FranklinCovey Blog

As we start the new year making plans, take time to reflect on your natural preferences and whether or not they are helping or hampering your goals for the next 12 months.

Take a break from the emotional fatigue caused by uncertainty and be validated for a moment—it is okay, normal even, to feel exhausted.

Understand your motive to master your communication style and build a brand as someone who makes things easier—not harder.

You don’t need to spend a lot of money to be memorable. You just need to deploy your creative skills, innovate, and care.

How you show up reflects who you are and what you think of others. How are you showing up?

What’s your identity and what precise behaviors could you employ, beginning today, to make your future truth become a reality?

Life seems to be returning to normal for many—and for many, it's a new normal that leans heavily on a virtual presence. Here are my top tips and reminders about getting your digital game in order.

In case you missed it – your key contribution as a leader is to recruit and retain talent. Mission, vision, and values? Important. Systems, structures, and strategy. Also important.

Imagine for a moment how difficult it would be to create an identity independent of someone many could consider the most famous person in the world.

After reading more than 1,500 leadership books, several have become my favorites. What they all have in common is their applicability, at least to me in my life at the time of reading them.

Managing risk often requires us to be futurists but, how much of the risk in our lives are we focused on avoiding when that time might be better invested elsewhere?

“No involvement, no commitment” is one of the many wise adages left with us as part of Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s legacy. This short phrase should serve as a metaphorical Jiminy Cricket to every leader.

Every company is in the same business, the people business. What are you doing to ensure all of your systems, processes, strategies, and ongoing focus is about an obsession with people?

These seven practices can transform your brand and level of trustworthiness with others in quick order. Commit to one a day for the next week and see what happens to your relationships.