By Michael Holland - While on your way to a meeting, you get word that the meeting is being rescheduled. You now have 45 minutes of found time. Found time is like winning a small lottery. You smile like when you walk outside on the first really nice day of spring. Great leaders [...]
by Michael Holland The depth and breadth of a well prepared performance review is directly proportional to the amount of information you have on the employee for the whole period of time. Tracking employee progress between reviews is something every leader is doing - well, every leader should be doing. The question is [...]
By Michael Holland - Once, when I was scheduling the next coaching session with a leader, I was able to see her Outlook calendar. She made a comment about constantly being double-booked for time slots for meetings and at times triple-booked. And that she routinely was in back-to-back meetings throughout a day sometimes [...]
In several books by Stephen Covey, he describes a framework for prioritizing work that is aimed at achieving long-term goals by understanding the lack of need for work on tasks that appear to be urgent, but are in reality less important. He uses a time management 4 box method to categorize tasks on two continuum: [...]
In today’s fast-paced, competitive business world, trust is not just a soft skill; it’s the cornerstone of effective leadership and high-performing organizations. Stephen M. R. Covey’s The Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything brings trust to the forefront of organizational success by breaking down its tangible impact on the bottom line. [...]
By Michael Holland - Having worked with hundreds and hundreds of leaders, I find so many lack focus on working to become effective at leading well. The key is micro-behaviors. Those little things that we do that have longer term ripple impacts. The gap for most leaders comes from not intentionally creating habits that [...]
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 [...]
By Michael Holland - Every day, there they are, these 3-minute slices of time. Some days there might be four of them, the next there could be seven. These tiny slices of time come about when walking down a hallway, waiting for a video meeting to start, during a break in a long [...]
By Michael Holland - Listen to this blog post: A few years ago, I got caught up in trying to get in better shape to lose weight. I focused my energy on the goal of losing weight which, unfortunately, was the wrong problem to solve. To be successful, I needed to look [...]
By Michael Holland - I love the look of that frantic leader who is lost in the world of overbooked meetings, a flooded inbox with hundreds of emails, and employees frustratingly lined up at the boss' door to ask questions. It's that scene in a movie where you don't want to watch the dramatic climax [...]
