Category: To The Bosses

In Working With Others, How Do You Challenge Them To Make Them Better?

November 2, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Although leadership is about working to eliminate and minimize environmental, developmental, and mission-related obstacles, making someone or something better in the course of that work, it can’t be fully effective without challenging those who are led.

The leadership of yesteryear – coordinating people to carry out cookie-cutter, repetitive tasks that benefit a mission or organization – is long gone.

Even though most workplaces have evolved past that type of work and mentality, as time goes on, there…

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What Do You Lose By Not Sorting Through Environmental Noise?

July 28, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: It’s always important to step in and help others see each other’s points of view, so that everyone can work toward the common goal.

There is so much noise in our environments. Whether this noise is reflected in the inability to communicate, the wrong fashion of communicating, or allowing too much emotion into our communication, nothing moves forward and everything becomes vulnerable…

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The Leader’s Responsibility: Don’t Lose Sight Of Those Who Depend On Your Leadership

July 13, 2018By CiOIn To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: It’s important to keep track of what others need, following up accordingly to make sure they are getting the ongoing tools, support, and trust they need to make progress, improve performance, and overcome challenges.

How do you keep your ear to the ground as a leader?

As you make your way through your environments, how do you ensure that you remember the things that are pertinent and…

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Your Leadership Wake: In The End, What Would Happen If You Were To Leave Tomorrow?

June 8, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Always keep the future – the mid-term and long-term — in mind, and consider what things would look like and how well they would work after you’re gone.

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It outlined…

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Leadership Can Be Lonely: How Do You Really Step Outside Of Yourself To Connect?

May 18, 2018By CiOIn Article, General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Loneliness is trending toward becoming an epidemic, but a similar, powerful emptiness — an unfulfilled and psychological need – can also exist in leadership.

Loneliness can rob us of our best lives, in which we could get to know others on a deeper level and utilize and develop our greatest abilities. At the same time, it robs others of the opportunity to know us and realize,…

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Mentorships Are The Connections That Bring All The Pieces Together

May 11, 2018By CiOIn In The Middle, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Don’t forgo any part of your personal efficiency and strength, or that of your team or organization, by ignoring the importance of mentorship.

Mentoring is a powerful tool and experience.  Both the mentor and the mentee can gain from the relationship, with each side walking away more refined and better prepared for having partaken in, and extracted advantages from, the relationship.

In…

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In Your Leadership: How Do You Help Others Articulate Their Ideas? Part 2

April 20, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Continued From Part 1

Leadership Lesson: How do you use the questions here to help bring out what other people are thinking and what they can contribute?

Ideas may exist in people who surround you, untapped, ready for the taking.

They can be harnessed from knowledge others are holding onto while they flesh out the details, knowledge they may not even be aware they hold, or…

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In Your Leadership: How Do You Help Others Articulate Their Ideas? Part 1

April 13, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Be able to understand how and what it is you can draw out of other people in the form of ideas and contributions.

One of the top markers of effective leadership is the ability to harness the resources at one’s disposal. That can mean anything from the physical resources of machinery, warehouses, and factories, to the physical work of individuals and teams in companies, to the…

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Your Leadership Wake: How Do You Guide And Support Others?

March 23, 2018By CiOIn To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Leadership is about building others, engaging their best, and challenging them toward their best, to build toward a common goal.

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It outlined how a leader — or anyone, for that matter — can create and leave…

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Your Leadership Wake: How Do You Listen to Others?

February 23, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: You can’t lead if you don’t listen to your people or your environment. They see and know what you don’t. Get in the habit of listening.

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It outlined how a leader…

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Your Leadership Wake: How Do You Speak to Others?

January 19, 2018By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: How a leader speaks to others sets the tone for the environment and creates a ripple effect in how those around them speak to each other.

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It outlined how…

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Keep In Mind: You Have To Earn Your Official Leadership Position…Twice

January 5, 2018By CiOIn To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: Earning respect in leadership is an ongoing exercise in which there is no room for complacency in one’s performance, no matter what position or level is achieved.

You need to keep earning your stripes.

Leadership doesn’t have to be designated or official to be effective, but in the cases where official positions are being discussed, leadership has to be earned twice –…

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Your Leadership Wake: As A Leader, How Do You Acknowledge Others?

December 22, 2017By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

Leadership Lesson: How you acknowledge others allows them to feel heard and like a part of the mission, while setting the example for how others serve, work and interact with others.

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It…

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How Does Your Role As The Leader Make The Case For Your Organization or Mission?

November 24, 2017By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

How do others outside of your organization view you? Not your leadership, not your organization, not your workforce. YOU.

Leadership, for the most part, takes into consideration what happens within an organization – how the organization and its mission are driven, influenced, and shaped by its leader.

The organization already should have its ongoing reputation established, staking its claim in its industry.

The workforce should be known for its commitment to quality…

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Your Leadership Wake: As A Leader, How Do You Share Your Opinion?

November 17, 2017By CiOIn General Leadership, To The BossesNo Comment

This previous post had broken down the power and influence of leadership impact and introduced this series of posts covering where the wake from a leader’s actions can be observed and felt.

It outlined how a leader — or anyone, for that matter — can create and leave behind a positive, exhausting, or neutral experience for those around them, based…

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