Leaders. Do you know this graph? You need to know this graph.

Deep lessons in leadership and management in a glance.  It's not about the generations or the war for talent, but it holds the keys to unlocking both. It's about people. Specifically, what extremely satisfies and dissatisfies people at work.

The last day of each quarter (or as close as I can get), I routinely make an investment in myself. There are no funds involved, this is an investment of time called the Personal Quarterly Offsite, or PQO. It is a workday spent away from the office to work on me.

The age-old debate between leadership and management has raged for decades. If you want to be sure you are leading and not merely managing your team, consider this challenge.

If you are committed to improving your performance in any area of work or life, it is essential that you embrace consistency.  Practice and refinement form the path to mastery. But if that is true, does this also mean that you are a prisoner to your routines?  Yes and no.

Are you spending more time trying to retain your people or grow them? Are you making investments that quench their thirst for purpose, autonomy, and mastery? Consider this lesson from a Tasmanian cattle rancher.

Have you heard it takes 21 days to form a habit? Perhaps you’re wiser, having read the details of psychologist Pippa Lally’s research at the University College of London that suggests habits take much longer, up to 254 days, or about 66 days on average. That’s as far as most people get. But to really understand habits, especially why some are so elusive, you must understand the x-factor…automaticity.

Like it or not, all acts of humans go astray with time. We can be fired up and focused on Monday, lost in the weeds by Wednesday. If our mission matters, we simply can’t rely on a Monday staff meeting to carry us through the week. That’s where the awesome mid-week performance huddle comes in. Keep in mind, this is no run-of-the-mill meeting.

Shed the typical world of work for a moment and re-imagine your job as play, professional play. Believe it or not, you’d likely feel highly inspired and infinitely more accountable. Here are a few reasons you should ‘play in a stadium’ and five simple steps to make it happen.

“Do the tracks imprison the train or set it free?” It’s a great question. Generally speaking, you could say the answer is a matter of perspective. But if you are talking about work-life performance, the answer is actually quite unequivocal.

We are all busy…crazy busy. So to add another thing to an already crushing pile might seem like a step in the wrong direction. Well, here are 3 reasons it’s worth the effort to begin tracking key behaviors.