It’s Time to Make it Happen! Are you ready to make it happen for yourself and your team? Everyone juggles many roles – Spouse, parent, child, sibling, employee, boss, coworker, and friend, to name a few. It’s impossible to give the full attention you’d like to each one, so we are forced to make choices […]
Author Archives: Steve Caldwell
Hammer Time
Hammer Time Have you ever watched an employee go down the wrong road (yet again!) and then let the hammer fall? Ever had that happen to you? Unfortunately it happens too often. Letting the hammer fall isn’t what great leaders do. Great leaders want to see their team successful, and they will warn them when […]
One Second is All You Need to Become Focused
Do You Have a Second? And all it takes is one second. Jacqueline Carter is co-author of One Second Ahead – Enhance Your Performance at Work with Mindfulness and she and Steve engage in a fast-paced, humorous, yet thought-provoking and action-oriented conversation that leaves each of us with options we can immediately incorporate into our […]
The Skill Everyone Must Learn to Succeed
The Skill Everyone Must Learn to Succeed We each have our own definition of success, because we want to succeed in our own way. What if I told you that no matter how you define it, there is one skill you need to ensure it? So many of us fool ourselves by thinking we […]
Find Your True North and Lead
What is Your True North? It is critical for leaders to be clear about their True North. The leaders of yester-year can’t be the leaders of today with the evolutionary and revolutionary move from the ‘Me’ generation to the ‘We’ generation. While today’s young leaders desire collaboration, transparency and engagement they thrive on working in […]
Common Reasons We Don’t Listen
Common Reasons We Don’t Listen Why Don’t You Listen to Others? Do you believe you are listening because they are talking and you aren’t? How many times have you gone through that only to realize later that you didn’t understand what they were trying to tell you? Often managers justify their availability to listen by […]
Leadership Must Start With You
Being a good leader is difficult since for people to follow you, you must earn their respect and set a good example. If you want others to be well-disciplined, then the first person that needs to be disciplined is you. This is the thought behind being a good leader and is something that Retired Brigadier […]
Stop Expecting Others to Motivate You
Stop Expecting Others to Motivate You What does it take to motivate and inspire you? Are you so committed to your dream that nothing can stop you? Justin Morgan loved football, but high school injuries and a coach who laughed and said he would never be able to play in college stirred his desire to […]
Listening is Not This
Listening is Not This Without even being aware of it we are jumping to conclusions, answering questions before they are asked or still thinking about the next thing we need to do. It’s difficult to shut off our brain and simply focus on the person who is talking. It requires awareness and discipline. Start heightening […]
On Why Being a Rookie is Your Best Advantage
Let’s face it, we all have been there: looking for a new opportunity in our careers is not something new, it is in fact a dilemma that most, if not all of us, have been through. Most of the time, we fail to jump into a new opportunity because we were scared to be… rookies. […]