As an executive, your team creates all kinds of reports, spread sheets and slides…
… to plan, run, measure, and report on what you are doing in your operation.
While you need these detailed materials to run your function, please don’t inflict them on others! Read More
The school “report”I remember in grade school getting an assignment to do a “report” on a topic or a book. Part of the assignment was always the length.
“Make sure it’s two pages single spaced”.
Kids would struggle to make it long enough, using extra large margins, leaving a big gap under the title, and/or by writing really big. Read More
Being the smartest one in the room is not easy. 
Really smart people who get to the answer before everyone else get frustrated because:
As much as you’d like to believe that good work should stand on it’s own, it doesn’t.
Building credibility and trust is essential.
But you can’t have credibility if you are invisible.
You also can’t have credibility if you are annoying! Read More
Sometimes even when people agree, they can’t communicate with each other.
I’ve seen this common problem play out with bosses and employees when they are both really smart, capable people, but they just don’t get each other — they drive each other crazy. Read More
Corporate crap is all that extra, low-value work and random pressures that interfere with delivering on your job…
It’s the stuff that drains your time and energy, and annoys you a lot…
It’s the stuff that makes you feel like you are not controlling your own destiny. Read More
On one of my recent coaching hour conference calls with Azzarello Group members, someone asked me,
“What things do you when you start a job so you make sure to get off on the best possible footing?” Read More
Sometimes you find yourself in a situation where your gifts and skills don’t line up with the type of skills that are valued in your environment.
You might get shut out or pushed down because of it. Read More
1. It gives you more confidence and energy in your work.
2. You consistently position and sell yourself better
3. You get a professional advantage
BUILD YOUR PERSONAL BRAND VALUE
In this month’s business leadership webinar we covered how to translate your personal brand into value that other recognize. Read More
One of the CEO’s I am working with on a business transformation said to me about his managers,
“No, he won’t actually help solve the problem, he is more of a reporter.”
Ouch!
Think about your behaviors. Read More
