Perry Holley

I didn’t understand this when I was in my first job out of college. I didn’t grasp it fully until I became a leader of people. What was this great learning? If you focus solely on results, you will be chasing the scoreboard with no accurate understanding of your success until it’s too late to do anything about it. You...

Do the people on your team know they have a future with your organization, or are they wondering where this all leads? For years I wondered if I had a future in the organization where I worked. My boss rarely spoke about career paths or promotional opportunities. Then I moved to another division and reported to a different senior leader....

Is your team as productive as you would like them to be?  Are the people on your team more productive because of your presence? What if you are not present? Does their level of productivity remain the same or better? Microsoft surveyed 20,000 people in 11 countries and found that 87% of employees report being productive at work. Yet only...

How do you handle challenging and trying times? When the workload is high, and everything seems uphill, do you lean in, buckle down, and raise your game? Or do you get stressed, maybe develop a bad attitude, and look for a way out? Challenging times affect us all a bit differently, but they don’t have to, especially if you take...

According to author and researcher Dr. Joseph Folkman[1], over 45% of leaders overestimate how much they are trusted. Furthermore, if you are perceived to have less trust with the people you work with, it can impact your overall effectiveness as a leader. People will question your integrity, your expertise, and your communication. TRUST TAX As Stephen M. R. Covey stated...

When it comes to people, your perspective matters. How you view people will determine how you interact with them. If you do not see value in people, they will not have value to you. And if you don’t believe they have value, you will not see their actual potential, nor will you genuinely invest in them. Potential is having the...