Delegation can often seem like a time suck, but remember this: taking a task off of your plate leaves you more time. How could you spend that extra time? Additionally, delegation empowers those you lead. It gives them a greater sense of responsibility. Something...
It happens fairly regularly. I’ll hand my business card to someone, wait a beat, and watch them smile as they read my title - Chief Encouragement Officer. I started my business, Giant Leap Consulting, in 2002. My personal and business mission is the same – to help...
Baseball spring training season is marked with a series of practices and exhibition games to prepare new and old players alike for the coming official season. This year’s Pittsburgh Pirates spring training at Pirate City in Bradenton, Florida also included leadership...
I’m a practitioner of organizational development. OD, as it’s called, is the field of practice that primarily focuses on changing people, processes, and structures to help bring about performance improvement. Because OD folks are always striving to help organizations...
Last week, Bill Treasurer gave a keynote address to 300 employees of the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He spoke about the importance of leaders as opportunity creators based on concepts from his bestselling book, Leaders Open Doors. Some highlights...
I'm honored to share this blog post by Jim Blasingame. I've known Jim for almost a decade now. He produces and hosts a radio show called
Henry David Thoreau, who after spending a year and a half in quiet solitude at Walden Pond certainly earned the right to expound on silence, talks about the necessity to shake off the village as a means of connecting to your inner wisdom. Thoreau also underscored the...
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