Michael Lee Stallard

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Hope Employees Will Return to the Office? Start Here.

Michael Lee Stallard

It gives employees a cognitive advantage, boosts employee engagement, tightens strategic alignment, improves the quality of decisions, increases the rate of innovation, and maximizes agility and adaptability. These six distinct advantages for groups add up to a powerful performance advantage.

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Protecting Employees from Covid-19 through Connection

Michael Lee Stallard

In addition, our research and the research of others has found that connection boosts employee engagement, increases strategic alignment, improves decision-making, increases innovation, and makes organizations more agile and adaptable. A culture with a high degree of connection is a win-win for individuals and the group as a whole.

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Preparing for Re-entry into the Physical Workplace: Lessons from NASA

Michael Lee Stallard

Teams and organizations with higher levels of connection have higher employee engagement, tighter strategic alignment, better decision making, higher rates of innovation, and greater agility and adaptability. These benefits add up to a powerful advantage.

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Leadership “Moment of Truth” for FC Barcelona’s Lionel Messi

Michael Lee Stallard

Lionel Messi needs to prove he is a leader who cares about the people he is responsible for leading and that he values relationship excellence in addition to skill, agility, and goal-making. Task excellence is but one part of the equation for sustainable superior performance.

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LeBron James vs. Stephen Curry: NBA’s David-Goliath Showdown

Michael Lee Stallard

Curry is a smaller, quick player with extraordinary agility and shooting accuracy, not unlike the shepherd boy who slew the giant. LeBron, at 6’8” and 250 pounds, is the best player in basketball. He is awesome to behold: smart, confident and dominant. Beyond David and Goliath.

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Connection at Home During Covid-19

Michael Lee Stallard

In a group that has a high degree of connection, you’ll find a cognitive advantage that makes people smarter and more creative, higher employee engagement,tighter strategic alignment, better decisions, a higher rate of innovation, and greater agility and adaptability to cope with faster changes taking place today.

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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

Admiral Clark’s description of who sailors are as members of the U.S.

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