by Paul Armstrong | Nov 28, 2018 | Enabling Joy, Facilitating, Leadership, Teambuilding
The Lightning Round to guide your team through storming to performing When a team starts working together, it’s all well and good…for a while. Then the “storm” hits. Conflict and tensions rise. What is a leader to do? This is a critical...
by Paul Armstrong | Nov 7, 2018 | Enabling Joy, Leadership
What gets measured gets done. This is a classic leadership quip that precedes most conversations on metrics. I tell you that line haunts me sometimes. We’ve talked about metrics before. (See our post on An Amazing Use of Metrics). It’s Paul here; I am finding that...
by Amanda Parker | Jul 26, 2018 | Enabling Joy, Featured, Leadership
Check out this article on iSixSigma as well. Thank you to iSixSigma for publishing! We are all members of teams of one type or another, but have you ever stopped to think about how to lead a team well when you aren’t the boss? There’s a plethora of advice...
by Paul Armstrong | Jul 20, 2018 | Enabling Joy, Leadership
In our last blog, we shared some ideas about the necessity for a leader to follow their inspiration with enabling each person to aspire to a goal. One of our astute readers, we will call him Sam Adams because he’s a devout patriot, sent me this feedback: “If the...
by Paul Armstrong | Jul 12, 2018 | Enabling Joy, Leadership
Inspire Change. How do we actually do that, and move from buzzword to real world? I recently saw “Inspiring change” in the May 4th front page of the Central Penn Business Journal. It reminded me that I love that term. Yet, for years I led and facilitated teams to...
by Amanda Parker | Apr 26, 2018 | Enabling Joy, Leadership
A decade-ish ago, the Millennial generation started entering the workforce. I am on the fringes of a Millennial, which some call xennials. I remember being one of the first “explorers” of the workforce before the Millennial tidal wave started rolling in the door...