Develop Your Capacity
As an organization development consultant and leadership coach for over thirty years, I’ve noticed many patterns that really great leaders share. Read on to gauge the extent to which you are incorporating these ideas and practices into your life and work as a leader. [Read more…] about Putting in the Work
At Capacity Group, we work often with top leadership teams to help them improve engagement, decision making, and overall team performance. While there are many aspects of teaming to consider and diagnose in order to determine how to elevate performance, one that stands out to us these days is around team energy.
[Read more…] about Team Vitality: A key need for today’s top teams
As we move into the new year, many of our clients report feeling some fatigue and ennui. Causes range from residual Covid impacts, tiring of the challenges in their work and lives, or they’re experiencing an overall lack of balance or motivation. Why does this matter? Certainly, for personal fulfillment, and because leaders set the tone within their organizations. Their energy creates ripple effects within their culture and environment. It follows that if leaders and top teams desire vibrancy within their organizations, they need to assess and manage their own energy. [Read more…] about New Year, New You?
Self-awareness about your style, values, preferences, and stress behaviors helps you make better choices about how to lead. In two recent blogs, Capacity Group shared how we use The Hogan Suite of Assessments to help teams connect, build trust, and accelerate performance. In this blog, we want to emphasize how these sessions generate important insights for the leader. I’ll share two examples that highlight powerful shifts leaders made as a result of investing in this work.
[Read more…] about Unintended Consequences of Your Leadership Style
Whether it is a new team, an existing team experiencing a change in structure, strategy, or context, or a team not working at its potential, investing energy to build trust, clarity, and align intent will accelerate team performance.
[Read more…] about Accelerating Team Performance: What’s the health of your top team?
Our last post discussed the energy drain and crisis many of us are experiencing, having survived the pandemic, and living in unstable times. In it, we talk about a few keys to energy, such as:
In this post, we share tips for refilling your tank so you can have the energy to lead your team and organization into the future. Taking care of yourself will help you be more caring towards others in your life, both at work and at home. In today’s dynamic and ambiguous environment, it is critical that leaders must have compassion!