I was working with a leader a while back and she wanted to create more collaborative meetings in her business. Her definition of success for these meetings was that people
I was working with a senior leader recently and they were complaining a bit as they sized up their calendar for the coming week. When I asked them to describe
One of the words I hear more and more these days as I work with leaders and business owners is “stress”. The challenges of leadership are always significant, but now
Pretty often I get to work with leaders who feel like they should stop doing something that is getting in the way of their best leadership. They might want to
Leadership is overwhelmingly about the future. It’s the reason leaders even need to exist. If the future wasn’t important or couldn’t be changed, there would be no need for leaders
It’s that time of year again when people begin looking for a fresh start, a new approach and a slightly better version of ourselves. We use turning the calendar over
Somewhere close to 90% of New Year’s resolutions are abandoned before March ends. We humans don’t have a very good track record of doing the things we want to if
I have often heard leaders tell me that to get to the next level, or sometimes to get their business to the next level, they need to be more strategic.
If you look at many businesses, there is a critical component of success that can often be the thing that sets them apart from their competitors and from other businesses
Leadership isn’t about traits. Yes, you have to be a decent human to lead most of the time, and certainly to do it for any length of time. But beyond that, anyone can establish a set of processes and habits that serve them and the people they lead exceptionally well.
Most people don’t show up to do the wrong thing everyday, despite how it might feel some days. Most people are doing their best given the habits they have, the thoughts they have, the intentions they have, and the clarity they have.
Making our team dance to the beat of our insecurities, impulses, habits and needs is one of the quickest ways to cause them to want to work for someone else instead, and to spend more of their time telling friends and others what a terrible leader we are.
Leadership, in any setting, is a constant, almost never-ending battle it seems between what is in the person’s best interest and what we feel like doing in the moment.
Learning as a leader is essential to our continuous improvement. For most of us, one of the real drivers of why we want to lead in the first place is because we get a bigger chance to help others as part of how we spend our life.
If I could work with a team as a manager and along the way I could improve their performance, their capability, and their engagement just by thinking and acting differently while I do my job, why would I settle for being a manager who just got his or her team to do the work?
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