Is ignorant a bad word? Should we hire the ignorant? The answers are No and Maybe. It takes a special leader to hire the ignorant and sometimes hiring them is a bad idea. It can also be a powerful word for pushing us to grow.
Do you write thank you notes? It is a powerful way to build trust with others and to monitor how well you are recognizing great things that people are doing around you.
Leaders need to know others and be known by others. Here is a tool to help start those conversations – it is great leadership and great followership.
What to do with people that are not performing on a team? This is a question asked in my leadership / followership class and I committed to blog on the answer.
A question from my Leadership / Followership class at the Holland Chamber of Commmerce. Question was around the facilitation of a group that was stuck in the decision making process.
What does great followership / great leadership look like? Here is a visual example thanks to TED.
Leadership is challenging. One challenge is creating a safe place for conversations and still have boundaries when problems come to you that are beyond what you can help solve. The formal name is Employee Assistance Program, but another good name is Leadership Assistance Program.
Leaders can handle lots of stress. Can their marriages? How about their teams? This post offers a perspective on leadership and stress that you might not have thought about.
Helping people define a future place/role they aspire to is challenging because the outcome takes time. Tyranny of the urgent makes these conversations hare, even though the questions to answer are simple. It takes great leadership and great followership to make these conversations and the outcomes happen.
Is it wrong to talk about great followership? We talk about great leadership. Here are five levels of followership that make people think and will drive the question to leaders “So what do you think.”
The Ford Rouge facility is a great example of how history should be used when talking about the present and future, but it should not control it. Great tour – but there are greater leadership lessons to be learned there beyond how to make a car.
In part one I labelled an unsupported leadership transition as MEAN. This is the second post where I outline some simple things a leader can do to lower the chance of failure for a new leader to their team. This is a guest post on Mary Jo Asmus’ site, an excellent coach and a friend.