Seth Godin talks about people as artists and their work as art. Think about the artists you work with and what they produce. What is your art?
To Know Yourself – Know your Art
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Performance Management
Want to develop as a leader? Focus on these three adjectives
Use these three adjectives to drive and measure your efforts to develop as a leader.
Secret Sauce for Performance – Knowing What Matters to Your People. A story . . .
Rewarding people means knowing what matters the most to people. Here is a story about what that looks like and two things you can do to
Lessons in Leadership – Learning delegation from a child
Learning to delegate is a key skill for a leader. Here is a simple way for you to assess your teams ability to solve their own problems and your ability to give them space to do that.
Finally Friday! – Why it is the best day to connect with your people
Friday is really a rare opportunity to connect with your people. Here is why and how you can use what they say to learn a little bit more
Developing Resilience – 4 Ways to Process Pain
Developing resilience is partly about processing the pain or discomfort you are feeling. Here are four ways to do that.
The Law of Leadership Transparency – 3 ways to apply it
Transparency is important enough in leadership to become a law. Here is the law of transparency and three ways to apply it to develop leaders and trusting relationships.
Silence and Resilience
Silence is not equal to doing nothing. Silence in resilience is about cleaning the lists off the mental whiteboard and only putting one or two things on it for a short time so they get attention. The Birkman Method is a great way to review how we need or should use silence.
Silence – Creating it
Creating silence is a challenge, but a necessity. Here are a few words putting some perspective on it and sharing a method for creating it.
Resilience – 4 Steps to NOT make it another initiative
Resilience is a timely discussion given the current economic realities. The key is not to make it an initiative, but make it a habit. Here are some key steps that help make that a reality
Is Failure The End?
How do we process failure? What opportunities or building blocks do we have with failure? It is worth exploring for anyone who has experienced it and needs to learn from it. (which is all of us!)
Leave the Squirrels Alone – Put Energy Where It Matters
Making decisions in the heat of a ‘battle’ often results in costly choices. The cost might only be time, but more than likely it is eroded trust, weakened relationships, and a shift from we thinking to me thinking. Seth Godin calls this lizard brain thinking. So how do we avoid it?