Entries by Bill Prettyman

Great Leaders and Human Mistakes

We talk about great leadership often here on the blog. And there’s a reason we do that. Being a great leader isn’t easy. After all, even great leaders are only human, and as such have faults and weaknesses, as well as families, responsibilities, commitments, and other stressors outside of their work lives. Writing for HeartfeltLeadership.com, […]

Character: Three Ways To Build It

There is probably no more important leadership trait than character.  If you have it you can lead effectively, and people will follow. If you do not have it? You will have a much harder time convincing teams to respect and admire you, let alone follow you. Here are three ways that character is built and […]

Giving Credit Where Credit is Due

Harry Truman once said, “It is amazing what you can accomplish, if you don’t care who gets the credit.” And while there’s a lot of truth in that statement, the reality is, most people like to be recognized for the hard work they do. We’ve all faced experiences at one point or another in our […]

Six Fundamentals for Great Conversations

What is one of the biggest challenges each of us has in our lives? It is the ability to hear and be heard in a conversation. Done right, it can lead to great relationships and done poorly it can cause a relationship to blow up when you least expect it. Here are six fundamentals to enable […]