What Every New Manager Needs to Know
Being asked to lead a team of people as a new manager means taking on accountability for both the production of the team as well as the individual performance of each team member. Some people step into a leadership role naively self-confident …
Achieve Team Leadership with A Common Vision
Do you know what the best predictor is of whether or not a new employee in many large companies will find themselves having a terrific supervisor? Unfortunately, all too often the answer is dumb luck. Few companies have a genuine commitment to …
Why You Need to Have Less Accommodation for Poor Leaders
I recently presented a 3-hour leadership workshop to a small group of executives. I was covering the combination of MindSet’s seven principles of leadership and a topic we call “big mistakes leaders make.” When we took a break after the first 90 …
YP Summit Negotiation Tactics [Video]
Blake and Brett spoke at the 2018 YP Summit on Negotiation Tactics – and explicitly discussed how anyone can save themselves $200,000 only by using words! If you want to develop additional professional and leadership skills like these, sign up for our …
The (Not So) Secret to Attracting and Engaging Millennials
Millennials (Generation Y) have been the topic of near-breathless conversation and speculation over the last decade – some of it on point, and other parts simplistic and useless. Defined slightly differently by a wide variety and authors and social commentators, Millennials are …
Stupid Idea – Let’s Have Lunch [Video]
Conflict is crucial for a company to excel – but can hurt a culture. In this video we examine how to have positive conflict and provide one insight that is useful for encouraging the right kind of conflict in your culture. …
Active Listening Tips: The Power Paradox
Many people define traits like influence and power as the degree to which people are likely to listen to, and take direction from, a person in authority. While this perspective may hold validity – especially at a snap moment in time – …
MindSet in Action: Negotiation Tactics [Video]
Blake and Brett presented at the YP Summit recently on Negotiation Tactics, and their insights and techniques have already started being put to good use by the attendees. Here’s how you can view the full video! Transcript: Brett and I were …
Why Leaders Need Intellectual Humility
I want to mention a descriptive term that compliments several important MindSets we teach: intellectual humility. Those fortunate enough to have a good amount of this trait have an awareness of the limits of their knowledge. They recognize that our natural egocentrism …
