Collaborative leadership is like Chinese checkers. Command and control leadership is like chess.
Collaborative leadership breaks down silos, increases engagement, and is more agile. Read this article to learn how to become a more collaborative leader.

The Claritas People OPEX™ framework is a People Operations strategy for continuous improvement. As the competition for talent becomes increasingly challenging, the importance of continuous improvement, retention, and building a measurable strategy around people operations is critical. Claritas can show you how to increase organization’s effectiveness by translating operational excellence principles to your People Operations.

Have you been managing people for a few years? Are you looking to progress in your career and wondering what to do next?

Would you like to know what the secret is to leadership development?

It is coaching. Find out what benefits you will gain from coaching and how to find the right leadership coach for you.

We live in a divisive world; it’s governed by the power of OR.

The larger and more complex the issue is that we are dealing with, the more important it becomes to shift to and AND mindset.

The power of AND is not a new concept, it goes as far back as the ancient Chinese concept of yin and yang.

Learn how to cultivate the power of AND to more effectively deal with the complexities related to Change, People, and Innovation.

What is the best coaching tool out there for managers? It’s Michael Bungay Stanier’s book, “The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever.”

If you are a manager, do you consider yourself a coach for your team? Have you received coaching before? Learn how to leverage your time and improve your team’s performance by developing your coaching skills.

More and more companies are seeing the business ROI of coaching and are equipping their managers with coaching skills and/or providing external coaching to their employees, not only their executives. The median ROI is 7x the investment (2009 ICF Global Coaching Study).

Would you like to learn the fundamentals of how to be a good manager in 3-4 hours plus a few minutes each day?

Managers are busy people! This will save you an extra 60 hours or so compared to reading all the books in “The Top 10 books for Managers” or similar other lists.

These 4 books are what make the shortlist: The One Minute Manager, The Coaching Habit, The Thin Book of Trust, and The Daily Drucker. Learn from the best to become the best at what you do!

Did you know there is a formula for achievement?

Angela Duckworth says effort counts twice. To clarity, this does not mean effort counts 2x but rather it is an exponential effect. As Angela explains, “Talent is how quickly your skills improve when you invest effort. Achievement is what happens when you take your acquired skills and use them.”

Read on to learn what we can do to improve the effectiveness of our efforts.

Adaptive efficiency is the ability to be both organized and flexible.

The paradox of adaptive efficiency is especially important for project managers.

Vigilant Resilience is important to sustain change. Leaders that have vigilant resilience display realistic optimism.

When challenges arise, as they will in most cases, leaders with vigilant resilience are the ones who will be able to rally their teams together to weather through the storm.

Did you know there was a formula for trust? And why does that even matter?

When we are talking about something intangible, like trust, it is helpful to understand what components build up trust and what can break it down. Otherwise, it becomes difficult to pinpoint what we need to do to nurture trust and what we need to avoid doing in order not to lose trust.

When leaders are not afraid to take risks and are also able to analyze pitfalls, they can lead with mindful courage.

This paradox is very important for leaders, especially in the early stages of a new venture.

This is part two of Excellence = Quality x Acceptance and we pick up where we left off last time.

In this article we will unpack three useful change management frameworks that help increase acceptance. The larger your project or initiative, the more important this becomes.

Change management is an important tool for leaders as well as project managers.

How do you think of outliers? They can be "bad" data points or potential goldmines. It depends on the situation. Read on to learn more.

Excellence = Quality x Acceptance
This is a useful framework to remember whenever you are about to start a major initiative or project.

What is your management style?
An effective manager is an effective coach. A manager’s coaching mindset is comprised of two pairs of traits: their ability to be enforcing and express warmth/empathy.

What are the two paradoxical traits related to communication? They are the ability to be frank as well as diplomatic, Harrison Assessments refers to this as respectful candor. When someone is able to be both frank and diplomatic, this is a true strength.

Contact Claritas Consulting & Coaching for a complimentary consultation if you or your team would like to develop this paradox.

Start keeping a time diary. You may be surprised with what you learn from this data!

• The Executive Time Use Project found that the average CEO spends 52 hours/week on work activities.

• Most research shows that productivity declines significantly after 50 hours work/week.

• People greatly over-estimate their time spent on work activities.

Marshall Goldsmith is one of the most respected executive coaches in the business world.

His argument is it is much easier to stop doing something negative and the impact of that is greater than trying to spend the same time and energy building up a skill that is not one of our strengths.

So how do we find out what it is we need to stop doing? That is where feedback comes in.