We all tend toward one or the other. If you emphasize both, you share a skill with some of the best leaders. Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from you! Email Mike and Mark.
Two simple questions that improve every employee meeting, sales pitch, marketing, etc., etc., etc.
A roofer’s watermelon trick … a game for high-school juniors … what do they have in common? Something that goes back at least to Aristotle. And it’s something that can help just about every area of your thinking and interacting. Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from you! Email …
Was Socrates the original coach?
Plato’s “Meno” gives some clues on how Socrates used a coach approach–in some ways–and predicted the content of the bestseller “Crucial Conversations.” How can you use elements of the Socratic Method? Our “Crucial Conversations” resources can be found here. Or, interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from you! Email …
4 words, 3 letters: the art of recognition
How can something so basic be so instrumental to employee engagement and retention? Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from you! Email Mike and Mark. Spotify Apple Amazon
A man who studied great men: 4 qualities of leadership
Hilaire Belloc was a dynamic leader–a historian who became part of history himself. He studied the Duke of Marlborough, a commander who lost ZERO battles. And it convinced him that there are four qualities of a leader. How do you measure up? Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from …
The Inquiring Leader: The myth of the natural leader (Inquiry is a skill, not a personality)
From their new book: Mike and Mark take aim at one of the biggest lies in leadership: “Great leaders are born, not built.” Learn how to flex your leadership muscles of inquisitiveness in this episode. (Want more articles? Here are a scholarly explanation of dialogic leadership and a short piece from Mark explaining how slowing down leads to learning.) This episode …
The Inquiring Leader: The Magic Accountability Question
If your team always agrees with you–but never takes action–this episode’s for you. It’s time to stop settling for input … and start asking for ownership. From Mike and Mark’s new book, “The Inquiring Leader“–buy it here! Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from you! Email Mike and Mark. …
The Inquiring Leader: Five downsides to being the Answer Guy
From Mike and Mark’s new book, “The Inquiring Leader:” It’s easier, more efficient, to be the Answer Guy–the leader who gives all the direction and tells people what to do. Or is it? There are limitations to directive leadership. … Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from you! Email …
The Inquiring Leader: Four types of powerful questions great leaders ask
From Mike and Mark’s new book, “The Inquiring Leader:” A manager’s “impossible choice” was solved with a powerful question. All four types of powerful questions help a leader clarify the situation, analyze what’s really going on, gain awareness and plan for the future. Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear …
The Inquiring Leader: How five managers asked employees questions and avoided the exit interview
From Mike and Mark’s new book, “The Inquiring Leader:” How five different leaders used questions—not counteroffers—to retain employees ready to resign. Interested in coaching or training on these topics for you or your team? We’d love to hear from you! Email Mike and Mark. (And buy the book here!) Spotify Apple Amazon How to retain employees without a raise Coaching …