Leadership Lesson: How you sit back, look for and see the process of leadership and how it unrolls from within you, is important to understanding your path of leadership – tracing it from the internal to the external — and the way you live it, demonstrate it, and carry it out.
I recently…
Leadership Lesson: In the right fashion, and when appropriate for the environment, a leader should always make sure people are self-aware, and improving and refining their tactics, even in the moments following a great win or success.
As much as I love and watch soccer and, much more, live for the high-stakes championship games,
Leadership Lesson: Hands down, teachers were our very first leadership coaches, pushing us to be curious about the world around us, keeping us accountable to what they knew we could deliver, and trying to make sure the lessons they shared stuck long after the partnership ended.
Leadership Lesson: Hands down, teachers were our very first leadership coaches, pushing us to be curious about the world around us, keeping us accountable to what they knew we could deliver, and trying to make sure the lessons they shared stuck long after the partnership ended.
Recently, I came across a LinkedIn post in which one of my connections, a school…
Leadership Lesson: Here are some considerations to keep in mind as we move forward into the new year, so we can each keep assessing — and evolving along — our own path of leadership and development.
Another year comes to an end. Another year of accomplishments, maybe some so-so’s, and probably some disappointments and letdowns….
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…
Leadership Lesson: You need to be your own disciplinarian if you’re going to break what comes naturally – complacency and comfort — to build forward.
How do you keep yourself in shape? How do you keep everything tight, strong, and flexed, so you are prepared and ready to push through obstacles and achieve what…
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…
Leadership Lesson: To ensure integrity in a lesson, those sharing the lesson should be closely watched to ensure they are living and operating within the parameters and standards they teach to and set for others.
Learning is important. That much is obvious, right? It’s at the core of what developing, creating, and growing in your life, workplace, and career…
Coaching is an interesting field because it demonstrates how much people don’t know about themselves. Many times, the solutions clients seek are within their reach in their environment, and it is during the coaching process that the client becomes aware of those very tools and how to refine them to serve themselves best.
There are countless…
So much goes into our leadership and development — in the present, for the future, and from the past.
Years of education and experiences combine to make up who and what we are today. It is up to us to take into consideration what is in our…
Uber CEO Travis Kalanick posted a “Profound Apology” on the company’s website to atone for or, at least, begin atoning for his behavior in a video which surfaced of him berating an Uber driver, while he was a fare in the man’s car, who had challenged him…
Leadership is powerful. It is gripping. It is influential. It is impactful.
But it can’t be any of those things unless it is harnessed and refined.
And leadership is not only about refining the best in oneself, but seeking out, and tapping into, the best in others.
Most often, an organization might overlook the leadership potential…
Leadership Lesson: Conversations are the fire-starters that get the effectiveness of leadership off the ground, tapping into the resources of the people in the environment, organization, and community.
Contrary to traditional — and misguided — belief, leading is not merely about coming into an environment, picking up the torch and pushing forward.
It is not merely serving as a talking head for all that…
It’s always been advised that one should never judge a book by a cover. Hand-in-hand with that advice is the understanding that we should not make assumptions about anything or anyone.
These pieces of advice have as much to do with leadership as they do with surveying one’s entire environment and keeping an open mind as one seeks…
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