Bottom-line: To get more done as a team, leaders need to build their capacity to be with discomfort, uncertainty, and fear. You have to be willing to sit with the discomfort of the in-between or the uncertainty of not knowing.

In this video, I share why your productivity system isn’t going to solve the overwhelm you feel as you look at your to-do list.

One of the skills conscious leaders develop is the awareness of when they are operating on automatic and when those automatic patterns are no longer serving them. Without this discernment, you tend to think you are playing to your strengths and that other people are the problem.

Bringing your awareness to your implicit belief systems can help you be a more effective manager. Learn the 9 styles of leadership and how you can work with them to uplevel at work.

Goal setting is all about getting clear on the destination so everyone is on the same page and working toward the same end point. Here’s how to balance specificity with flexibility.

If you want to build a high-impact team or achieve that big-hairy-audacious goal, you have to be willing to put in the effort to see it through. But that doesn’t mean it has to be difficult or laborious, necessarily…

An exercise for the new year: write a letter to yourself filled with all the things you hope someone else will say to you.

Paradoxically, the goals you set may actually be limiting your ability to achieve what you want…

Often, the very things that we are good at can show up as areas for improvement in a review. Learn how the core needs of each Enneagram type lead to inevitable problems for teams.

Aristotle argued that virtues lie between deficiency and excess - and there is more and more evidence that suggests that success doesn’t come from playing to your strengths. It comes from using your strengths in the right situations at the right times. Explore the shadow side of the strengths on your team for each of the Enneagram types.

Explore the three conflict styles in more depth so that you can better understand the people you work with. Often, coworkers come at situations from a different perspective on the best way to resolve tension or move things forward…

The different ways we try to get what we want, if misunderstood, can be a source of conflict or confusion on teams. Understanding how your team is wired can help reduce friction on your team and help build a solid foundation of trust.

In this video we explore the main reason why teams struggle to develop rapport and trust (and it is a bit counter-intuitive).

I work with teams not because I care about increasing productivity in the workplace. (That is a nice byproduct of this work.)

Most people wing it when they first start managing a team. Some things come intuitively, but when things get hard you can tend to be a bit harsh with people as you push them to better results. Sometimes you even lose your cool and say something you regret.