by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
New leaders often say yes too often and do too much of the work of others. I know, I’ve been there! But it doesn’t work, you come up short on the tasks that only you can do as a leader. We do it out of sincerity and to be seen as a ‘good’ sport. For some...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
If you read my latest Sandbox article, you will know that I have had experiences that keep me humble when it comes to my leadership performance. Like most challenges and failures, they teach us something important, that we might not have learned had we not encountered...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
How often do you ask about the needs, interests and aspirations of your Team Members and Direct Reports? Do you ask once a year at the annual performance review or maybe the last time was during the hiring interview? When I ask this question of Leaders, I notice they...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
Do you seek to understand others’ perspectives? This question comes from the Trust Self-Assessment Questionnaire that I use when working with senior leadership teams. Like many of the questions, there is often a significant difference between the rating the leaders...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
Managers, have a lot to handle. You keep everyone motivated and focused on the right things. You’re responsible for the product/service being delivered to the customer as promised. Your boss expects reports, projections and results achieved under budget. What...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
When I first became a Leader, I had an employee who exclaimed in exasperation one day at a staff meeting: “I could get my own work done if it weren’t for the people”! He was young and needed quiet space to work at his best. I was young and inexperienced too. I...
by The Nelson Team | May 24, 2025 | Article Posts
Before you answer the question, I want to be absolutely clear that this poll cannot be viewed as scientific research for a host of reasons. Nonetheless, I share it because it does mimic a well known and researched pattern. We all have blind spots in our assessment of...
by The Nelson Team | May 21, 2025 | Article Posts
🐟 Fish don’t manipulate the water they swim in. 🦅 Birds don’t control the weather they fly in. 🐜 Animals don’t construct the earth they forage in (except maybe beavers) . 🕺🏾 And humans don’t manage TIME. Attempting to manage time would be like trying to contain...
by The Nelson Team | Oct 12, 2021 | Article Posts
This is one in a series of stories about communication conflicts that occur on Teams and between Colleagues and Leaders. It is a companion to the series about nasty self-talk. The negative energy resulting from interpersonal communication conflicts and self-talk is...
by The Nelson Team | Jul 31, 2021 | Article Posts
It is an abstract question to consider, until you are faced with a challenge. As a coach, equipped with the science, training and practice provided through Shirzad Chamine’s Positive Intelligence program, I was feeling confident that I had built a deep reservoir of...
