture sucks, then change it. Are you a part of the solution or the problem? Do you really know the problem? The root causes? Have you offered solutions? Viable solutions? Have you stated facts...

The word 'resiliency' is being tossed around more now...but how can you do it? Become more resilient that is???? Listen in as I begin to set the stage and the impact it has on your team and your workplace culture.

Open positions on any team causes stress & anxiety...period...for everyone. To better manage that - how do you inform and involve your immediate team members on that now open position? First keeping them in the loop shows you care, trust and respect them enough to let them know immediately. Second, you may be surprised on the great ideas they come up with to shift temporarily or permanently du...

We expect confidence in our leaders. Agree or disagree? How well leaders move through the decision making process itself expresses their confidence to others and further manifests into deeper internal confidence too AND absolutely influences the workplace culture.