Building teams
Successful leadership involves building cohesive and high-performing teams. Our contributors provide strategies for team building, including fostering collaboration and promoting a positive team culture. Learn how to identify and leverage individual strengths, resolve conflicts, and maintain team morale.
Strategic Vulnerability and Sharing Just Enough to Shift the Room
Vulnerability in leadership is powerful, but only when used with intention. Strategic vulnerability is the art of sharing just enough to build trust, lower tension, and move conversations forward without...
How I Built a Team That’s More Accountable, Appreciative, and Action-Taking
When I started my practice, my vision was simple: I wanted to create the kind of clinic I’d want to go to myself. Having navigated my own recovery from the chronic fatigue, constant headaches...
The Shift System™ – A 5-Week Emotional Reset for Teams Built on Trust, Clarity & Real-World Momentum
In many workplaces, teams aren't broken, they're simply out of emotional sync. The real issue isn’t disengagement but the silent drift that comes from being overworked and undervalued.
When English Isn’t Enough and How to Lead Multicultural Teams Without a Shared Language
Even if your team speaks some English, that doesn't guarantee a connection, and in many cases, they don't speak it at all. In multilingual production environments, leaders often work with team members...
How to Effectively Hire a COO – 2 Years of Steady Growth
Many business owners reach a point where they feel like they’re juggling every responsibility alone, which can be overwhelming. This article explores how changes in business strategy and the decision...
Redefining Leadership For a Disrupted World
I’ve spent my life in boardrooms, classrooms, and community places where leadership reveals itself not in soundbites or slogans, but rather in action, in listening, and in showing up when it’s hard.
Thought Leadership Demystified – Earn Trust, Grow Influence, Lead Your Industry
The world doesn’t need more content; it needs more conviction. That’s why true thought leadership, though often misrepresented, is now a non-negotiable. Still, many confuse it with personal branding...
Transforming Business Leaders – Bridging the Gap Between Strategy and Mindset for Real Impact
In today’s dynamic business environment, great leadership goes beyond strategy, it requires a transformative mindset. In this article, Luis Vicente García, a seasoned business coach and founder of Incrementum Academy...
Leading Through the AI Shift and How to Embrace Innovation While Supporting Human Resistance
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is no longer a concept reserved for tech conferences and future forecasts; it’s now an active presence in how we lead, communicate, and work. For leaders across industries...
Redefining Human Relationships Through the Ally Ethos
This article contends that the truest form of human relationship is not friendship, but allyship, defined by ethos, permanence, and protective loyalty. In global affairs, the word "ally" evokes images...
Visionary Leadership – Empowering Teams and Navigating Change Through Authentic Personal Branding
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, the ability to inspire, guide, and unify a team is paramount. For C-suite leaders, executives, and sales leaders, this isn't just about achieving quarterly...
Building Better Kitchen Teams Through Communication
If you ever want to test your stress tolerance, try leading a kitchen team for the first time when you’re fresh out of the kitchen yourself, and suddenly responsible for making sure chaos doesn’t reign.
The Cure for Rappathy Is Organizational Emotional Entrainment
Across boardrooms, breakrooms, and backlogs, something invisible is hollowing out the heart of our organizations. It’s not laziness. It’s not incompetence. It’s not a lack of strategy.
Leadership Is the Feeling That Draws People In and Moves Them to Follow
The following article is adapted from a leadership speech delivered by Annette and Matthew Hutcheson to State of Idaho employees in July 2024. Leadership is often mistaken for charisma, confidence...
One Student Program that Started Small – Then It Began Changing Lives
This month was a special collaboration moment; I would love for Ariana Del Re to share the tremendous success of the collaboration and how others can get involved with like-minded versions for intergenerational connections.
The Pygmalion Effect in Leadership and the Element That Changes Everything
To better understand the topic of this article, I invite you to do a short exercise. Go back to your childhood, when you were in school. Think of a teacher who used to say something about you that...
The Leader’s Role in Creating a Satisfied, Resilient Workforce
Employee satisfaction is not merely an added benefit; it is crucial for long-term success. Many leaders must adopt this mindset change. Frequently, satisfaction is seen as a “luxury,”...
Duty of Care and Protecting People in High-Pressure Industries
The phrase "duty of care" has often been used in performance environments and can often attract media attention when something has gone wrong in a performance culture, when people fall through...
How High Value Leadership Is the Critical Driver of Organizational Success
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, traditional command-and-control leadership approaches are increasingly ineffective. Organizations seeking sustainable success require a new...