by Scott Anderson | Mar 29, 2017 | Leadership, Uncategorized
This is the third post on “What Not To Do And How Not To Do It” about six of the biggest leadership mistakes and how to stop making them. Today’s topic is Bad Manners. This may seem a little Pollyannaish, but it’s amazing what an important role manners...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 23, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
This is the second post on “What Not To Do And How Not To Do It” about six of the biggest leadership mistakes and how to stop making them. Today we’re going to talk about Excuses—why the excuse-making habit is so destructive and what can be done to overcome this....
by Scott Anderson | Mar 15, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
When we become parents, we tell ourselves we won’t make the same mistakes our parents made; similarly, most leaders start out by telling themselves they won’t make the same mistakes they’ve seen other leaders make. And just as with parenting, it’s easier said...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 8, 2017 | Uncategorized
When it comes to making difficult decisions, conventional wisdom says Trust your gut. Recent research affirms the connection between your gut and your state of mind. Stanford University’s Justin and Erika Sonnenburg write, “The enteric nervous system is often referred...
by Scott Anderson | Mar 1, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
This is the fourth in a series of four posts about the RGT coaching method. In the last few weeks, we discussed the basic principles, followed by more detailed posts about Roles and Goals. If you haven’t yet, you might want to read those before proceeding....
by Scott Anderson | Feb 23, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
Today is the third post in a series of four on the RGT Coaching method. If you haven’t yet, check out the introduction to RGT and last week’s post on “Roles.” It’s a cliche because it’s true: If you don’t know where...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 16, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture
Last week I introduced the RGT–Roles, Goals, and Tolls–Coaching method. As promised, today we’re going to cover the Roles element. When teams learn and practice RGT, they see almost immediate results. It provides a common leadership (and...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 8, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized, Workplace Culture, Workplace Issues
For the next few weeks, I’m going to write about RGT (Roles, Goals, and Tolls) coaching. This method can help you nip a lot of unnecessary management and leadership problems in the bud and even preempt a lot of problems before they can happen. It also gives...
by Scott Anderson | Feb 1, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized
Warning: Graphic content! (Not really.) I asked my first copy chief, an intimidatingly enormous Irishman from Y&R named Tom Hagan, what his favorite headline of all time was. Tom, being an eminently scorched-earth pragmatist, said, “Hemorrhoids?” which at the...
by Scott Anderson | Jan 25, 2017 | Coaching, Leadership, Uncategorized
If there is one attribute guaranteed to slow you down, it’s perfectionism. I’ve been thinking a lot about adaptive leadership lately (like there’s another kind?) and recently reread a Harvard Business Review article from way back in 2010,...
