I often speak about the power of questions. I encourage and coach others to use them to more effectively, teach, mentor, and delegate. I enjoy a reputation with many colleagues and clients as someone who asks valuable...
Posts by Jeff Lesher
Research by the University of Scranton concluded that 92% of us making New Year’s resolutions will break them. While a more optimistic Covey study said only 77% of us will fail to follow through. Basically, as individuals, we’re...
Last week was far from my best. On the same morning I received an unexpected email from a client terminating our engagement, I got a text from my Mom letting me know one of my brothers was in the hospital. All while I was...
There’s an old expression about being “the cobbler’s children who have no shoes” that speaks to the very real tendency we can have as service providers to do better for others than we do for ourselves. For those of you under...
If you spend your day putting out fires, find the cause…you may be the fire hazard When I was a teenager, my family adopted the elderly dog of a family friend who no longer could care for her full time. We already had two cats...
A few years ago, I had so many requests from business leaders and owners to work with their teams to ‘teach them how to innovate’ that I wrote a template response called, “How to Get Out of Your Own Way” in which I positioned...
Getting to “No” – When to walk away from bad business Being in business—independently or as a part of a team responsible for making the cash register ring—we can be lulled into a belief that any paid engagement is a good one....
“Jeffrey, you’ll make someone a good wife someday…” That’s a direct quote from one of the owner’s of a natural foods store I worked at for over two years when I was in high school. They loved me there at Mother Nature’s...
In our approach to helping client organizations select the best people for them, we facilitate a job profiling process that we call “letting the job talk.” There’s a dimension to that approach that helps us create and utilize...
