A recent Gallup Study on the State of the American Workplace stated that 70% of workers are not engaged at work.What is causing this and what can you do about it as a leader?Begin by looking for the mood and/or emotion of resignation in your work culture. Resignation shows up in individuals and orga ...

5 Clues Your Team Is Not Actually Present (Even Though You See Them) Recently I had the pleasure of sitting in an organization’s senior management team meeting. What struck me was that this was a meeting in name only; the managers were physically present but were mostly uninvolved in the p ...

The great thing about running a marathon is that you just have to finish the 26.2 miles and you are a marathoner. I am a marathoner, (notice I did not share my Personal Record time, remember, you just have to finish) and both the running of the marathon and the training for the marathon has been a g ...

Recently I was facilitating a leadership program for a large organization and one of the participants was a newly hired employee whose father worked at the company. When I spoke with both dad and daughter at different times, they were both extremely excited that she was now working at the company. ...

Cultivating Other Leaders and TeamsCommon is the leader who laments that his or her followers are not following. While they might believe that this lack of following is a follower issue, it is really a leader issue. Leaders in #Leadershi ...

Part 2 of a 2 part series.“If you don't have trust inside your company, then you can't transfer it to your customers.” - Roger Staubach, Real Estate Entrepreneur and Hall of Fame QuarterbackIn part 1 of this series on trust (http://croftandcompany.com/trust-good-absolutely-everythi ...