Better Than Normal | The Vulnerable New Days
This is the third installment in a series titled “Better Than Normal – Designing Transformative Experiences,” which will provide tools to help you position your employee and customer experience for relevance in a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 world. I love thinking I’m invincible – look at me who’d want to go toe-to-toe with me? Then again, when…
Better Than Normal | The Purposeful New Days
This is the second installment in a series titled “Better Than Normal – Designing Transformative Experiences,” which will provide tools to help you position your employee and customer experience for relevance in a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 world. To be honest, I have been busier than I’ve ever been before during the pandemic, but in those rare…
Better Than Normal – The Good New Days
This is the first installment in a series titled “Better Than Normal – Designing Transformative Experiences,” which will provide tools to help you position your employee and customer experience for relevance in a COVID-19 and post-COVID-19 world. I don’t know about you, but I am already eager to put the phrase “new normal” out to pasture!…
It’s Emotional – Listen to the Feelings Behind the Words
Thank you for joining me on this third installment in my series “It’s Emotional – Creating an Unprecedented Team and Customer Experience in the Pandemic.” This series is designed to offer tools to manage your emotions as well as support the emotional journey of your prospects and customers. A couple of installments back I talked about…
Leadership is NOT Waiting to Follow – Be Thoughtful, Proactive, Humble, and Courageous
As I start this blog, let’s take a collective breath. No really let’s pull the air in through our diaphragm, fill-up the lower lobes of our lungs, and continue that process into the upper lobes. Now let’s be thankful that we can! Ok, on to lessons from the most challenging week of my career (and…
VUCA, Coronavirus, and Tools for Human Experience Leadership [Infographic]
For years now, I have been equating leadership with managing in a VUCA world. During my work on training development at Mercedes-Benz, the company established a cadence of leadership training modules that focused on managing volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity by first leading oneself, then leading teams, and finally leading the organization. If my team…
VUCA, Coronavirus, and Tools for Human Experience Leadership
For years now, I have been equating leadership with managing in a VUCA world. While the acronym VUCA has origins in Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus’ 1985 book titled Leaders – The Strategies for Taking Charge, the first use of the acronym occurred a couple of years later in Army War College documents. As you likely…
Listening and Leading Customer Experience in Uncertain Times [Infographic]
I’m in the throes of difficult planning sessions with clients as they seek to communicate with and ready themselves to care for their team members and customers in a time of heightened uncertainty associated with the coronavirus. For some clients, these conversations revolve around possible disruptions in a supply chain; for others, it takes the…
Listening and Leading Customer Experience in Uncertain Times
I’m in the throes of difficult planning sessions with clients as they seek to communicate with and ready themselves to care for their team members and customers in a time of heightened uncertainty associated with the coronavirus. For some clients, these conversations revolve around possible disruptions in a supply chain; for others, it takes the…