Tag: Leadership

Leadership essentials are sneaky. They seem basic, but they are the very things we need to revisit – like LeBron, the pianist, and the senior leader – to reach the untapped potential we have lying inside us.

It’s time to do the right thing, not to try to manufacture the right measures or put employees to the test. Doing the right thing starts with leaders asking questions and measuring their own actions.

As you prepare to activate your strategy, remember who helps bring it to life: YOUR PEOPLE. Here are eight steps to help bring your plans to reality together.

The Learning Map® experience captures the essence of the time-honored campfire and is a way to bring people together.

More is lost by indecision than by making the wrong decision. Yes, the wrong decision is better than indecision.

The elevation to high performance took a major leap by understanding and appreciating each other’s stories.

When a senior team makes behavioral ground rules or behavioral expectations like this for the team as a whole and for each member individually, they’ll be well on their way to high performance

The CHRO is a critical component of long-term organizational growth, so how can CEOs empower their CHROs to give rise to growth?

Are you thinking about your KPIs in the wrong way? How Fantasy Football can help you reach your goals.

Successful change occurs when you empower a group of people to help lead the change; here are 3 skills everyone needs.

Eight lessons to ensure you're invigorating the power of human beings to make a difference.

Is your organization achieving growth and change? If you're struggling, consider adopting a life centric strategy. Not sure how? Learn more here.

Culture must be at the forefront of leaders’ minds before, during, and after an M&A. Here are key things to do, as well as to avoid, during this critical time.

Strategy activation isn't simple, but there are proven ways to successfully activate the strategies that drive organizational and cultural change. Do you know them?

Interested in improving your leadership skills? Read this excerpt of Brad Haudan's interview with Karin Blair on how to engage others in your strategy story.

Employee engagement continues to be a priority for organizations, but we have four roots of engagement that can help reverse this issue. Keep reading to learn more!

Strategic change is a process. Do you have the right plan in place & the know-how to execute it successfully?

Employees are setting the standards. They are forcing the changes. Is your organization listening?

Do you hold people accountable or do you CREATE accountability? The difference is important and could change the way your people feel about work.

Is your organization ready for strategy activation? Ask yourself these 8 questions and assess if you're likely to succeed...or struggle.

Without engaged and excited employees, the best plans are rendered useless. Here are five tips to help you entice employees to help activate your strategy.

The lessons learned through others can be extremely impactful on your journey. Here are some quotes to inspire you at work and beyond.

Dialogue brings people together and elicits curiosity. Hear what healthcare leaders had to say about data, Machine Learning, creating cultures of trust & more.

Creating an inclusive and diverse workplace is critical to creating a positive culture and employee experience. Are you taking the right steps?

To get your people excited about a new initiative, make sure you get the "skeptic" on your side. Here are three tips to do this with success.

To increase the odds of success, here are three mistakes to avoid when activating your next initiative.

Storytelling is a leadership blind spot that has been facing the business world for the past 20 years. It’s time to address this.

Organizational change is never simple, and an M&A is no exception. To maximize success, follow these 5 tips that focus on culture, your people & communications.

While many strategies fail, the truth is that with some thoughtful planning and time, you too can pave the way for strategy activation success.

An organization's culture is one of its main selling points. Unsure if your culture appeals to today's employee? It's time to figure it out.

People are reassessing how they spend their time. If leaders want to keep valuable employees, they need to become active players in the Great Reassessment.

Assuming positive intent is the single behavior that high-performance teams choose time and again. How’s your intent meter reading?

What if people need to stop waiting to receive what they want and instead start changing their own experience, with or without permission?

It's time to help your people understand that while change is out of our control, how we respond to it is very much in our control.

To help their organizations realize success, leaders need to create high-quality experiences that unlock their peoples' discretionary efforts. Are you ready?

Today leaders must do more to create a place that reenergizes people & enables them to contribute their best. Here are two key questions to ask.

Asking the right questions is instrumental in developing the right strategy for your people and your organization. This exercise will help you get started.

Dialogue is at the root of all effective engagement and group action. Here are six tips to help ensure that dialogue thrives at your organization.

Employees are resigning from their jobs at rates we’ve never seen before, making it clear that they’re the ones with the power. Leaders and organizations must adapt to meet the needs of today’s workers.

Smart decision-making creates countless benefits for your business. Do you have an effective process in place?

Great leaders know how to actively listen and empower rather than direct and tell. It's the best way to unlock the power of human capital.

Without the right behaviors, strategy execution will fail every single time. Leaders must go first by walking the walk and talking the talk.

If you want your organization to succeed leaders must tell the truth about their reality, discuss the tough issues, and commit to changing negative behaviors.

Change only occurs when there is a clear picture of where things are and where we want to go. The change vision must convey how tomorrow will be different from today.

Many companies share the same core strategy. The differentiator is the ability to execute – getting aligned on a vision & getting the priorities right. 

What are you doing to tell your sustainability story? The time to hone this part of your organization’s strategy is now.

Innovation and change are paramount to any organization that wants to be a market leader. Here are 9 tips to help leaders make the difficulties of change more palatable, and better yet, lead to success!

If you expect emotional and behavioral change of others, you must first expect it of yourselves.

Managers must need to know how to lead with Empathy 2.0 if you want to get the best out of your people. Are they ready?

The utility industry is complex and uncertainty is creating stress for your people. It's time to prepare for change.

Why should you be using strategic visuals in your organization? Because strategic visuals are powerful and time-tested. And they work!

As leadership teams discuss plans for hybrid work and culture, they’re relying on HR leaders to successfully develop and engage their people.

We can't return to the “old” ways of working or leading. Here are three do's and dont's for a post-Covid workplace.

Root helps clients use visual storytelling because integrating comics with research, data, and structured dialogue is an effective way to embrace change.

Change is rarely, if ever, easy. Here are four fundamental steps to help your people get ready to create change for your business.

Leaders must embrace and help people navigate the obstacles of the middle point of a transformation when new behaviors are being adopted.

DEI training can be a spark for change, but it must be oriented within a larger story and tie to organization-wide efforts.

Your talent shortage has more to do with you and your organization than it does with the talent you're trying to recruit or retain.

Digital transformation isn't only about technology. This type of change requires a human-centered approach. Here are four things leaders should know.

How can organizations build and maintain trust with customers and communities? It's time to turn your employees into businesspeople.

We are currently all at risk of cultural tunnel vision. And so we must work harder to establish mutual empathy and stronger connections.

High-performance teams are the result of people committing to build something together that is special. Here are tips to make this happen at your organization.

Creating highly connected and bonded teams is different now. Three habits leaders can adopt to create connections and help people feel valued.

Unconscious bias training doesn't work. Here are three reasons bias trainings often fail and what we propose doing differently.

To build resiliency and lift the fog of change fatigue that is our reality in 2021, we must think differently about how we lead change. Consider these three tips.

Strategy without execution is meaningless and execution without senior team engagement is impossible. Leaders set the tone and must change first.

How can leaders create engagment despite the tidal wave of chaos casued by the pandemic? Celebrate your teams any chance you get.

Want to make sure your business doesn't wind up hanging on by a thread? Check out proven success stories and tips to drive innovation.

Create emotional and intellectual understanding of strategy and priorities. Enable remote, shared learning using visualization and dialogue.

In many cases, the flurry of DEI-related activity in 2020 has been healthy, productive, and long overdue. If you're struggling with creating a diverse, more equitable, and more inclusive organization, read on for tips and strategic advice to help you on this journey.

The concept of “giving back” is showing up outside the expected.It appears to be a critical ingredient in sustaining meaningful human behavior change.

Companies that can turn obstacles into opportunities will be the ones to remain standing in the end. Check out these tips.

A servant leader's goal is to bring the best out of others and help them work at a higher level. Here are six reasons why servant leadership really works.

People must understand how a business operates and what it takes to win if they give their best efforts. Three tips to encourage everyone to work together.

Strategic change requires engagement - not just emails, videos or powerpoint presentations Metaphors, visualization, and discussion can help.

To help health systems shift from crisis response to financial and operational recovery, leaders must engage people in the organization's financial story and encourage accountability for how their efforts affect financial performance.

Believe it or not, along with discomfort comes opportunity – because we are forced to think in a new way and push ourselves to find a solution we didn’t see initially. And that’s the path to a breakthrough.

Collaboration is powerful. You just have to be wiling to loosen your grip on being right. You need to enter a conversation ready to receive others’ ideas and then layer your thoughts on top of them. By approaching a conversation this way, you’ll wind up with solutions you never thought of before.