Productive and Engaging Touchbases
Are you struggling to make your one-to-one touchbases with your team more than just a checkbox on your to-do list? You're not alone. Many leaders find these meetings to be time-consuming with little visible impact. Learn simple and easy-to-implement tips and strategies to transform your touchbases into powerful tools for connection and direction.
Team Resilience and Persistence: Leading Through the “Valley of Disappointment”
Leadership strategies to maintain commitment and stay resilient through setbacks.
Leadership Strategies to Prevent Burnout
Burnout is a pervasive issue that not only affects individual well-being but can also significantly impact organizational morale and business success. When we undervalue the human element, we risk the very success we strive to achieve.
Business success and individual well-being are not mutually exclusive. By blending empathy with strategy, leaders have the opportunity to prevent burnout by creating environments where both people and performance thrive.
Unlocking the Secret to Lasting Habits: Make This Year Different
Discover the secret to making your New Year's resolutions stick with James Clear's transformative approach to building lasting habits.
A sneak peek into the Harborbridge origin story
An inside scoop into the 30+ year journey to form Harborbridge, plus some epic ‘90s photos.
Informed Decision Making: Looking beyond the data
Data is only valuable if you are able to understand what it represents. Mere knowledge of statistics doesn’t necessarily provide wisdom or insight. Instead, we need to understand — dig deeper, find connections and weave information into meaning.
Real talk and real solutions from a chronic productivity struggler.
Productivity tips will do zilch without understanding a crucial truth. Learn to build your self-awareness to improve productivity for good.
The Leadership Cha Cha: Choosing When to Step In and When to Step Back
Often, leaders shy away from a directive approach because they fear offending team members by being overly controlling or micromanaging their tasks and being perceived as authoritarian. Understanding when and how to apply a directive approach is a delicate balance that requires an understanding of individual team members and the specific context of the task.
Performance Reviews: Moving Beyond Compliance
Between compiling metrics, goal setting, creating individual documents and administering Performance Evaluations - just being compliant with the requirements can feel like a major accomplishment. Yet compliance is not enough. You also need to consider the impact annual reviews have on an employee’s motivation and use the review period as a valuable opportunity to improve team engagement and performance in the upcoming year.
Beyond Buzzwords: Strategies for Building Trust and Cooperation in the Workplace
What makes certain workplaces vibrant with energy and innovation, while others seem siloed, stuck and misaligned? The answer often lies in two fundamental elements: trust and cooperation. As workplaces evolve, the importance of these elements becomes more signifiant, impacting everything from employee engagement to organizational resilience.
Kindergarten Lessons in the Workplace: How Productive Struggle can drive innovation, resilience and growth
Diving into the parallels between educational strategies and leadership methods, this article explores how the learning principals of Productive Struggle can revolutionize our approach to challenges in the workplace for greater innovation and growth.
Why-to-What
Learn this powerful approach to elevate your conversation skills to unlock open dialogue, foster innovative solutions and more meaningful interactions.
The Power of Active Listening: Unlocking Success Through Connection
Active listening is more than just hearing words; it’s about understanding, empathizing and responding appropriately to enhance communication and connection.
Building a Healthy Relationship with Feedback
When Katie and I start working with a new leader, the most common challenge they express is feeling uncomfortable giving feedback.
**The Most Common Fears We Hear**
- What if I say the wrong thing?
- What if I offend the person I give feedback to?