Master Tough Talks with Confidence

Raise The Bar’s Creative Learning Culture eBook shows you how to spark curiosity, foster innovation, and empower your team to learn, grow, and thrive together.

Raise The Bar’s High-Performance Meeting Toolkit is your go-to guide for running meetings that truly move work forward.

Getting your team moving in the same direction toward your desired future requires more than just effort and ruthless determination; it requires planning, structure and masterful communication.

As a manager or team member, how do you hold someone accountable in a way that creates positive behavior change versus resentment and negativity?

How is "failure" handled in your organization? Is it seen as an opportunity for learning and growth or handled with shame and blame?

Whether you’re competing for top talent or have your choice of highly qualified candidates, creating a human-first culture that invites people to join in on the company’s mission not only gives you a competitive edge in the marketplace, it also results in long-term buy-

If you want to create an environment where your people are excited to sign in to work, want to be an integral part of the team, look forward to growing and evolving over the course of years, not months, within their organization, then you should start empowering and ena

In this fast-paced world, an organization that stands still loses. There are a few things that are integral to maintaining and growing your market advantage and staying relevant: the market environment, innovative ideas, learning from past mistakes and constantly assess

How do leaders successfully drive organizational change inside an organization?

When a company has a culture built on effective leaders, ones who inspire and coach each other, it has a team that works together to reach its full potential.

People don’t leave companies, they leave managers. Bad managers not only play a huge role in turnover at an organization, they also hold back people and teams from being agile, innovative and ultimately productive.

Crises are inevitable. It’s not how to avoid them; rather, it’s about how you show up and the choices you make when faced with tough decisions

How do you know when something an employee did requires more than just sharing what didn’t work and actually requires a deeper dive with…

Whenever you have a team of people working together, there will, inevitably, be challenges. Team agreements set the ground rules for working with each other, what’s okay and not okay to say or do and how you can best communicate together.

People leave their managers, not their jobs.

To operate in this new world as an effective business leader, you will need to be ready to lead remotely.

As your business scales, moving the team forward is harder and more overwhelming than it’s ever been. Why is this happening?

Scheduling your leadership drives consistency in the way you lead, what you accomplish and what others can expect of you as a leader. You can also gain more clarity and focus on yourself and your employees.

Holding a stay interview can have an immediate impact on your team. It will help you learn more about your people while also letting them know you care about their growth and development.

The key to listening is to listen without an agenda, without a place to go and without a determination to make. It’s listening to hear the other person.

Listening with intention and attention affords you and your team a tremendous opportunity to lead on a whole new level -- to truly hear. If you can show people you care and make them feel heard, you’ll endear them to you, engage them with their work and motivate them.

As more diversity is encouraged in the startup world, it can only serve to benefit our society, increasing innovation and opportunity for all involved.

Top performers are promoted because of their ability to do work well, not because of their ability to lead.

Attracting talent is something companies must focus their energy and resources on. Yet, in meeting with 300+ businesses in the last 18 months, I’ve noticed a trend – more a trap – most of these companies fall into.

Radical transparency is a key factor in developing a high-performing team, and it starts with you, the leader. It's about identifying your expectations and how you want the team to work together.

Creating a radically transparent team is within your control as a leader.

Most managers suck, and it’s not their fault.

Most managers suck, and it’s not their fault. When a business leader needs to fill a management role, the natural thought is to look at top performers.

Most leadership training programs are designed for ease of operational delivery within an organization, not for habit formation.

When done well, the performance review process will engage your employee, create more clarity and make your role as a leader easier in the long run.

Asking powerful questions is a key leadership habit that provides leaders with a means to mitigate their confirmation biases and dive deep into the evaluation of a situation, a person or their team as a whole.

One of the most common leadership mistakes is the failure to give critical feedback.

In my work with over five thousand leaders I've found there are four traits all powerful leaders have in common.

Here’s a list of the three discussions managers should have with their employees in order to help you take a strategic, long-term view on leading your people.

When people ask me, “Are millennials really that different?” I say yes, we are.

Stay interviews show your employees that you care and become a powerful reason for them to engage in their work.

How letting go of 15% of our team brought our team together

The myth that the millennial population is "lazy, entitled and wants everything right now” is false.

Welcome to the first installment of our newsletter- the purpose is to keep in touch and share the most relevant articles, podcasts and studies I find in my research on millennials, employee engagement, and leadership development.

Ultimately, successful organizations must acknowledge how the millennial generation IS different.

By aligning your actions and how you spend your 'People' dollars, you motivate your employees to be an integral part of the journey, not merely passengers on the train.

To attract and retain Millennials, companies will need to start thinking radically different about how they listen to, communicate with and develop their top talent.