Education

What’s the most effective change initiative you’ve experienced in your career? What did leaders do to engage, inform, and involve you?

I know isolation. I know change and uncertainty. What it means to have your world toppled upside down.

Creating a compelling team vision is a terrific activity for engaging team members in the core work of the team.

Taking a moment to identify individual and group needs and then deliberately making the effort to address those needs will greatly enhance your leadership and the effectiveness of your team.

These digital natives are already disrupting several other industries and modernizing how companies conduct business. The water industry is perfectly suited for this disruption.

One thing is certain, more change is sure to come as the Coronavirus continues to consume lives and we all learn to deal with confinement.

We often hear leaders say that employees are their organization’s most important resource. Unfortunately, too often this is just a slogan.

Perhaps the biggest challenge the Covid-19 Pandemic brings is how to lead in a crisis, in which the ground appears to change by the hour and in some instances by the minute.

The typical response to crises is often described as “managed chaos”. This is particularly true when the onset is sudden, the affect is broad, and the duration lingers.

Our world desperately needs servant leaders – in our organizations, in our neighborhoods, in our political system, in our court system – basically, everywhere. Servant leaders create environments where values – how people treat each other – are as important as results.