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Leadership Caffeine™: Teach Your Team Smart(er) Decision Processes

Nothing happens without a decision. Nothing good happens without the right decision. And, in case you doubt the need to focus on making better decisions, spend some time skimming the news. If you’ve kept up with your health and fitness resolutions thus far this year, you know that even minor adjustments in diet and exercise pay big dividends. The same goes for our individual and group decision-making approaches. Here are 5 key questions and suggestions for strengthening your team's decision-making processes.

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:32-05:00February 6th, 2012|Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|2 Comments

Art’s Weekly Leadership Message: Step Up to Cure Effective Dialogue Deficit Disorder

The medical community and drug companies have their ED malady and cure, but too many management and project teams suffer from their own form of ED…with two more D’s…EDDD… Effective Dialogue Deficit Disorder. It’s not that people aren’t talking. There’s no deficit of hot air swirling around most meeting rooms. The issue is all about the quality of the dialogue. Here are 5 ideas for you to use immediately in pursuit of stomping out Effective Dialogue Deficit Disorder:

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:35-05:00October 23rd, 2011|Uncategorized|7 Comments

Leadership Caffeine™: Frame Carefully to Improve Discussion Quality

Decisions propel people, teams and organizations forward. Get more right than wrong…especially the big ones, and the only thing standing in the way of success is the critical issue of execution. And of course, most decisions start with a discussion. One of your important jobs as a leader is to ensure that your team is [...]

By Art Petty|2016-10-22T17:11:37-05:00July 25th, 2011|Decision-Making, Leadership, Leadership Caffeine|6 Comments

Management Excellence Toolkit: Better Design for Workplace Discussions

Getting to a good decision on big issues is challenging. Navigating the discussions leading up to a decision however, often resembles something on the difficulty of slogging through the Amazonian jungles in search of a mythical lost city made of gold. If you survive the process, you are bound to come out a very different person. It doesn’t have to be so hard.

By Art Petty|2017-12-08T07:54:33-06:00May 23rd, 2011|Challenging Conversations, Decision-Making, Project Management|0 Comments