How to Handle Competing Priorities

How to Handle Competing Priorities

  Are you stuck with competing priorities, where multiple people are counting on you to deliver, and you just can’t possibly do them all at once? There are a lot of bad ways to get through that situation. There are also good ways. 3 Common Mistakes in...
How to Manage Your Time

How to Manage Your Time

  Are you trying to get more done in the time you have? Do you need to get more done in less time so you can cut back on evening and weekend work? Managing your time more actively, more proactively, will make a huge difference. Here are seven steps that you can...
What Is the Birkman Method?

What Is the Birkman Method?

  Do you ever feel like your teammates just don’t get you? Maybe you even have days when you don’t even really get yourself. That’s when using a personality assessment tool can be an incredibly valuable way to get a clearer sense of yourself. My...
5 Different Ways to Say No

5 Different Ways to Say No

  One of the most important things you can learn if you want to be more effective, more productive, and less stressed is how to say “no.” Some people will tell you that “no” is a complete sentence, but I don’t think that’s the best approach if you want to be a...
Team Effectiveness Exercise: Reflect & Reset

Team Effectiveness Exercise: Reflect & Reset

  Is your team stuck in a place where the effectiveness isn’t where you’d like it to be, or maybe you’re getting a lot of things done, but it just feels harder than it should? I’d like to share an exercise I use with teams to help them reset and get a...
Improving Team Effectiveness

Improving Team Effectiveness

  If you’re looking at your team and finding that either, you’re not achieving enough, or that you are achieving things, but it hurts way more than it should, then it sounds like it’s time to work on team effectiveness. The first category of things...