Monthly Archives: May 2014

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Help Your Team To Understand

When you’re in a position of leadership, you know there are actions happening behind the scenes. The rest of your team is oblivious to these happenings.

Unfortunately, when they’re happening in secret, your team doesn’t understand the reasons you’re making the choices you’re making.

This may lead to you being viewed as a bad leader. What you need to do is to help your team to understand what’s happening.

In a recent post about bad leadership, I mentioned a couple of things you may be doing that causes your team to think you’re leading poorly. This post is a great example of why you need to help your team understand the inner workings of the business.

You don’t have to go into the deep details but you should at least explain a few key points of the business to your team. This can prevent a lot of grief and agony.  Read more...

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5 Android Apps Every Leader Needs

One of my leadership tools that I can’t live without is my Samsung Galaxy S4. It’s a brute of a phone. I’ll go as far as saying it’s the best phone I’ve ever owned.

What makes the phone amazing is the Android OS and the fantastic apps that have been produced for this operating system.

Android's green robot mascot

Image by JD Hancock

There’s so many apps in the Google Play Store (Over 1 million apps) that it can be hard to tell what apps are worth it and what apps aren’t. That’s why I want to share with you the 5 Android apps I think every leader needs for their Android phone or tablet.

1. BeyondPod Podcast Manager: This is my go-to Android app for listening to podcasts. BeyondPod allows you to easily add podcasts for your listening pleasure.  Read more...

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Leveraging Respect to Align Team Goals

Relationships with the people around you play a pivotal role for any person in a position of leadership. The strength, level of respect and communication between a leader and the people they work with are instrumental to maximizing productivity and effectiveness.

A key skill a leader needs in order to establish productive relationships is to know how to win friends and influence people.

A leader with the ability to do these things will have an easier time establishing productive and effective relationships with their peers.  If you can align people to your way of thinking, you will have an easier time accomplishing your goals because the group will be working as a cohesive unit.

Here are three tips to align your team’s thinking with your own:  Read more...

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Stop Being Good

There’s an old saying that went something like this: I don’t drink, smoke, cuss or chew and I don’t date boys that do!

What’s the meaning behind this saying? I think it’s trying to tell us that by not doing these things it makes us be good.

We’re living clean, speaking clean, and staying sober. All great things, for sure. But is that all there is to goodness?

Should our lives be filled with not to dos? This is where I think we’ve gone wrong.

Instead of setting up rules and regulations to help us be good, we need to be out doing good instead. Doing good trumps being good any day in my book.

But why is this the case? Why isn’t being good, good enough?  Read more...