Laura writes. I’m interested in your new offering of an online immersion course. Right now we are in Thailand, so the times for the classes are pretty late for me. I checked the dates, and several after we leave Asia are on travel days, even more difficult. Normally I would say I should wait for the next semester. But I’m facing...

When you're coping you're not leading. In this video we summarize an hour-long webinar in five minutes. We could summarize it in three words: Leadership is Responsibility. (more…)

My own blunder offered a perfect opportunity to review this clear approach to owning and cleaning up one's relationship messes.     Share your apology tips in a comment.   Read The Responsibility Process in paperback or on Kindle or iBooks. Contact us to order in volume for your event, book club, or class.  Christopher Avery, "The Responsibility Process guy", founded The Leadership Gift™ Program to make world-class personal leadership development accessible to...

Accountability is the first tool of management. And, a billion-dollar consulting industry exists to teach organizations how to drive accountability into the organization. But I've noticed this: the more successful consultants and trainers are at driving accountability into your organization, the more personal responsibility goes down. Let's look at why that is the case: Accountability is the first tool of...

Accountability vs Responsibility. What is the relationship between these two important words? What do they mean? How do I get it right at work? (more…)

Christopher here: I'm pleased to welcome Alex Raymond, Founder and CEO of Kapta* as a guest blogger. Alex develops systems that promote personal responsibility and transparency at work. Now here's Alex... We’ve all heard the expression, “The right hand doesn’t know what the left hand is doing.” It’s a metaphor for internal disconnect and lack of communication. In a comedy...

Some people have a strong distaste for consensus. They say it takes too much time. They describe the painful details of the myriad ways in which group members polarize on issues and then threaten to use their veto power when they don't achieve their individual purposes. I find these processes distasteful myself. They take up too much time and can...

Can you believe it -- the holidays are here, again. The change of a calendar year can be a wonderful time to acknowledge the investment required to maintain growth and development, including the quality of your relationships at work. One of my favorite tools for team maintenance is the Reorientation Process. Assembling all the players for reorientation is a powerful...

[caption id="attachment_2841" align="alignright" width="150" caption="Click to see full size"][/caption] One of my clients for the Managed Leadership Gift Adoption program is generating fun and creative ways to promote the Leadership Gift throughout its organization -- and across functional and department lines into other units to spread the word. Here's a poster they are hanging up and distributing. It's connected to an event...

Nov. 9 Update -the poll is over, the link is gone. View some of the entries below. See the winner. We're hosting a contest at 99designs for the badge that will be used by accredited members of the Leadership Gift Program for leaders and their coaches. Already we've attracted some rocking submissions, and I expect there to be even more...