By Michael Holland - When a leader holds onto a project or work that could be delegated, is he being selfless or selfish? Is he supporting and protecting his employees or is he limiting their growth potential? Is he making sure things are done right or is he limiting the opportunities for innovation in [...]
Your leadership team meets. Everybody talks. Lots of nodding. Then you leave, and people interpret what you said in three completely different ways. Your manager briefs her team on a new initiative. Everyone engages. Two weeks later, they're working at cross-purposes because they understood the "why" so differently that the what fell apart. Here's what [...]
By Michael Holland - There’s your boss swaggering down the hallway on the way to his next meeting. He has no clue how much he doesn’t know about leading well. You’ve just completed your super impactful #Leadwell people leadership training program and now you know just how far from a great leader your [...]
By Michael Holland - Whether alone or in meetings, many believe that they are getting lots of work completed because we are great at multi-tasking. There’s an urban myth that says we are so much more productive because we are multi-tasking. But science proves it wrong: we actually do things in sequence. Now, those [...]
By Michael Holland - Bobby Jones was a very honest man. Extremely honest. Tons and tons of integrity. He didn’t have to tell people he was honest or that he had integrity. Because he behaved in ways that revealed his integrity. Long story short, Bobby Jones was playing in a critical golf tournament. [...]
by Michael Holland - In 1994 I made a classic management mistake. It involved a very stressful job, a struggling team, and two bags of marshmallows. The short version of the story is that a consistently tardy team member to critical team meetings received a barrage of marshmallows when he arrived late, yet [...]
By Michael Holland - When a leader delegates they can picture very clearly what it is they want done. So they believe that they are communicating clearly to their employee. But there’s a villain of natural psychology that limits our capability to communicate clearly and that villain is the curse of knowledge*. The [...]
By Michael Holland Imagine a seasoned leader's answer to my question of have you been through a leadership training program in your career. . ."Sure, over my 20 year career, I went to a management training program; and then another. I went to a leadership development program that lasted a couple of days. I [...]
