Training

Growth Over Perfection: How to Cultivate Lasting Team Development

High stakes. Big outcome. But someone on your team didn’t deliver as expected—and the cost is high. Your reaction in this moment defines your leadership. When the pitch isn’t perfect, when the client meeting stumbles, or when a new process rollout doesn’t go as planned, the instinct is often to rush in and fix everything immediately. To demand an instant turnaround. To expect immediate mastery. But here’s what I’ve learned in 20 years of coaching teams:Growth or Transformation isn’t a light

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Team Leadership

Sometimes the greatest leadership lessons come when we’re not leading at all.

Leadership Lessons: Recently, I found myself on the other side of the room – as a participant rather than a facilitator. When our session leader reminded us that “too many cooks in the kitchen” could derail our learning focus, I had a choice to make. For a split second, I interpreted this as a call to stay quiet. Don’t share. Don’t contribute. But after sitting on it for a minute, it hit me – participation and learning are inseparable partners. The

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Team Leadership

They win too much.

When a company consistently outperforms its competitors, we STUDY them. We write case studies. We try to replicate their success. We applaud their organizational excellence. Yet as the Chiefs head to another Super Bowl, I’ve noticed a troubling sentiment across social media and football fans: “Anyone but the Chiefs.” The reasoning? “They win too much.” NFL analyst Nate Burleson recently addressed this directly, urging fans to “resist the urge to fall for the narrative that we’re fatigued of seeing the Chiefs

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A-Ha

Innovation doesn’t punch a timecard

Great ideas don’t schedule meetings first. Check the timestamp wherever you add your quick ideas… oh look, that big one was at 2am. True breakthroughs rarely align neatly with a 9-to-5 schedule or appear on demand during designated “productive” time. These flashes of insight strike in the moments between meetings, in the spaces we often dismiss as “downtime”: – During your commute, when traffic patterns suddenly mirror the solution to your team’s workflow challenges – At your child’s game, where watching

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Team Leadership

Helping teams ‘WOW’ with Memorable not Mediocre

Increasing your Win-Rate, instilling confidence, and unleashing potential – one team member at a time. My “happy place” is definitely signing on stage with a good band in front of a crowd. So, it doesn’t surprise me when people tell me “You like being behind a mic, it doesn’t stress you out like it does me”. Here’s my reply: I can get nervous too, but I’ve practiced so much until all the songs are muscle memory, and I get to walk

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Business winning concept
Business Development

Let’s Talk Talent

You’d like to get into (market sector) but you know to fully engage in that area you’ll need to make some strategic hires.

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Strategy

Someone is sitting the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

I was recently engaged to strategize with a firm chasing an aviation project that the firm had not worked directly for previously. They had done their homework; they had an impressive number of internal insights and they had decision-making relationships in place that were pulling for them. But! They knew it wasn’t a slam dunk, so they asked me to come in and increase their optics with a solid presentation and team coaching. As I often do, I asked – “what’s our win percentage in

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Business Competition, Leadership Concept
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Business Adventure

Jack Welch was quoted saying “If you don’t have competitive advantage, don’t compete.” I know he’s a really smart guy but I’m going to disagree with him on this one. We’ve talked about ways to get in front of clients while ‘not-winning’ their work. It’s time to focus on using that time-out period to check out the competition. Use the time during a losing streak (waiting/strategizing/hiring/planting seeds to win) to size up your competition. What are they presenting and winning with? How can you counter

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