Giving honestfeedback is volatile territory - especially to a boss.

Avoid 5 Career-Limiting Traps

How to recognize the pitfalls even great leaders stumble into.

Don't Over Use Strengths

There's a right time and place for each talent contribution - the right balance is essential for success.

Maximixe 4 Meta Talents

Discover the 4 talents every project needs to be successful.

Play Your Best Hand helps you maximize employee talents to achieve results. Focusing on talents helps you transform 'C' players into 'A' performers. You'll discover the joy of helping employees use their best skills to get things done.

Promote Strength Feedback

A powerful new approach to feedback

Top Tips from Winning Sports Teams

It's December and football is in the air. Many of you are gathering round the TV to watch the playoffs. Great team leaders have these strategies in common whether they're on the field or in the workplace.

Notice What's Right!

When we pay attention to something - it grows.

Stop Corporate Craziness

We go from meeting to meeting-scattered, barely attentive, leaving loose ends and confusion in our wake. There's never enough time.

Avoid 5 Career Mistakes

Become a Talent Scout!

Your job is to make employee talents visible so they can use themintentionally.

BRAG! Help Your Employees Shine

As a leader, you know it's important to align employee talents with business needs.

Deal with Performance Issues

Offeradvice and concrete actions the individual can take.

Develop Employees Strengths

In today's environment,leaders can help employees by making sure they are viable in the marketplace.

Discover Your Sweet Spot

How to Align your Talents with Pressing Business Needs.

Leaders -What Employees Really Want From You

Are your employees looking around for a new manager? Don't lose them by default. Discover what employees want and help them achieve it. Learn what motivates high performance and commitment.

5 Reasons to Build A Team

Investing in teamwork pays big dividends. Discover the 5 biggest reasons to create a winning team. Share these ideas and help employees see the value of teamwork and what's in it for them!

Accelerate Team Performance - Focus on Strengths

At work, you've probably noticed that your employees are great at some tasks, but not so great at the others.

Align Talents for Better Results

Every one on your team has unique talents.

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Benefit From Talent Differences

To succeed, we need to recognize talent differences and respect what each person brings to the table.

Do's and Don't's for a Dynamic Team

Do you want to build a dynamic, high performing team? Yet individuals are at odds with each other. One person is too critical, another overly cautious and everyone in the group has a'know-it-all attitude.' You wonder how you'll ever be able to build a high-performing team out of this rag-tag band.

Create a Nimble, High Performing Team

The recent near-disaster of Northwest flight 253 on Christmas Day is a chilling reminder of what happens when leadership and teamwork fail. Intelligence agencies had all the information to prevent this catastrophe, yet they failed to connect the dots. Learn how one leader avoided a crisis by building his team ahead of time...

Leaders Don't Walk Away From Conflict

Conflicts are tough. Just the thought of having a conflict with someone conjures up feelings of anxiety, frustration and memories of unresolved issues.

The ABC's of Successful Conflict Resolution

Offers tips on how to communicate and reduce conflict

Why Can't They Just Get Along?

Leaders — are you tossing and turning at night wondering what to do about an office conflict? How can you get two warring parties to work together?

The individuals may be high performers - but it's fireworks when they're on the same team. Here are helpful actions you can take.

Trust is a Critical Leadership Skill

In a study conducted by the U.S. Society for Human Resource Management in 2004, nearly 10% of employees said that the leaders in their organizations "are not at all trustworthy. " Around 20% believe that the organization's leadership is "only mildly trustworthy."

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Play Your Best Hand helps you maximize employee talents to achieve results. Focusing on talents helps you transform 'C' players into 'A' performers. You'll discover the joy of helping employees use their best skills to get things done.