Resilience and leadership is a big topic. It is an important topic. Here is a formula that captures the essence of resilience.
The Resilience Formula – for Leaders . . . for Followers
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Your voice is smiling
Attitude is contagious. Smiles also become contagious, and people can hear smiles. Here is a thought about how leading with a smile makes a difference.
I can’t afford leadership training right now . . . what does that mean?
It is hard to invest in training when the market is way down. But investing in your best people goes way beyond a line item in the budget. Compensation is not a driver for your best people, it is time, opportunity, and the feeling they are part of something special. Here is a talent scorecard that helps a leader step back and understand what they should be doing.
100th Post: What do I believe?
What do I believe? A question that is good to ask on occassion because it makes us think and put a stake in the ground on something. It might change, and even in that there is some learning. Here is what I believe.
My Lessons from the The Go-Giver – and why Millenials are way ahead . . .
Using a giving focus to building a business is one of the cornerstones of the book, The Go-Giver. It is a book that made me think, and it also made me wonder if a millenial would look at the message and wonder “What is the big deal about tha?”. They have it has part of their fabric already.
Leaders – The 4 Questions We Are Afraid To Ask
Some questions are hard to ask. Not because they are difficult to word correctly, but because the potential answers make us nervous. Actually, we are afraid of the answers. Here are 4 questions that leaders fear asking, and 4 habits that help us ask them.
Four lessons from recruiting pastors – that any organization SHOULD use
How does recruiting a pastor teach you leadership? What can we learn be connecting with people who have decided to make a career out of not for profit leadership? Here are four things I learned from serving on a team tasked to find two new pastors. An
Key to identifying high potentials: ASK (Guest Post)
High potential programs are a great way to focus limited development resources (time and money) on the right people. Too often selection of these people does not include the step of asking. After all, why would anyone turn down a chance to make more money and become an executive?
Approachability: A practice
Coaching is often about helping people make significant changes through simple practices. The slow-flooding smile is one of those practices. Here is a way it might look, and the questions a coach might ask to reflect on the impact.
Start: Performance Conversations Stop: Performance Evaluations Here is a template.
Performance evaluations are a tool for leaders and followers. The outcome should be a great discussion with a plan for the coming year. Here is a template for how to do that in your organization.
Leadership: 3 Keys To Building Culture
Leadership is about creating culture. Sometimes that gets lost in the mix when we look at large and complex organizations. There are great examples of how this looks in a startup, and INC. magazine highlighted some in their June 2011 issue. Here are three things I took away from the article.
Ego and Leadership: My story
Is ego in leaders bad? When we think of ego we too often point to examples where ego has been the destruction of people. Barry Bonds. Bill Clinton. Marion Jones. Richard Nixon. The list could get long. We too often forget that ego is the reason many of these people succeeded in the first place. Ego deserves some exploration.