5 Reasons our Leadership Planning Session Rocked
by. Matt Monge The exec team I’m privileged to work with had its strategic planning session over the past few days. Aside from fighting a stupid migraine both days, I thought it was a [...]
Posts Tagged ‘leader’
7 Leaders Who May Not Have or Need a Title
Credit unions and most other organizations want to find and develop leaders. At the same time, within many of those same credit unions and organizations there are people looking for leadership opportunities. There’s often [...]
18 Things Workplaces Need, More or Less
1. More collaboration. 2. Less “collaboration.” 3. More teams that trust each other based on a mutual humanness and vulnerability. 4. Fewer teams that think because they did a trust exercise this one time, they [...]
Leaders: Everything Means Something
by. Matt Monge There’s this weird little thing a few people have heard me say before. It’s a silly, awkwardly-constructed sentence, but it’s true nonetheless. Everything means something. Profound, yes? I think [...]
Credit Union Leaders That Inspire a Shared Vision
I've participated in my share of leadership development training courses during the past 28 years, and my favorite by far is The Leadership Challenge by Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner (http://www.leadershipchallenge.com/About-section-Our-Approach.[...]
6 Considerations for a Creative Culture
by. Matt Monge Yesterday we looked at a creative culture from an individual level, but today I want to zoom out and look at it from a broader, organizational level. What are some practical considerations [...]
4 Sorts of Folks That Make $*!* Happen
Organizations, products, services, and so on don’t just happen. I think sometimes we romanticize the process and make it into something it’s not. Other times, we make the mistake of thinking one part [...]
11 Reasons Workplace Fun isn’t of the Devil
Is a fun workplace really that big a deal? It’s a question I get all the time, and it’s a fair question. I’m an advocate for workplace happiness, both on human and [...]
8 Characteristics of Creative Leaders
by. Matt Monge I hate to outline things that may generally be true of what some would consider “creative” leaders, because I don’t want that to misconstrued as me positing that some humans are [...]
Rubber, Meet Road
by. Matt Monge In shocking news, culture is fascinating to me. OK. Unless this is your first time here, you know I’m being silly when I say that’s shocking news. And if it’[...]
4 Potentially Awkward Things Leaders Do
by. Matt Monge There are certain things that make sense to us. Other things? Not so much. Some stuff is just a little awkward, right? Some people’s working styles seem reasonable. Other folks? Not [...]
If You’re a Perfect Leader, You’re Not
by. Matt Monge Teams, groups, organizations, churches, clubs, families, homeschooling groups, etc, don’t need perfect leaders. They need real, human, vulnerable ones. They need leaders who have faults and talk openly about them. Faults, [...]
Leaders, Hymnals, and Perfect Posture
by. Matt Monge No matter how many times they explained it, it still just looked silly to me. Exasperated, they would finally give up, roll their eyes, and their faces would tell me that they [...]
7 Ways Transformational Leaders Are Different
by. Matt Monge Some leaders are…different. They have this certain something that resonates with us, and that certain something may be hard to describe and will likely vary from person to person. They’re [...]
7 Reasons Teams Can’t Just Get Over It
by. Matt Monge Yesterday we looked briefly at employees — humans — working through change, as well as the notion that they could “just get over it.” Here are a few of the reasons I’m just [...]