Manage Your Team — Increasing Leadership Influence & Employee Engagement with Perry Holley

5 Questions to Help Bridge the Intention/Perception Gap

As a leader, one of the fastest ways to increase influence with others is to improve how you communicate. More specifically, we need to improve how others perceive our communication.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyJune 30, 2020Leadership, influence, employee engagementComment

How Leaders Build Trust in Trying Times

Having a plan for moving forward while admitting you don’t have all the answers, is that combination of strength enough to depend on, and vulnerable enough to identify with, that develops trust.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyApril 22, 2020Leadership, influence, employee engagementComment

Perspective Matters, Especially for Leaders

We all have a perspective. As a leader, the question you need to ask yourself is if you are choosing your perspective or if your perspective is choosing you?

Culture Rescue: Moving From “Social Distancing” to “Socializing at a Distance”

Regardless of the individual responses to a “shelter in place” world, it is your responsibility as a leader to keep connections strong and make a way for your team to promote the culture and values you have fought so hard to instill.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyMarch 30, 2020Leadership, influence, employee engagementComment

4 Questions for Growth - If You're Proving, You're not Improving!

Here are four questions to help move your team from proving to improving so you can increase engagement and results.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyMarch 17, 2020Leadership, influence, employee engagementComment

Reader Question: What is an “Empathetic Communication Style,” and Why Does it Increase Engagement with Your Team?

The reason empathy is so helpful when it comes to engaging the people on your team is that it shows that you recognize that they have lives outside of work.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyMarch 2, 2020Leadership, influence, employee engagementComment

How are Insider/Outsider Dynamics Killing Engagement on Your Team?

Here are eight ways you can increase and sustain an insider-culture to increase the engagement of your team.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyFebruary 18, 2020Leadership, employee engagement Comment

The 5 Pillars of Meaningful Connection

High engagement leadership requires connection. When you can make connecting with others a priority, they will make engaging with you a priority.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyFebruary 11, 2020Leadership, personal leadershipComment

5 Leadership Myths of Leaders on the Fast Path

As I spoke with my client, I learned that she was embracing several myths that can become stumbling blocks to a leader on the fast-promotional path.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyFebruary 4, 2020Leadership, employee engagementComment

Increasing Engagement: Are You a FROM Leader or a FOR Leader?

John Maxwell commented that John Wooden wanted more FOR his players that he wanted FROM his players. Can you say that about the individuals on your team?

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyJanuary 28, 2020Leadership, employee engagementComment

8 Reasons Why the Feedback You Are Giving is NOT Helping

You may have the best intentions when you deliver feedback to your team, but the interpretation of the one receiving the feedback is really all that matters.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyJanuary 14, 2020Leadership, feedback, high performanceComment

If You Don’t Like Feedback, You’ll Like a Disengaged Team Even Less

For your team to be highly engaged and the people of your team to be personally motivated, they need to know that what they do matters and that they are making progress in their ability to do their job.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyJanuary 7, 2020Leadership, feedback, employee engagementComment

7 Ways to Make Your Team Better Because You are There

Is your team better because of you? Whether you are a member of the team or the leader of the team, you can use these 7 ways to develop your influence and take the team to the next level.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyDecember 9, 2019Leadership, influence, mindset, employee engagementComment

5 Questions Coaching Leaders Use to Teach Decision Making

Delegating the act of making decisions is the ultimate coaching-leader activity. Just like my parents coaching me on how to make the decisions instead of them, you need to be regularly working to develop the skill of decision making in the people on your team.

Manage Your TeamPerry HolleyNovember 26, 2019Leadership, influence, high performanceComment

Building a Winning Culture Through Standards & Expectations

Whether your team is at home or work, a culture will develop. The question is, will you (the leader) design the culture you want or default to the culture that appears.

Manage Your Team, Manage Your BusinessPerry HolleyNovember 12, 2019Leadership, Culture, employee engagement, excellenceComment

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