Use these three adjectives to drive and measure your efforts to develop as a leader.
Leadership
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
What keeps you up at night? A unique way to use this question
What keeps you up at night? This questions has been asked many times, but never used quite like the way I heard it from retired Brigadier General David Hall.
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.
Leadership and . . . Valentine’s Day?
At the core of Valentine’s Day there is something that matters to the relationships around us. In fact, there are some truths we should be sharing that probably would make a difference in any of the relationships we have at work or at home. Here are some examples.
Lead? Yes. With Laughter? Absolutely! Here is one way . .
Leadning is hard work. Startup is hard work. But find some time for laughter. Here is a quick story about what that might look like.
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.
Silence – Why it is powerful
Silence can be a powerful tool. Some quick thoughts to explore how it can be a tool for leaders and a tool for followers to evaluate leaders.
Resilience – The discussion starts(and continues) with transparency
Resilience is not about appearing to be super-human. It is about developing the skills/habits that allow us to recover quickly. Leaders need to have it, but also be willing to admit to others that they do get shaken. Transparency allows us to be human and helps others see that it is normal to be rattled by surprises.