6 Steps to Sustainable Leadership: Feedback Mechanisms

Posted on May 2, 2012 by Al Gonzalez

Have you ever heard anything like this at your office or workplace: “How dare Roberto tell ME that I could do better? He just wants to get all the credit and attention after we do all the work!  He actually left Rosita out of our meeting yesterday!  Wait until I tell her about this, she [...]

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6 Steps to Sustainable Leadership: Maintaining Harmony

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Al Gonzalez

We all play a role in conflict development. And supervisors need to help all team members understand how conflict develops and what we can do to manage it.    This is critical to enabling the team’s ability to maintain harmony, maximize its strengths and consistently exceed expectations. On Leadership and Self-Deception The most influential book I [...]

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6 Steps to Sustainable Teams: Growing the Sphere of Influence

Posted on March 26, 2012 by Al Gonzalez

In order to consistently deliver influential and successful products, the supervisor must focus on establishing a strong foundation or “safety zone” where trust and safety are nurtured for all staff members. The safety zone can become a source of creativity and energy which enables the team to influence others in their division, the organization, and [...]

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6 Steps to Sustainable Teams: Safety and Trust

Posted on February 19, 2012 by Al Gonzalez

It is amazing how most teams are brought together and asked to accomplish extremely complicated goals without taking steps to develop trust among team members.   I understand that factors beyond our control will often require leaders to quickly assemble teams without much notice. This is a reality of our professional lives. However, I have [...]

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6 Steps to Sustainable Leadership: Team Balance

Posted on February 9, 2012 by Al Gonzalez

In organizations, having human beings of all different stripes working together can be quite a complex undertaking. With all the personalities, pre-wired dispositions, and learned behaviors, managing and leading a team of people toward unified goals can almost seem impossible. Fortunately, we have instruments and tools to help us! Leadership Toolbox I have learned a [...]

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6 Steps to Sustainable Teams: Start with Strengths

Posted on January 13, 2012 by Al Gonzalez

A great leader does what they can to make themselves and people around them succeed and excel to their fullest potential. If you as a leader aren’t doing this, then it’s time to focus on becoming a “Maximizer.” Maximizer:  People with the “Maximizer Theme” focus on others’ strengths as a way to stimulate personal and [...]

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Leading Green: 6 Steps to Sustainable Teams

Posted on November 21, 2011 by Al Gonzalez

The key to leading sustainable teams, or “Leading Green,” is to enable an organizational culture that is full of trust and free of fear, instead of full of fear and free of trust. If you are a supervisor who has already accomplished this, read no further. However, if you are like most of us and [...]

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