Leaders who invest in strengthening their decision making muscles not only perform better themselves, but they also unlock higher performance across their teams.

Fundamentally, how does anyone know us as individual leaders and/or judge our leadership effectiveness? The first thing that might come to mind is your personality. Secondly, how you communicate: how ...

Every decision comes with an element of risk. It’s a fact that can paralyze a leader who overthinks in their effort to drive that risk to near zero before they act. It’s a common enough phenomenon to ...

Shanda O’Dennis is a learning and development associate at Friends Services Alliance, a 501(c)(3) organization that provides services to more than 115 nonprofit organizations in 16 states — ...

Effective decision making to avoid failures and maximize success is your key role as a leader: that’s why “decision-makers” is synonymous with leaders. Yet how can you ensure that your decision making ...

Cognitive neuroscientists estimate that at least 90 percent of the decisions we make are unconscious. We do what we do because of brain activity that comes from beyond our conscious awareness, fueled ...

Chances are, someone at some point has told you to “Follow your gut” or “Listen to your gut.” Maybe they asked, “What does your gut say?” For me, my gut tends to remain relatively quiet, and when it’s ...

This is definitely a year of tests for nonprofit leaders everywhere. Global economic uncertainty and political instability are making even the most mundane decisions feel challenging. In the past few ...

Teams can make any decision after seeking advice from affected parties and documenting it in an ADR. Use context maps to assign clear ownership of system areas to specific teams. Create architectural ...