Author: Nick

You Are Selfish his in no way is meant to be cynical, pessimistic, nor accusatory. Rather its meant to inform and bring more awareness to people around you, the reasons for their actions and how to lead them.  This also doesn’t mean that every human is lurking in the shadows planning to deceive someone.  What…

Priming and Delivering Empathetic Feedback No matter how much you want to help someone, giving feedback can make or break your buy-in.  The real issue is, how do we deliver it properly and without angering someone?  You may know what this person needs to get better.  Better yet, you may have a step by step…

Not Every Coach Wears a Whistle When anyone thinks about the image of a coach, everyone sees the image of a menacing intimidating face with a whistle.  Somewhere along the line, the word got tied up in this image and stays that way.  You’re a coach for someone whether you know it or not, so…

The Ultimate Guide to Creating Buy-in Introduction Here is your one stop spot for all things buy-in for your team.  What we decided to do here is list out all the things you’ll need in order to corral your team and get them behind one another from the start.  Although just getting the buy-in isn’t…

Core Values The Secret Code of the Group Creating buy-in more often that not comes down to awareness.  If you’re unsure of where the team’s culture stands, albeit toxic or cohesive, the language and core values the team abides by will tell you.  They may not have deliberately sat down and set up these core…

Eradicating the Ego Ego can be defined as a person’s sense of self-esteem or self importance.  Leadership positions can make it incredibly easy to have a sense of position, title, and power.  Too many times you can see results of this in the way people speak, treat people, and in what they say when others…

Building Trust If you don’t have this valuable component, you have nothing,  Plain and simple. Trust is the end-all-be-all to leading a group of people.  If you don’t have it, then you can pack your bags. A team of people will NEVER, I mean NEVER show up for you if you do not establish a…

Ganders, Geese and Getting the Team To Care(The Problem With Individual Contributors) We’ve established that YOU need to care.  Not just about the end result, but about the team being better as a collective whole, and about each individual.  To be honest, thats the easy part. Now for the hard part. The part that takes patience…

This One Word Is Killing Your Team and Your Buy-In   Many years ago at a time I wasn’t a manager I was in my first staff meeting.  To be honest much of the group wasn’t all too thrilled about having to attend these meetings and I can say, neither could I.  Maybe it was…