Instead of just "winging it" as you lead your team through its next project or change process, consider leading more deliberately.

Here is one of the biggest obstacles for leaders trying to build shared ownership on their teams for greater engagement and collective intelligence.

For an offsite to be successful, point B must be defined wisely, and point A accurately determined.

The goal is to always be able to answer the question, “what am I doing right now?”

There is so much we could learn from each other, if only we could say it. If you want to increase the ability in your organization for your people to share their valuable perspectives, there are three steps you can take starting today.

Leaders, if you're planning to do a values exercise with your team, you'll get the most accurate answer to the question "what are our values?" not by making a lofty list of what the team might value in a utopian workplace, but by looking at actual recent team behavior.

Establishing a new routine with your team can be tricky. They might wonder what you have under your sleeve when all you're trying to do is be a more conscientious leader.

How can take something that you'd like to accomplish on a regular basis and systematize it so that it's more likely to become established and integrated?

Cycles are part of the natural order of things. We can be in the groove when our work and rituals, and then we can feel out of sync. So sometimes, the solution to something not working is to simply enter into a new phase of the cycle.

Often people managers who got to where they are thanks to their technical proficiency have received little to no training on managing people. CHART is an acronym that will help new or untrained people managers understand what they need to know.