Posts in: high performance

May 5, 2016 Alexandra Wieland

Why If You’re Not Making an Impact, We Don’t Want to Be Friends Anymore

Oops, my eyes haven’t quite adjusted from the chair massage I just had. It’s Friday at 1:00pm and that’s right, my employer sponsored the opportunity for me to enjoy 15 minutes of relaxation in the middle of my workday. The...

May 5, 2016 Eric Stewart

Unhappy? Try This Gutsy Yet Simple Refocus

No matter what you think, and no matter how hard you wish it, no one is ever going to hand you the keys to your own chocolate factory. Yeah, no duh. But, for whatever reason, you still believe it’s going to happen. And by...

May 5, 2016 Jeff Lesher

“Oh, for God’s Sake!” – 4 Critical Indicators to Help You Come to Grips with the Fact It’s Time to Part Ways

Over the years, I’ve worked hard to provide good counsel to a myriad of smart, talented, and successful leaders. One of the areas of greatest consternation we’ve encountered together is getting the leader to come to grips with...

May 5, 2016 Jeff Lesher

When Life is an Illusion, Try This to Fight the [Damn] Shortcut Delusion

We’re only days into the New Year, which means we’re only a few days away from Resolution Failure Day. Then, it’s on to the Regretful Tuesday, Shoulder Shrug Sunday, and back to the same ol’, same ol’. That is, if we continue to...

May 5, 2016 Eric Stewart

The Single Most Important Factor for Your Long-Term Success

It’s 2016, so it’s pretty hard to plead ignorance to the importance of company culture at this point. Although, that’s exactly what a lot of companies still do today. They offer up excuses like, “I work in industry X, there’s no...

May 5, 2016 Andrew Freedman

How to Stop Treating Performance Reviews Like Deadly Killing Machines

Like the cartoon, most people don’t look forward to performance reviews. In fact, in the hundreds of companies we’ve studied, and the thousands of employees we’ve surveyed and with whom we’ve spoken, easily over 60% of them (the...

May 5, 2016 eQ Team

The Top 10 Moments We Hope We Made You Think in 2015

Every time we reach this point of the year it causes a lot of reflection. We ask ourselves: what did we love about the year we just completed and why? Was it a good year? What did we learn? We surveyed our team on the content...

May 5, 2016 Eric Stewart

How to Master This 3-Letter Ultimate Growth Strategy

Growth can be a little ambiguous these days, especially because it gets attached to all sorts of things: “personal growth,” “professional growth,” “mental growth,” physical growth,” … the list goes on and on. But what if there...

May 5, 2016 Alexandra Wieland

What to Bravely Do Next When Organizational Change Seems Impossible

Have you ever called someone and your intent was to help but clearly they weren’t looking for it? The call is your check-in and it starts out like, “Hey. How are you? What’s new? Last time we talked you were going through some...