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December, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESIn our core education, we simplify the concept of attitude to its foundation: Are you leaning towards something or are you pulling away? As we reflect back on 2020, and look forward to 2021, what is your attitude going to be?...

december, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESAs many of us are leading knowledge workers, who we expect to be creative and strategic, we want to redefine how we Energize Action. To clear their minds and increase their creativity and problem-solving ability, we want to...

DECEMBER, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESInboarding recognizes that Onboarding is not a one-and-done process. Inboarding is the ongoing practice of keeping your team engaged, productive and aligned. As you communicate your strategy for 2021, you want to continue to...

December, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTETHE WINNER’S CIRCLEStrategy tends to be a long-term focus and alignment to create steady growth. With uncertainty in so many markets these days, “long-term” is the end of this quarter. We want to take a more agile approach to...

December, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESLast week, we covered goals that were met, or nearly met. This week, we address the situation where a team member is not achieving their goals at all. There are three questions, for your review, that provide context and a...

November, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESAs we enter the last month of the year, we are faced with the goals we met and those we didn’t. (If we are achieving 100% of our goals, we are not stretching ourselves or our team.) Now, if we have been stretching, how do we...

November, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESAs leaders, we often hang onto employees, who do not fit into the organization, for too long. There is a mix of reasons and rationale we tell ourselves, but these come at the expense of the culture and the performance of the...

November, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLES A great conversation to have with your team (especially if they are leading their own teams) is around the difference between leading volunteers versus leading employees. Not only does this conversation reveal their...

november, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTETHE WINNER’S CIRCLEAs we attempt to create more agile organizations, pivoting to meet the emerging opportunities in the marketplace, we understand that we need to take risks. At the same time, the culture we have created has...

october, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESThis is typically a tough conversation. Your team member has grown in their performance, but in your eyes, you know they aren’t yet ready for a more senior role. When we create a list of hurdles to jump and clear, we...

October, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESWhen we get set in our ways, convinced that only our way is the right way, it is very easy for us to see the world around us as in desperate need of fixing. This self-proclaimed Captain of the World approach is frustrating...

October, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESWhile teaming and collaboration are ubiquitous in our organizations, high functioning teams are not. And while most of us and our team members have learned to play nicely in the sandbox, larger goals and incentives still can...

october, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESWhen we are leading others, we are shaping their behaviors with our expectations. While we may be conscious of many of our expectations, both explicit and implicit, there are many more expectations that we are completely...

september, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESAs organizations are pivoting or panicking during this time of COVID, many leaders are looking for a silver bullet. They want to have that Agile Culture, or is it the Culture of Diversity and Inclusion, or perhaps the Sales...

september, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESWe have all heard the mantra – fail early and fail often. As we Nurture Growth in our teams, we say this to inspire innovation. Innovation requires divergent thinking, taking a risk and the possibility of failure or a false...

september, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESNone of us likes to be micro-managed by others, but most of us will micro-manage at times.  More often than not, when we micro-manage, we believe that we are coaching. To Energize Action, we need to understand how to avoid...

September, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESGetting locked into how something needs to be done holds back our teams and ourselves.  When we Connect the Dots by focusing on the “why” of our project, we engage our team into a purpose that drives action and...

september, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESThis Leadership Series generally focuses on the nuances needed to help lead a team and culture to better performance by following the model of Connect the Dots, Energize Action and Nurture Growth. The assumption is that the...

august, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESPivot! is the buzz word of the moment. The reality is that it is just good change management. To pivot is when leaders Energize Action in their teams so that they let go of the past and move towards a viable future. Here are...

August, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESAs you are Connecting the Dots for your team, it is essential to keep these guidelines in mind:Active ListeningThe key to effective listening is to start with the belief that the person speaking has value. Many of us get caught...

August, 2020THE PACIFIC INSTITUTEARTICLESYour 7-point checklist Mihály Csíkszentmihályi, a Hungarian psychologist, coined the phrase “FLOW” that describes a healthy mental state in which a person is so immersed in the task at hand that it creates a focus and...