Leadership is a Conversation — Feb 20 PEN Webinar

Amazingly, 68% of leaders are afraid to communicate to their teams. And, since so much of our leadership spans from our staff and employees to our customers and stakeholders, we as leaders are required to be skillful at ensuring people love working in our communities. The Performance Excellence Network — in partnership with the Wisconsin Center [...]

2025-01-28T09:25:28-06:00January 28, 2025|

Unlocking the Power of Employee Engagement — Feb 6 PEN Webinar

Sustained organizational success requires having an engaged workforce that benefits from meaningful work, clear organizational direction, the opportunity to learn, and accountability for performance.  The simple truth is: engaged workers leads to satisfied, engaged customers.  But today -- with work environments continuing to evolve and employees' needs and expectations shifting -- how do organizations stimulate [...]

2025-01-14T12:45:04-06:00January 13, 2025|

Leading with Love: Insights on Leadership and on Life — December 2024

It’s not often I use this column to write a “book report,” but I was recently made aware that one of our members -- Connie Delaney, Dean at the University of Minnesota’s School of Nursing -- wrote a book on leadership: Leading with Love.  I thought I’d just skim it (I have probably 30 books [...]

2024-12-18T14:03:44-06:00December 18, 2024|

The Best Leaders are Yet to Come — Jan 23 PEN Webinar

The Baldrige community has something that no other leadership community has: established, proven leaders who have national role-model organizations to become honored performance excellence and results-driven, Baldrige Award recipients.  But what is it about them that separates those leaders from most other leaders?  What predictive analytics can we use to "know them when we see [...]

2025-01-02T13:25:44-06:00December 16, 2024|

Improving Leadership in 2025: Exploring Two Coaching Tools — Dec 12 PEN Webinar

In today's fast paced environment, there are too many professional conversations taking place that are not intentional about getting better or are not focused on leadership development.  But, as we wind down the year and look to next year, there are ways to address this issue and improve our leadership in 2025. The Performance Excellence [...]

2024-11-25T07:55:23-06:00November 21, 2024|

Exploring Life’s Priorities: Rocks, Pebbles, Sand & On Being a Time Billionaire — Nov 2024

During the COVID years, we were all given the opportunity to reflect on our mortality and on what’s truly important in life: our fast-paced daily routines came to an abrupt halt, allowing us to recalibrate -- to refocus on the priorities in each of our lives. But, while COVID isn’t over, most of us have [...]

2024-12-17T08:06:05-06:00November 19, 2024|

Reducing Stress, Preventing Burnout, Improving Performance — Nov 14 PEN Webinar

A recent Gallup study reveals that U.S. workers are among the most stressed in the world: 83% of U.S. workers suffer from work-related stress. And it’s impacting our work (stress costs businesses and the economy trillions of dollars in absenteeism, low productivity, and healthcare costs) and our health (stress contributes to 90% of all illness and disease). [...]

2024-11-04T09:22:02-06:00November 4, 2024|

Bridging the Partisan Divide in Our Organizations — September 2024

“The political landscape in the United States is highly polarized,” that being the opening line of a recent (August 22) Gallup study.  It probably won’t surprise any of you, but I would submit that we are more divided now than anytime since the 1960s (and before that, the 1860s).  The opening paragraph goes on to [...]

2024-09-23T13:01:47-05:00September 23, 2024|

Want Accountability? Start with Empathy — Nov 20 Online Workshop

There are many ways to achieve exceptional results at work, but one of the main things we need to do is build up our critical people skills.  And one of the best skills we can develop as leaders is the capacity to hold others accountable, while also expressing empathy -- holding ourselves and others to [...]

2024-11-13T19:02:31-06:00September 18, 2024|

Shark Tank: Exploring New Solutions for Old Challenges — Oct 3 PEN Webinar

As our environment continues to shift, we are all in search of new ideas, updated approaches, and best practices to get things done and to improve outcomes.  And oftentimes the best ideas come from our peers.  So… The Performance Excellence Network – in partnership with the Wisconsin Center for Performance Excellence and the Iowa Quality Center and in [...]

2024-10-01T17:29:23-05:00September 18, 2024|
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