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.
What We Learn About Others
Through this third group of attributes,…
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 teacher, posted pictures of a letter he had received from a former student. In…
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. What we did in the year likely ran the gamut from happiness-inducing achievements to…
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…
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 you’re capable of?
No, I don’t mean physically.
I mean goals outside…
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…
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 is.
Some people will stop learning by choice. They’ve had their fair share of as much as they can — and would like to — take.
Others see the merit in evolving, changing, and recycling the knowledge, as it’s refined and further developed throughout their…
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 times where the client doesn’t know where to look or what to consider. They…
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 past, to determine what it is that made us who we…
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 on the company’s policies which purportedly cost the driver $97,000 in losses.
In the…
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 in its members because it doesn’t seem as if some have the…
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 has been built and laid out before one’s own tenure.
It is not merely continuing what was laid out before one’s arrival, but also building upon and improving it,…
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 a familiar, supportive, and safe environment in which to proceed,…
This time of year we all get sentimental. The season is about family, friends, and realizing the true value of what we have as we close out the year, where toward the end of that celebratory season we’re then faced with what we will take on in New Year’s resolutions.
Giving thanks stems from appreciation, which stems from acknowledgement, which stems from taking stock and assessing what’s taking…
Leadership Lesson: Advice doesn’t need to be accepted all-or-nothing. Break down advice to identify what may apply to your goals and needs before dismissing or accepting advice completely.
Working in leadership and talent development, one can hear musings go back and forth as to the credibility or reliability of pieces of advice.
Follow your passion. Just be yourself. Everything happens for a reason. Fake it until you make it.
Pieces of advice might be well-intentioned and…
Keep in mind though: It is a setback. You start in the basement. You start from 0. And there's nothing wrong with that. It's liberating. Who and what are you surrounding yourself with that let's you see the value in failure. That's the key. #motivation #fear #failure #coaching twitter.com/successmagazin…
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