From time to time I am asked how do I know when to decide one way or the other? Sure we would love to have all the necessary data to decide which way to go. Sometimes that just is not possible. Where data is missing – something kicks in. We all have our own special [...]
Posts Tagged ‘coaching’
Don’t Think We Know – We Do!
July 15th, 2010 
Steve Over the years, I have tried to live up to my end of the bargain when it comes to leadership! For the most part, the folks that I have had the pleasure of leading, have commented that they enjoyed my style, my approach and my cander. Since I have been leading teams for quite a [...]
Posted in Leadership, Observations 
Tags: coaching, Leadership, people, reflections, thoughts 
No Comments »Taking A Little Break From Managing
March 6th, 2010 Steve Due to recent reorganizations at work, I have been asked to fill-in on a role that is an individual contributor role. I get to take a break from managing people. Well, on paper that is… I think I went through the normal reactions that people have to changing positions that they did not ask for [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: coaching, fear, fun, goals, listening, managing, people, performance planning, relationship No Comments »You’re Out of Here
February 25th, 2010 Steve Did you play youth sports? Did your kids play youth sports? If so, this post is for you. I want to address an issue that has been around much longer than we all care to say. For me, I participated in youth sports growing up; coached youth sports for over 25 years; sat on many [...]
Posted in Observations Tags: action, coaching, education, fun, goals, people, rant, thoughts No Comments »What’s Next?
February 17th, 2010 Steve After 27 years of managing teams, shifts, departments and such – I am now leading one, myself. I still have focal and other things to close up, but for the most part the day to day coaching, assisting and helping manage people is no more. Not sure why I wanted to write a blog post [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams Tags: change, coaching, Leadership, Leading Teams, managing, people, relationship, thoughts No Comments »Motivating Employees
December 22nd, 2009 Steve Last week, I was meeting with a brand new manager. On his request, he wanted to ask a few questions. His first questions took up all of our time together. “How do I motivate my employees?” Wonderful question – one that I first told him to step back and look at the overall work situations [...]
Posted in Leading Teams Tags: coaching, Leading Teams, listening, managing, motivation, people, Vision No Comments »Critical Feedback And What To Do With It!
December 18th, 2009 Steve It is that time of year, where we all sit down and summarize our year in review. Assess your accomplishments over the year, gather some 360 degree feedback from the folks that are not shy to tell you what you did well or not so well and make plans for next year. I got some feedback this year – that [...]
Posted in Leadership Tags: challenges, coaching, fear, listening, people, reflections, skills, traits No Comments »Leadership and the Generational Divide
November 19th, 2009 Steve Ever just sit with a friend at lunch and have one of those discussions that just turned into a blog post! Well, today I did and here are my thoughts and post. The topic today comes from the wonderful world of sports and work leadership. On many occasions I have paralleled sports leadership to work [...]
Posted in Leadership, Leading Teams, Observations Tags: coaching, fear, Hockey, Leadership, Leading Teams No Comments »A Leader Needs to be Connected
October 19th, 2009 Steve I started out with wanting to title this blog post – Connected Leadership. But, when I Binged it – that term was already used and there even is a book. I was hoping that I may have thought of something that was may have been missed. That would have been nice, but unrealistic. Connected Leaders are [...]
Bouncing Back
September 24th, 2009 Steve Most people have moments in their life that they run into tough times. Something that just does not go the way that you had planned or hoped. My post today is about one such time that I have experienced and how I had to step up and deal with. As I have written many [...]
