Celebrating 10 years at the helm of Groove Management. My journey to living my dream of running Groove Management as my full time job.

Striking the right balance between praise and punishment with employees is a challenge for most leaders. The term to sharpen your carrots is Groove Management’s way of helping leaders to remember to strike the right balance.

There is a balance that must be achieved in an organization or else too much structure can turn organizational swim lanes into silos.

12 Human Resources terms that can improve your business results. Let your company’s vocabulary drive your culture and your business intentions.

My naughty list is comprised of people who are unresponsive. Responsiveness is a trait of successful leaders.

Erik Rydholm the executive producer and creator of Pardon the Interruption (PTI) shares the backstory on the visual agenda and how his time at the Motley Fool helped create one of ESPN’s longest running hit TV shows.

If you want employees to return to the office are you framing the ask properly? CNBC has been calling Wall Street CEOs Office Monsters. What if they referred to them as Culture Crusaders instead and focused on the positives? Would that change the dialogue?

Do you refer to your work team as a family? What are the pros and cons of doing so? How do scaling organizations maintain a soul? These are some of the questions explored in this blogpost.

Do you wear a mask for physical or psychological safety? Authentic leadership is about being genuine in your actions. Halloween and the idea of donning a costume to be someone you are not brings to mind the concept of authentic leadership. While it is fun to dress up for Halloween and wear a mask, I wonder how many of us really get to be our authentic selves at work? Do you have to wear a mask to work each day to fit in with your corporate culture or can you be your true self?

An investment in the team provides the greatest ROI for a small investment. Choosing how to spend limited resources to create the greatest leverage is the job of every business leader.

Turtles while know for being sure and steady make progress when they stick their necks out.

Two simple life hacks to reduce personal stress. CONTROL, ATL, DELETE and shutting down the background apps that are draining energy.

Executive coaching should model the changes expected of the coachee. By shifting to an unconventional venue, the coachee can feel liberated and begin to make the changes required to improve performance.

A greeting by a tech influencer warned me about the real threat of the Covid 19 virus back on January 7, 2020.

Making work from home work for your organization.

I am an early adopter of technology. However, I wanted longer that I usually do to embrace electric vehicle technology. In hindsight, I question what took me so long.

There is a big difference between team building and team bonding. Adam Cannavo highlights the difference and provides some advice for planning your next offsite.

Brian Formato shares one of the best failure stories ever. He’s the founder and principal at Groove Management, a human capital consulting firm focusing on organizational and talent development. He also created LeaderSurf, a professional development program that teaches leadership through surfing.

As a senior executive are you carrying too much of the burden for your organization on your shoulders?

In business we often talk about the iceberg theory and the fact that more lies beneath the surface, but to witness it firsthand and to take away new learnings in Iceland was even more impressive.