by dveech | Dec 30, 2020 | coaching, corporate culture, employee engagement, goal setting, high speed problem solving, leadership, lean, learning, reflection, self-efficacy
After the new year, I’m planning to get back into the daily video business. I’ve been spending these past couple of weeks focused first on family, then on developing some new ideas.Neither of these are really new ideas, but I’m mustering up...
by dveech | Dec 8, 2020 | coaching, corporate culture, employee engagement, leadership, leadersights
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.Let’s take a quick look back at what happened on December 8 in history, then we’ll get into today’s topic – Cultures of ExcitementPerhaps the first crack in the glass ceiling occurred on this day in 1660...
by dveech | Nov 26, 2020 | corporate culture, employee engagement, leadership, leadersights
Hi, I’m David Veech and this is Elevate Your Performance.A few days ago I described a culture of defiance in organizations, and I ended up saying that a new leader would usually be necessary to pull the organization into a culture of compliance. It...
by dveech | Nov 22, 2020 | corporate culture, leadership
How do we find ourselves in a culture of defiance?Defiance is the open disregard or even contempt of something or someone.I’ve seen defiant cultures in several different organizations. In two cases, it was a Union workforce that defied any management...
by dveech | Oct 28, 2020 | C4 Process, coaching, confidence, employee engagement, leadership, leadersights, lean, learning, problem solving
Good morning!I love taking a look back through history as I prepare for these daily videos. Here’s what I found for today: • In 1636, Harvard College is founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts. • In 1793, Eli Whitney applied for a patent for his Cotton Gin, a device...
by dveech | Oct 25, 2020 | business travel, C4 Process, leadership, leadersights, learning, problem solving
Good morning.With travel this past week, I missed recording on Thursday and Friday. Saturday I have managed to skip for 3 weeks in a row. I still have in mind to do a travel related show on Saturdays to have some fun and to boost my travel agency a...
