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Why You Make So Much Money

By Michael Holland Question to Ponder:  Why have organizations invested such large sums of money to fund supervisors, team leaders, managers, project managers, regional managers, associate directors, directors, senior directors, VPs, senior VPs, CFOs, CAOs, CIOs, COOs, and CEOs? A very intriguing theme from the book The Smart Swarm: How to Work Efficiently, Communicate Effectively, and [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:34:16-04:00May 10th, 2012|Your Development|Comments Off on Why You Make So Much Money

How Interim Assignments Can Grow Leadership Capacity

by Michael Holland     The departure of a high level leader from an organization creates a vacuum of leadership. In rare circumstances a company actually has an up-to-date and implementable succession plan. But for most companies, the succession plan notebook sits right next to the dust covered copy of the strategic plan on the middle shelf [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:34:25-04:00May 4th, 2012|Building My Team|Comments Off on How Interim Assignments Can Grow Leadership Capacity

Priming Your Team to Be Energetic, Engaged

by Michael Holland     You’ve just finished a tough business call with a very rude, obnoxious person.  Now you are off to attend your team meeting.  Any guess as to the climate you’ll help create for that meeting?  Well social psychologists know very well what will likely happen. A team, like an individual, will follow the [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:34:35-04:00May 1st, 2012|Building My Team|1 Comment

Leadership Archaeologist

by Michael Holland     The interesting thing about people coming together in organizations is that they tend to create a mini-society and this society will have its own personality, rules, values and behaviors.  Leaders may tend to underestimate the ingrained culture within these mini-societies and overestimate their ability to change these mini-societies with simple [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:34:45-04:00April 27th, 2012|Your Development|Comments Off on Leadership Archaeologist

Avoid the Email Addiction, Time Block Your Day

by Michael Holland     How many emails do you receive on any given day?  Formal and informal studies differ on a solid average but the range runs from 48 to 75.  The addiction to email is real.  You need to immediately respond to the ding or ring indicating a message has arrived.  For leaders today, the [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:34:55-04:00April 18th, 2012|Productivity|Comments Off on Avoid the Email Addiction, Time Block Your Day

Create Organizational Clarity

by Michael Holland     I imagine that most employees can recite the general wording of the mission statement or vision statement or whatever statement is posted around their work environment.  In our own lives we all have statements we’ve memorized:  the Pledge of Allegiance, scouting pledges, the Lord’s Prayer, the first few phrases of Lincoln’s Gettysburg [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:35:04-04:00April 13th, 2012|Building My Team|Comments Off on Create Organizational Clarity

The Gap in Leadership Capacity

by Michael Holland     Assessing the impact of an organization’s leadership reveals an odd, almost indescribable foggy, murky blob of an answer.  We can plot out a nifty graph that shows the maturity of leaders based on facts about time in the role, education, depth and breadth of assignments, success of attaining metrics, employee retention, performance, [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:35:15-04:00April 5th, 2012|Your Development|Comments Off on The Gap in Leadership Capacity

Spice up Your Team Meetings

by Michael Holland     Spice up your ongoing team meetings with two simple practices. Rotate the Seats In many team meetings, especially those team meetings that occur on a regular basis, attendees often sit the same seat every week.  Guide a change in energy, perspective and attention by creating a purposeful rotation of seats. Make it [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:35:24-04:00April 3rd, 2012|Building My Team|Comments Off on Spice up Your Team Meetings

How Hiring is Like Storage Wars

by Michael Holland     The show, Storage Wars on A&E on A&E, provides a look into the world of modern day archeologists seeking treasures buried in storage units that have been forfeited due to nonpayment.  Potential bidders for the auction have the opportunity to look through the door of the storage unit for a couple of minutes, but [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:35:33-04:00March 30th, 2012|New Leader|Comments Off on How Hiring is Like Storage Wars

Get Naked to Build a Cohesive Team

by Michael Holland     How’s the social cohesion within your team?  To what extent are you and your team members really enjoying each other and relishing in each other’s successes?  Enjoying each other, now there’s a concept!  How on earth could I even begin to enjoy those people who seem to work so hard at making [...]

By |2026-04-15T20:35:45-04:00March 23rd, 2012|Building My Team|Comments Off on Get Naked to Build a Cohesive Team
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