Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #67: Trust your gut?, The 2024 Retention Report, and 🔜 Your last chance
Do you trust your gut? Has it helped you when you need it, or do you feel like it's led you astray? Or maybe it's not even something you have or feel like is part of your process. Regardless of how you feel about your gut, it's an interesting topic, and one we haven't really […]
Managing Up and Managing Down: Essential Tactics for Leaders
"Clients do not come first. Employees come first. If you take care of your employees, they will take care of the clients." - Richard Branson, founder of the Virgin empire of companies As a manager, this is an important message to remember. How you treat those you work with determines how your team, your department, […]
Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #66: Going too far for your team, handling the end of non-competes, and more…
Did you see the news this week? No, not that trial, not the bill, not the sportsball draft, not the war...okay, actually there's too much news to follow. I wouldn't blame anyone for tuning it all out. But there was some news that matters to managers; the FTC ended non-competes across the United States. For […]
41 Strategic Questions You Should Ask Your Team
“Do you know what our company’s strategy is?” <Blank stares> If you’ve ever gotten this response from your team, you know how damaging it can be when your team doesn’t actually understand where you’re trying to go. It can lead to everyone trying to go in different directions, people not understanding why their work matters, […]
Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #65: The Power of Idea Labs, A new study on 2024 Workspaces, and more...
What helps you find your zen? How do you get "in the zone"? For me, it's sitting on my balcony on a warm, sunny day doing some writing or getting through a backlog of emails. The contrast of nature and technology relaxes me in a way that's hard to explain. But the important thing is […]
How Leadership Training Benefits You & Your Organization
“People leave managers, not companies.” You’ve probably heard that phrase over the years, and if you’ve managed for long, you’ve probably felt it. Whether you’ve quit a manager, or you lost someone on your team due to your actions or inaction, it hurts to lose good people. Becoming a leader is a major career change […]
Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #64: 98% vs. 100%, the power of FlashTags, How to Rebuild Trust, and more
Ever make a mistake you really wish you could take back? Ever been really tempted to make a compromise that deep down you know you shouldn't? In today’s edition, we look at a key lesson from our Book of the Month about compromising on your principles, explore how you can rebuild trust after a betrayal with your […]
How to Grow as a Leader in 7 Actionable Ways
Ever feel stuck in growing as a leader? Seem like you’re in a rut doing the same things every week? As a leader it’s easy to take what was a comfortable groove and find it now feels more like a rut. You may have mastered the basics of management, and your team is mostly okay, […]
Lighthouse Leadership Weekly #63: Removing friction on your team, a 🤔 Book of the Month, Leadership Secrets, and more
In today’s edition, we cover a favorite book of mine that will really get you thinking about what matters most to you, we answer a great question about 1 on 1 questions, and talk about how to help your team build better bonds. And then we also have a great tune up post on the […]
Time Management for Leaders: 4 Key Tips and Strategies
“What's your favorite productivity hack?” A friend asked me this the other day and it got me thinking. I've read dozens of books on leadership, productivity, and habit building, so you don't have to. Today's post is based on years of both trial and error, and reviewing what works in time management and doesn't for […]
