Trust begins with me. Trust begins with each and every one of us. Trust building is everyone’s responsibility. Here are a few key questions in which to start: How am I, as a leader or team member, practicing behaviors that foster, encourage and empower trust? Where am I experiencing areas of fear, vulnerability or doubt? [...]
Building Trust in Your Organization – Interview with Dennis & Michelle Reina.I am excited to welcome Dennis S. Reina and Michelle L. Reina, principals of The Reina Trust Building Institute, who specialize in the development of trust in the workplace. Based on this work, they have developed a model that defines the three types of [...]
What has been your favorite assignment in helping an organization to enhance their ability to trust? We enjoy working with committed leaders over time that recognize the value of trust in workplace relationships and the importance of building trust within their organizations to produce business results. (We don’t just build trust for the sake of [...]
Interview Part III with our guests Michelle and Dennis Reina from The Reina Trust Building Institute and authors of Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace Often time’s people believe trust is earned over time. Is this really true? Is there a way to accelerate trust among co-workers? There are no quick fixes to build trust- [...]
(Continued)This is Part II of an interview with both Michelle and Dennis Rienna based on the research done for their book Trust & Betrayal in the Workplace. Trust is often brought up as one of the core competencies that leaders must demonstrate. What is unique about your approach that helps leaders become trustworthy? We define [...]
Invictus is one of the best movies I have seen that demonstrates the power of symbols in leadership. Morgan Freeman plays Nelson Mandela. The movie represents Mandela’s use of the country’s rugby team as a symbol of solidarity against apartheid. If you lead an organization and want to learn how powerful symbols can be to [...]
by David Gray Channel partners play a critical role in your marketing mix. Your channel partners should be carefully chosen to complement the capabilities of your organization. For example, if your organization is excellent at product development and product offering, but not so good at promotion, then you will need a channel partner strong in [...]
Author: Gary B Cohen Reader’s Question: I am a sales manager for a business services firm in Minneapolis. I am responsible for all new business revenue for my company and I have 5 sales people that work for me. Of the 5 sales people only one is a star performer. The issue I am having [...]
About the DARPA Network Challenge To mark the 40th anniversary of the Internet, DARPA has announced the DARPA Network Challenge, a competition that will explore the roles the Internet and social networking play in the timely communication, wide-area team-building, and urgent mobilization required to solve broad-scope, time-critical problems. The challenge is to be the first [...]
Philosophy since the Enlightenment, by Roger Jones This is a great indexing of philosophy to get a more global picture of what has been thought and studied.
An Essay by Einstein — The World As I See It
In our interview with Bill Treasurer earlier this week he offered some insight into what questions leaders should ask their team or organizations: 1. Where are we playing it too safe, as a business, and why?2. How am I, as the leader, contributing to our playing it too safe as a business?3. What business situations [...]
In our interview earlier this week with Bill Treasurer he offered these top 10 questions he asks to help an organization build courage: 1. What do we want to become as a business?2. How can courage be applied to help us get to where we want to be?3. Where are we playing it too safe, [...]
A continuation of the interview with Bill Treasurer. Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a courage-building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously. Bill is also the author of Courage Goes to Work (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008), a book about how to inspire more courageous [...]
Bill Treasurer is founder and Chief Encouragement Officer at Giant Leap Consulting (GLC), a courage-building company that exists to help people and organizations live more courageously. Bill is also the author of Courage Goes to Work (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2008), a book about how to inspire more courageous behavior in workplace settings. He has been cited [...]
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