by John Havlik | May 16, 2018 | Team Building
“Just make it happen!” Jeez! During my 30+ years in the Navy, I can’t tell you how many times I heard that phrase from senior leaders. And it wasn’t exactly helpful: a vague, open-ended statement like this (what I call “JMIH”) provided no...
by Bill Treasurer | Apr 3, 2018 | Team Building
I’ve been blessed to have many mentors over the years. One who stands out is Hines Brannan, my former boss during my years working at Accenture, a large management consulting company. Though I haven’t worked for Accenture in sixteen years, and Hines retired about the...
by Bill Treasurer | Aug 29, 2017 | Courageous Leadership, Leadership Development, Team Building
“Culture isn’t just one aspect of the game, it is the game.” – Lou Gerstner, Former CEO, IBM Webster’s Dictionary defines culture as “the integrated pattern of human behavior that includes thought, speech, action, and artifacts and depends on man’s capacity for...
by Bill Treasurer | Oct 12, 2016 | Courageous Leadership, Team Building
Great teams take time to develop. For seven years I traveled around the world as a member of the U.S. High Diving Team, diving from heights that scaled to over 100 feet into small pools that were only 10 feet deep. If we didn’t team well together, people could die. So...
by Bill Treasurer | Aug 16, 2016 | Leadership Development, Personal Growth, Team Building
Great leaders are great at leading change in their organizations and effectively combat the resistance that often keeps changes from being implemented. Though resistance is a natural and inevitable part of the change process, it still gets in the way. However, what...
by Bill Treasurer | Aug 2, 2016 | Courageous Leadership, Leadership Development, Personal Growth, Team Building
In my work as a courage-builder, I describe three distinct types of courage: TRY Courage, TRUST Courage, and TELL Courage. TRY Courage is taking action to do something you’ve never done before. TELL Courage is being a truth-teller, especially when it’s hard to assert...
