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You’re No Steve Jobs, Be the Director of Emotional Safety®
Be the Director of Emotional Safety®. Hi, I’m Henry Evans, Managing Partner of Dynamic Results and as you know, I’m author of the bestselling book, “Winning with Accountability the Secret Language of High Performing Organizations”. When we’re out working in our client...
Step Up Teaches How to Act During Six Critical Leadership Moments
The new book, Step Up, shows readers how to step up to the plate during six critical leadership moments. Readers learn how to: Use anger intelligently in the workplace. Recognize and deal with terminal politeness. Make decisions when no one else is making them. Take...
Step Up, Moments That Matter – Leveraging Pessimism
Henry: Hi, I’m Henry Evans, Managing Partner at Dynamic Results. Colm: And I’m Dr. Colm Foster, Senior Associate at Dynamic Results. Henry and I are coauthors of the Amazon Top-10 “Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter.” You can follow me on Twitter @DrColmFoster....
Step Up, Moments That Matter – Learning From Experience
Hi, I’m Dr. Colm Foster, Senior Associate with Dynamic Results, and coauthor with my colleague, Henry Evans, of our book “Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter.” You can follow me on Twitter @DrColmFoster. In a recent blog, we spoke of our belief that leadership is...
Step Up, Moments That Matter – Director of ‘Emotional Safety®’
Hi, I’m Henry Evans, founder and Managing Partner of Dynamic Results, and I’m also coauthor of the book “Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter,” coauthored with my friend and colleague, Dr. Colm Foster. Did you know that Colm and I have given you a brand new title?...
State It Once: One Way to be the Leader in any Interaction
“State It Once” means you should, in a productive and constructive way, name a problem if a problem exists. This might be a problem with somebody’s behavior, it could also be a problem with a process. But, it’s never good to just leave it alone and not mention it. By...
Six Moments That Can Make A Leader Out Of Anyone
It has often been remarked – including by this writer and in this space – that leaders are not just those people who find themselves in leadership positions. Just as captains of sports teams are not the only ones who make the decisions that can create the difference...
How to Show Leadership, Even If You Aren’t the Leader
Henry Evans is the co-author of “Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter,” which explores ways that you can demonstrate leadership regardless of your job title. Evans spoke about his leadership theories with Tom Fox, a guest writer for On Leadership and vice...
Shift Fast, Talk Slow
Michael ‘Dr. Woody’ Woodward and Henry Evans discuss how to shift fast for results while making sure we meet people where they are.
Reversing the Polarity of Communications for Better Business Results
We believe that you drive results through accountability by investing in the right people, at the right times. Who are the 5 to 7 most important people in your work life? Who are the people who have the most impact on you in your career? These may not be the people...
Retaining Talent with Emotional Safety®
Bev Kaye and Henry Evans are best-selling authors willing to share unguarded hints on how to keep your best people (even these days!!!). Tags: Emotional Safety®, leadership development
Reframing For Better Business Results
We often offer ideas about how you can drive better business results through our accountability method, and today we want to focus on: How you can reframe your thought cycle when you’re going to a meeting. Everyone knows that many meetings suck. Having observed...
Reflection – How To Focus Your Mind for Better Business Results
In our book, we talk about the importance of reflection-it’s a key element of your leadership development, and we want to say a little bit more about that now. When we talk to our clients about reflection, many of them push back, saying things like, “I’m already too...
Reflection: Creating Accountability With Emotional Intelligence
This video is about one aspect of our Accountability Method we call Reflection. When trying to convey an idea, reflection is a technique for getting back a comment about how your audience understood your message. Effective communication is measured by what people...
Prioritization Filter – How to get real about your ‘to do’ list
Over the years, I’ve amassed more than 10,000 hours of coaching CEO’s and others in the c-suite. During that time, I’ve learned and also developed practices to make high performing leaders, perform at even higher levels. Today, we’re sharing a process we published in...
Physical Safety Does Not Equal Emotional Safety® – Pt 1
Dr. Leo Flanagan and Henry Evans discuss how “returning to the office” is not going back to what used to be, and NOT simply a “new normal”. We need to be deliberate in taking care of each other – creating Emotional Safety® plays a big part! Tags: Emotional Safety®,...
Physical Safety Does Not Equal Emotional Safety® – Pt 2
Dr. Leo Flanagan and Henry Evans continue the discussion on how “returning to the office” is not going back to what used to be, and NOT simply a “new normal”. They also tackle some of your most pressing questions.
Pessimists Aren’t All That Bad
Most of us know that pessimists can be a challenge to deal with in the workplace. As a leader you need to manage pessimists by coaching them to see other options and helping them to reflect on the impact they have on those around them. While pessimists can be a...
Permissive Approach
3 ways to engage difficult people and build collaboration. Think of a discussion that you know is important to have and that you have been avoiding. Perhaps you have given up on it because you don’t feel listened to. Maybe you are not addressing the issue because, in...
Passive Endorsements™ – A Deadly Silence
Today I’ll discuss the tendency we sometimes have to avoid challenging conversations. An industrial psychologist in our firm has an interesting take on this issue: He says there are two kinds of people: Those who know they may be avoiding difficult conversations and...
Office Anger: How to Win People Over by Losing Your Temper
If you want to get angry at work, it’s better to be a man. Sexist though this sounds, it’s a finding from a recently published study conducted by psychologists at Arizona State University. Women, it seems, may have been right all along about stereotyping. An angry man...
Mastering Empathy in 3 Easy Steps: Building Better Relationships and Business Results through Managing Conflict
Let’s see if we can sharpen your empathy skills in 4 minutes or less. Empathy, simply put, is expressing your understanding of how another person feels, leaving them feeling understood and heard. This is easy to do when you share their concern or care about their...
Map Your Mood
Dr. David Caruso and Henry Evans talk moods and matching the task at hand to the mood you (or your team) are in.
Managing Your Emotions
In our Amazon Top-10 Business book, Step Up–Lead in Six Moments That Matter, we have a chapter called Get Angry, Not Stupid and we also have a previous blog with the same name. The idea is that it’s okay to feel and express feelings like anger or frustration, even at...
Making Decisions When Outcomes are Uncertain
Hi, I’m Dr. Colm Foster, Senior Associate at Dynamic Results, and with my colleague, Henry Evans, coauthor of “Step Up: Lead in Six Moments that Matter.” You can follow my current ideas by following me on Twitter, @DrColmFoster. Sometimes we see our clients, with or...
Leading With Accountability
Irish Director / Ireland The higher you go on the organisational chart the more responsibility you have and the less accountability you may have. Leadership expert Henry Evans suggests some self-generated accountability might be in order. Henry Evans has been working...
Leadership in Balance
Hi, I’m Dr. Colm Foster, Senior Associate at Dynamic Results, and with my colleague Henry Evans, I co-authored Step Up, Lead In Six Moments That Matter. You can stay current with my ideas by following me on Twitter at @DrColmFoster. When working with our clients to...
Leaders Radiate Competence, Shine In Tough Moments
Everyone faces dilemmas at work. Adept execs turn quandaries into accomplishments. How they proceed: Lengthen the fuse. We all work with difficult colleagues, and “We’re conditioned to react,” said Judith Orloff, author of The Ecstasy of Surrender: 12 Surprising Ways...
Keynote Highlights: Accountability as a Competitive Advantage: Driving Results Without Being a Jerk
Henry Evans, our Managing Partner and author of “Winning With Accountability, The Secret Language of High Performing Organizations” on the keynote circuit. Please click on the link above for our promotional video. With the global success of our best-selling book...
How You Are Feeling Impacts Your Results
By Colm Foster – Senior Associate, Ireland Spock: “It’s just not logical, Captain.”Kirk: “As humans…we can’t just ignore our feelings, Mr.Spock.” This exchange between Kirk and Spock illustrates an age-old dilemma. Spock believes that emotions and feelings are always...
Henry Evans Shares Corporate Experience with SMU Cox Students
For immediate release Henry Evans Shares Corporate Experience with SMU Cox Students Dallas, TX/USA – March 11, 2014Henry Evans, Co-founder and Managing Partner of Dynamic Results, LLC, presented a seminar titled Accountability Principles for Dynamic Results on Monday,...
Henry Evans and Colm Foster on Experiential Learning
According to Henry Evans and Colm Foster, “Learning a skill is very different from studying for a test or learning how to program a spreadsheet; it is experiential. That kind of learning primarily involves practice; to change your behavior, you must actively engage in...
Why Great Leaders Get Angry–and Show It
Think about remarkably successful entrepreneurs. They’re logical. They’re rational. In the face of crisis or danger or even gross incompetence, they remain steely-eyed, focused, and on point. They don’t get angry–or at the very least they don’t show their anger....
Go First – The Secret Sauce Of Gaining A Competitive Advantage
Go first. That was one of the mantras I learned from my coaches when I was a competitive martial artist. Whatever your current position, leader, individual contributor, employed or not – you are in a constant state of competition. You compete against other...
Give Heat Like a Boss — and Take It Like a Champ
Handled poorly, criticism at the office can spur lasting tension and grudges. “But if it’s handled right, negative feedback is a gift,” says Henry Evans, co-author of Step Up: Lead in Six Moments That Matter. Sometimes you have to dole out the pain, and sometimes you...
Get Angry, Not Stupid™; How to Leverage Your Emotions for Better Results
Anger is one of the most powerful and feared emotions anywhere, but certainly in the workplace. As long-time assessors of emotional intelligence, Colm and I have always encouraged our clients to eliminate and suppress any form of afflictive emotions in meetings....
Generating Teamwork When People Have Differences
A robust and rapid-fire discussion on how to Feel, Talk and Act when people have differences. Hosted by Bonnie St. John and Henry Evans.
From Confusion To Clarity
From Confusion To Clarity – A Framework For Driving Results Colin Hunter, author of ''Be More Wrong – How failure makes you an outstanding leader'' and Henry Evans, author of the best-selling ''Winning With Accountability – The Secret Language Of High Performing...
Free Resources for Building Accountability in your Culture
By Henry Evans Back by popular demand, we offer you some helpful hints about Creating High Accountability Cultures in your organization.This video has some ideas around how you can bea model of accountability in your organization.Enjoy, and as always, see how people...
Five Ways to Leverage (and Love) Your Pessimists
Hi, my name is Henry Evans. I’m a five time CEO, global consultant, and a recovering optimist. Life was going really well for me. My father practiced meditation every day (82, and still practicing). Through his example and those of my teachers and mentors I learned...
Eradicate Excuses at Work in Three Easy Steps
What’s Your Excuse? What are the three excuses you use most often? With more than 10,000 hours of executive coaching experience, my observation is that everyone, even the highest performing people use excuses when they miss a deadline or break a promise. When we offer...
Entrepreneurs Shouldn’t Be Too Busy To Succeed
By Bob Irish Starting a company and nurturing its growth is as difficult as it is exhilarating. From the get-go, the entrepreneur is necessarily involved in everything. Consider just a short list of typical tasks: customers to identify, money to raise, employees to...
Why You Should Encourage Conflict
Conflict is necessary for change; just make sure your team is fighting for the right ideas. If you are not generating the right type of conflict, your organization may lack innovation. Many of today’s organizational leaders avoid conflict because they’ve been trained...
Emotional Safety®: Tell Me What I Don’t Want To Hear
There’s an old saying that what you don’t know can’t hurt you. I don’t know about you, but in my experience, nothing could be further from the truth. When I deliver keynotes to leaders explaining why Emotional Safety® is the key to making smart decisions, I point out...
Emotional Safety®: The Key to Making Smart Decisions
Informed people make the best decisions, and, as a result, add the most value to their organizations. Whatever job you have and whatever your level of authority, your people are relying on you to be informed about your function, no matter whether you’re CEO or packing...
Emotional Safety®: 3 Rules For Knowing When To Fight (At Work)
I was backstage about to give a speech to a large group of CLO’s who are seeking new ways to engage top talent while improving organizational performance…a difficult balance to achieve. I spoke about how to keep high performers happy, largely through giving them a...
Driving Results – Accountability As A Competitive Advantage™
Recently, we spoke to you about both the importance of creating clear visual expectations (a cornerstone of our accountability method) and making sure you get reflection back from your people. This ensures that you’re more focused on understanding what they heard,...
The Do’s and Don’ts of Receiving Feedback Like a Pro
Recently, I received the results from a 360 leadership feedback assessment. If you’ve participated in a 360 before, you’ll know that this means I, in an anonymous way, asked for feedback. It was aggregated and shared with me to increase self-awareness and for the...
Don’t Get Stupid, Use Your Anger for Good
It seems that Apple CEO Tim Cook is quite capable of getting angry without getting stupid, which is no small accomplishment. At a recent shareholder’s meeting, Cook was pressed by representatives of a conservative think tank, The National Center for Public Policy...
Consultant’s ‘Glossary of Failure’ gets Down to the Nitty Gritty
Dallas Morning News / USA When it comes to accountability, the devil is in the details. Be explicit in your communication or be prepared to disappoint or be disappointed. That’s the message from Henry Evans, who makes his living coaching executives. “People fail to...