Accountability can be a scary word, but is also a critical concept to progressing an organization's goals. In our latest blog we discuss how earning trust, building culture, establishing clear expectations and transparency, and understanding an organization's purpose all contribute to developing accountability across teams. Once accountability has been established, teams can employ a variety of different mechanisms to report on project progress, such as Scrum, team or one on one meetings.

Sometimes it can feel like as a leader you have to do everything yourself. But being a leader isn’t something you have to do alone. Depending on where you are at in your career, there are different types of relationships that you can lean on to help you in your growth. One of those relationships is the one you build with a coach. Learn more about the relationship with a business and leadership coach in our latest blog, Don’t Go It Alone.

Managing Up is the art of making your leader's job easier. Perhaps when you think about management you envision a people leader, someone who makes decisions or the person you report to at work. However, management isn’t just reserved for the individual leading a team or organization because management is also the act of achieving one’s purpose. Regardless of your position in an organization, you have the opportunity to manage your relationships. Learn more about the art of managing up, down and sideways in our latest blog.

Leadership can be lonely and leading in today’s environment adds a new level of stress. However, there are steps individuals can take to manage stress at any level. Consider each of the steps listed in our latest blog to see what might work best for you.

Fear of making mistakes can be paralyzing or can result in taking action that isn’t best for the organization or prohibiting you from taking the necessary action to truly advance. This cycle is hard to get out of, thus causing you to make the same type of mistake again and again without learning from it. Embrace the fact that mistakes happen, and sometimes you can benefit from making mistakes, iterating and moving forward. In our latest blog we discuss why it’s important to make mistakes, and how you can turn a mistake into a success.

To thrive in this challenging environment, companies need agile and effective tools, systems, and processes. More than anything, they need people who can develop and maintain all three. Employee engagement is the secret sauce behind many successful ventures, and in a fiercely competitive environment, it has never been more important to understand how to effectively engage employees who can make tremendous impact within your business.

In our latest blog, learn about how you can implement an employee engagement strategy in your business.

A leadership style is a lot like your wardrobe. You can try on different looks depending on the occasion. What you wear to dinner with your friends may look different from what you wear to the gym. Like a wardrobe, you develop a personal style by trying on the same looks day after day. Through experimentation you get something closer to your style - something you're more comfortable with and what people will come to expect of you.

If you think about great leaders like Jacinda Ardern, Tim Cook, Stacey Abrams, or Satya Nadella, one thing that stands out is their leadership style. In every interaction we send signals about how to interact with us and how we interact with others. As we do that, we are developing a style, and the more we repeat those signals, the more distinctive our style becomes.

Learn more about developing your leadership style in our latest blog post “Flexing Your Leadership Style”.

"Some days I know I've worked all day long, and yet there is still so much to get done. I check the clock and 8 hours have passed, but where has the time gone? A look at my calendar validates my suspicions. I'm spending too much time in meetings!

A quick Google search confirms the average person spends approximately half of their work week in meetings. If we tallied up the time spent on emails, and answering instant messages, I wonder how much time we'd have left over for the work we need to get done.

In order to free up more working hours, we have to strike the right balance between meetings, email and IMs. We offer up some ideas on how you can use each of the communication methods to effectively engage with your team in our latest blog post, "When Delivery's Half the Battle".