Team & People Leadership

Here’s a great post by Scott Kerzner. You can follow Scott’s blog, In Due Season, or on Twitter. You can guest post as well! Read how to here. Lord knows that we all make plenty of mistakes. I know I have. The trick is to learn from them, move forward and avoid repeating the same goof-ups! Additionally, learning

“I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team, not the individual, is the ultimate champion.” – Mia Hamm I absolutely love racing Formula cars. There is an excitement and an adrenaline rush that is beyond most things I’ve ever experienced. Taking a car

Leadership and babysitting have unfortunately been synonymous for years in too many companies. Over and over, I’ve heard leadership from around the country express the disappointment with having to babysit team members. And while that’s an issue, it’s not the kind of babysitting I’m talking about today. Instead, I mean real babysitting. Yep, it’s a

“I’m so happy right now” is what I said to Laura, my server at Farm 255 in Athens, GA. It wasn’t an excited statement. It was said from a content heart. Why? Because I had just experienced an absolutely outrageous meal prepared by the incredible Chef Whitney Otawka. How did I come to experience such

Here’s a powerful question that came in through this blog: Chris, I work in an environment with 24-hour shifts, which creates a lot of social down time. It also gives ample opportunity for an individual to influence others. And sometimes, it is not always a good thing. An example is when an individual will hang

Years ago, I was asked to join a group evaluation on some animated video clips. The clips were going to precede lessons for a friend’s video product. It’s something that we do here, so I was honored to jump in. I also knew many of the team members, including the ones who had created the

This week I am teaching EntreLeadership Performance Series here in Tennessee, and will be finishing the week off with a couple of Formula races in Savannah. I’ve asked some of the incredibly talented commenters of this blog to share their wisdom. Here’s a great post by Aaron Nelson. Aaron is the owner of Epicenter Languages. You can guest post as well! Read

This week I am teaching EntreLeadership Performance Series here in Tennessee and will be finishing the week off with a couple of Formula races in Savannah. I’ve asked some of the incredibly talented commenters on this blog to share their wisdom. Here’s a great post by Laura Johnson. Check out her blog here. You can guest post as well! Read

This week I am teaching EntreLeadership Performance Series here in Tennessee, and will be finishing the week off with a couple of Formula races in Savannah. I’ve asked some of the incredibly talented commenters of this blog to share their wisdom. Here’s a great post by Lily Kreitinger. Lily’s specializes in helping companies effectively train

There is no doubt that as leaders, our job is to produce—to make more of our products or our services or our whatever each and every day. And as leaders, we have a tendency to get bogged down in our daily to-do lists to produce as much of our “whatever” as we can. The problem?