Our culture tends to define leadership narrowly. The word itself conjures a certain series of traits: bold, decisive, action-oriented, charismatic. It brings to mind a specific type of person. A person that […]
Leadership
How to Improve Employee Experience by Using Your “i’s”
Gone are the days where you can treat your employees like replaceable cogs that don’t have other options. Let me rephrase: Gone are the days where there are no visible consequences for […]
3 Ways to Deal with Your Crisco Watermelons
Most collaborative projects start out simple enough but somehow can end up getting slipperier and more chaotic as time goes on. Here are 3 things that you can keep in mind when […]
4 Statements Leaders Need to Be Saying More Often
A client of mine is going through a catalytic shift in her career where she’s bringing on someone to manage her current business while she’s moving on to manage someone else’s business. […]
Launch Your New Career: Leading Turnarounds and How It Shaped My Career
Leading through a turnaround or big mess scenario creates springboards for your career. In today’s atomic essay, I share the two most significant big mess scenarios that shaped my career. In The […]
Work From Home Workers Need Nudges To Go Home
When you’re working on-site or in the office, there are lots of cues and norms about when it’s time to go home. Without those cues and norms, WFH workers are struggling to […]
How Much of Your Team’s Time Is Spent Looking for (Metaphorical) Keys?
Many owners and leaders avoid making SOPs, checklists, and workflows because it takes time from doing the actual work. But when you look at what doing the actual work entails, it’s spending […]
3 Ways to Pay off Dunkirk Spirit Debt
Dunkirk Spirit is the extraordinary effort that teams have to muster to accomplish strategic imperatives while overcoming the effects of poor planning, coordination, communication, or unforeseen developments that require an urgent response. […]
Making Space to Let the Truth Come Out
Oftentimes, it’s only after space is made for the truth to come out that we can find the clarity and support we need. Recently, one of my favorite clients and humans felt […]
A Push to Get Clearer About Your Pull Factors
All too often, we decide to do things based on push factors, but it’s our pull factors that keep us going when the new devils who accompany the new levels show up. […]
Is Your Leadership Posture Working for You and Your Team?
This morning, I texted Cory the following: Remember to have fun today, bro. Especially during the dress rehearsal. We’ve got four-five months of ready-aim-fire-aim-fire in front of us and your first of […]
How to Improve Team Productivity with the Weekly Cadence
I wrote recently about how we were shifting our operations here at PF, and another concept we’ve been implementing lately is the weekly cadence. This is something Charlie’s been doing implicitly for […]
Three Delegation Skills to Get Your New Hires Contributing Right Away
After weeks — or maybe even months — of sifting through candidates, methodically hosting interview after interview, and finally narrowing your search down to the one right person, you’ve found your new […]
Behind the Curtain: Why and How We’re Changing Up Operations at PF
Here at Productive Flourishing, 2021 has been a year of change (not that 2020 wasn’t… I’ve been calling this year 2020 the Sequel: Now It’s Personal, which sounds much more epic when […]
6 Ways to Level Up Your Leadership
There comes a point during your work for a company — one that you know you want to stick with and grow with — when you feel prepared to take on more […]
The Difference Between Being Ready and Being Prepared
When we think about what the next step is that needs to be done to level up our work, our teams, or our business, we often think of if we are — […]
3 Ways to Overcome Business-Owner Burnout
Does your business look different than it did a year ago? How about two years ago? And, does it look different than it did six months ago? What about just a quarter […]
Use After Action Reviews (AAR) to Make Your Next Project Easier, Better, and More Fun – Finishing Strong Part 4
This final part of our Finishing Strong series takes what you’ve learned from all your hard work on your current project or season, and applies it to the next big thing you’ll […]