by Mike Edwards | Jun 17, 2020 | Leadership Daily
Psychological safety is an important topic receiving plenty of airtime lately. For a good reason, too, as there’s still plenty of work to do in making the workplace more humane and safe. I do think, though, there’s a danger of swinging the Psychological safety...
by Mike Edwards | Jun 16, 2020 | Leadership Daily
One of the most powerful questions I know is, “What do you/I want?” The question asks people to think about where they want to go, rather than what has them stuck. The problem, though, is when inviting the person to look forward, they might still have a self-limiting...
by Mike Edwards | Jun 15, 2020 | Leadership Daily
Do you ever look at a problem and wonder: Where did you go wrong? What did you do to deserve this? What failure on your part leaves you dealing with this problem? What if you knew you are the author of every problem in your life? I used to struggle with this thought...
by Mike Edwards | Jun 12, 2020 | Leadership Daily
Unlike the title of this post, there is no four-step approach to building a high performing team. According to Tuckman’s model, you need to go through Forming, Storming, and Norming before you can get to Performing. It always sounds so easy when people talk about...
by Mike Edwards | Jun 11, 2020 | Leadership Daily
You’ve led the team through some stormy waters. You might have been ready to give up all hope of the team getting along with each other. Yet, as they started listening to each other more, things started to smooth out some. They’ve begun to enter a phase known as...
by Mike Edwards | Jun 10, 2020 | Leadership Daily
Things were off to a good start with your new team. Suddenly, though, it feels as if everything is an uphill battle. It seems as if people can’t share an idea without someone disagreeing. This is when things start heating up as the team is storming. The storming...
