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Lead with Questions
Ego vs. Altruism Why is it important to lead with questions? Why this strategy over others? Organizations are made up of people. Like you, every employee has his/her own goals, aspirations, concerns,...
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Followership
READING TIME: 15 minutes Introduction Although the importance of a good leader cannot be denied, followers also play an equally important, if often overlooked, role in the success of any group or...
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Who should be in your personal network, and how do you build one? (Part 2)
The answer to “Who should be in your personal network?” is simpler than you might imagine. Pretty much everybody that you meet and like. There has to be more to it than that, right? Nope, not really....
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Personal network building with social media (Part 3)
Social media take on many different forms: newspapers, magazines, newsletters, internet forums, web logs (blogs), wikis, podcasts, webinars, and the list goes on. Some are principally one-way...
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Change Your Questions, Change Your Life (Part 3)
Asking Questions is foundational to CO2 Partners and the founder Gary Cohen. Mr. Cohen is not alone in his remarkable approach to leadership: ask great questions. In this series of posts, I am...
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Change Your Questions, Change Your Life (Part 4)
Leading with Questions Asking Questions is foundational to CO2 Partners and founder Gary Cohen. He is not alone in his remarkable approach to leadership: ask great questions. In this series of posts, I...
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Change Your Questions, Change Your Life (Part 5)
Asking Questions is the foundation of CO2 Partners and founder Gary Cohen. He is not alone in his remarkable approach to leadership: ask great questions. In this series of posts, I have been discussing...
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Personal Network Building through the Human Touch (part 5)
Building Your Personal Network through the Human Touch “Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.” –Theodore Roosevelt The single best way to build a personal network is to...
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Personal network building through sharing (part 6)
Personal network building through sharing Build your personal network by sharing it generously. Keith Ferrazzi, author of Never Eat Alone, believes that this strategy is critical to building not just...
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High Status Humor
High Status Cautionary Tale Amy Langer is one of the most admired business leaders in the Twin Cities, as is her business partner, John Folkestad. Their company, Salo, LLC, has been on the Twin Cities...
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Personal network building through listening (part 7)
Building personal network through listening In previous posts, we presented the idea of building your personal network through the human touch and building your personal network through sharing. In...
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Becoming a Leader (Part 1)
Becoming a Leader Being an achiever requires intelligence, knowledge, and skill. Becoming a leader requires these elements, too, but leaders must also have Emotional Intelligence (sometimes referred to...
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Personal network building by putting trust to work (part 8)
In previous posts we have covered building your personal network through: The human touch Sharing, and Listening Personal Networks Require Trust Today’s focus is trust, which is essential to building...
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Why might my favorite employee be undermining my leadership?
Why might my favorite employee be undermining my leadership? One of the questions I ask leaders is “Who do you eat lunch with?” Some eat alone, with clients, or with friends from outside of work, as...
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The Question-able Habits of Successful Leaders
Habits of successful leaders can be punctuated with a question mark! “Excellence is not an act but a habit that we repeatedly do.” – Aristotle In conducting over 100 interviews of highly successful...
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Interview Questions–Inspired by Outward Bound
Interview Questions are about discovering traits, skills, competencies in others. Some of the best interview questions then come from places of enduring values. Kurt Hahn was the founder of Outward...
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Karpman’s Drama Triangle: Gossip Kills Productivity
The Drama Triangle The health and efficiency of an organization can be judged by how often triangulation occurs and whether or not it is tolerated by leaders. Triangulation is when two parties don’t...
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7 Steps for Stopping Betrayal at Work
by Gary CohenBetrayal at Work Betrayal is a violation of trust, which is why it feels so gut-wrenchingly awful and can come as such a shock. We often don’t or can’t see it coming. And we’re often left...
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Self Portrait | David Whyte
by Gary Cohen It doesn’t interest me if there is one God Or many gods. I want to know if you belong or feel Abandoned If you know despair or can see it in others. I want to know If you are prepared to...
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4 Steps to Ease Difficult Conversations with Employees
by Gary CohenDifficult Conversations How do you approach difficult conversations? Do you avoid them for as long as you can? Do you have an intermediary broach the topic for you? Do you use questions...
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