Here’s 5 qualities to keep in mind when measuring a new hire’s or future leader’s potential...

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We all know the type of people that are just plain nice. They are the ones that are always asking how they can help. As leaders...

At the end of many days, you may feel like you sorted gravel instead of focusing on your big rocks. In the previous article, we learned...

We’ve all attended bad meetings.  Meetings that take too long and that have one person monopolizing the conversation the whole time.  I posted this guide recently on LinkedIn that some people could utilize in a meeting to decide whether or not they should speak up and when. Some people loved it and others seemed angry.  I remember the moment Courtland James , one of our executive coaches at Cortex, gave it to me to review.  I said to him, “Wow, this could really help some of

Are you looking for a quick way to identify what type of DISC behavioral style someone is at work?  See if you can match the person’s actions with the lists below. Driver’s main characteristic is dominance.  They operate at a faster pace, are task-oriented, and can get upset if something does not seem efficient. Influencer’s main characteristic is just that.  They operate at a faster pace and are people oriented.  They tend to not like conflict and would rather avoid it an

Do you know the root cause of your biggest problem right now? By:  Lynda McNutt Foster Lynda, the email started.  It was from someone who had graduated a few years ago from our leadership program.  I remember them as smart and capable and I had heard they had been recently promoted.  Here’s what they asked me after some niceties: I’m stuck.  The new position I’m in now is really fast-paced.  I had relied previously on just jumping in and doing things when they didn’t get done

Who shares in your vision?   How reflective of your organization’s current culture is your vision?  Are your frontline team members, that have the most amount of contact with your citizens, clients, or customers, engaged and enthusiastic about your vision? With 67% of people reporting to Gallup they are disengaged at work, and competition for time and people’s attention at an all-time high, starting with why they want to work for your organization could be a good place to b

I am, and perhaps you are too when you look up the definition of what prejudice is. Prejudice:   Any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable. I have a prejudice against people who don’t want to learn.  My mind has trouble understanding how someone can solve problems, permanently, if they don’t take the time to learn enough about what be causing that problem in the first place. I’m prejudice when it comes to hard work.  This serves me well sometimes an

Tough, thoughtful, questions produce the best answers.  Are you asking yourself and your team enough of them?  As a leader, what are the best questions to ask and when?  In Peter Senge’s timeless work, The Fifth Discipline:  The Art & Practice of a Learning Organization, leaders learn which disciplines they need to develop to be prepared to ask the right questions, at the right times, to the appropriate people. The foundation of his work is based on creating a learning organ

You know the story.  Green guy named Grinch hates Christmas and steals all the presents from the Whos in Whoville.  Afterward, he sits comfortably perched above their town on the hill, waiting for them to be completely miserable because of his theft and ransacking of their homes, but instead he hears something unexpected.  They sing.  They sing loudly and beautifully with joy in the hearts and the feeling of true blessing in their souls.  Turns out he couldn’t steal the true

Conversational Intelligence at work is necessary for building trust. Not using it could lead to disengagement. You’ll learn the signs of trust and how to tap into people’s highest level thinking potential. Join Becky Freemal, anchor of WFXR news, with Judith Glaser, author of Conversational Intelligence and Lynda McNutt Foster, CEO of Cortex Leadership Consulting. Transcript Becky:  Welcome back for our podcast, or as we often call it at the Cortex Leadership Consulting, our

A Beginner's Mind by: Lynda McNutt Foster, CEO and Founder My first job, outside of my family’s art business, was when I was 16 and working at Bojangles. I remember trying to solve a problem with customer flow.   I asked my supervisor when I was working on the line dishing out chicken, beans, and dirty rice, why we did it in the order we were doing it in.  I thought maybe it could be more efficient if we changed things slightly as it might make the line go faster when we were

Many of our Leading a Winning Team modules can be delivered as a standalone workshop for your team or department.  This high impact, high engagement workshops teach teams valuable communication and leadership skills, while building cohesion and unity within the group. Some examples of our more than 200 workshops available include: DISC/Motivators: Foundations for Better Communication Participants will complete a DISC and Motivators assessment and bring the report to your Jump

Training leaders to use new tools and create consistent habits doesn’t sound like it would be hard work.  It actually is. 

An adaptive company culture that is aligned to your business goals can help you outperform your competitors by up to 200% some studies...

Sometimes we measure productivity on how "busy" we are.  As a leader, though, your ability to measure whether you and your team are being...

Our firm finished analyzing some research based on data collected from an assessment called the Team Work Cycle that I thought you might...

Turns out that your IQ isn’t as important as your EQ (emotional intelligence) when it comes to being successful in business.  Here’s some in

To execute the behavior of effective problem solving, or any of the other behaviors I mention in the ebook, leaders must first possess these