One of the biggest leadership traps is believing that progress requires consensus. But the challenge isn't getting everyone to think alike. It's learning how to communicate, make decisions, and build momentum when they don't. Here are three mindsets that will help you approach this conundrum with more ease and success.

When we hear the word planning, we usually think of solutions, timelines, and next steps. But what about the pre-work? If you want to build a foundation for real change, I recommend having three important conversations at the leadership level before your full-team gathering. Learn about them here, and get access to a list of questions you can borrow for your own conversations.

Between holidays, vacations, and general year-end fatigue, the window between Thanksgiving and New Year’s can turn into a murky holding pattern. But it’s only October, which means there’s time to get ahead of this potential pitfall! Here are 5 leadership moves you can make right now to align your team before the end of the year.

The best leaders are more focused on asking questions than leading with answers. In this article, I’ll share some researched-backed evidence for this mindset, along with practical, facilitator-approved advice for asking better questions and leading with inquiry.

Whether you’ve been facilitating for a while, or are just dipping your toe in, these 5 superpowers will help elevate your ability to successfully guide people through the winding road of decision making, ideation, and problem solving, all in the spirit of helping them do their best work.

What does it take to stitch an innovation mindset into the very way teams operate? This article is about shifting our perspective on when to workshop and makes the case for cultivating a workshop practice within organizational culture as a necessary stepping stone to building a culture of innovation.

Small and fractional teams need to collaborate differently than their counterparts in order to be effective. In this article, I share the secret to setting your teams up to do their best work and build momentum, along with an exercise you can replicate with your own team to unify the group.

If you’re a leader kicking off a new project with your team, or ideating on a new product your company could launch, it’s essential to be intentional about how you plan for and guide collaborative sessions to make them a success. Apply these five facilitation learnings to your work to ramp up the effectiveness of your collaborative sessions, and have a more powerful impact on the teams you lead.

Design Sprints have the incredible ability to unlock the full potential of a team’s creativity and push innovation to new heights – that’s why they’re such a powerful leadership tool. After nearly eight years of facilitating Design Sprints, I can confidently say they’re just as effective now as they ever were. If you’re having a hard time getting over the commitment hump, here are 5 reasons why you really can’t afford not to Sprint with your team.

Did you know there’s actual science behind the power of self-affirmations? Also called mantras, the practice of repeating an affirming word, sound or phrase is enough to help us feel more positive, cope with perceived threats, and become happier. I think this concept can sometimes feel silly or self-indulgent, but the truth is that it's effective! When we believe in ourselves we do better work, and that’s particularly important if you regularly guide groups who depend on your energy, direction and knowhow.

Have you ever been in a meeting with a bunch of people and felt like everyone is holding back? You hear people making statements, but the statements have no soul. Their bodies are in the room, but they are not authentically present. As a result, you end up with a bunch of stale, careful statements about what someone thinks someone else wants to hear. Here are a few tips to avoid these scenarios and be your most authentic self at work.