Here is a great gift for Valentine’s Day. It will help you focus on a very important relationship and have some laughs and A-HAs along the way. Likely some of this information will transfer back to work – but don’t make that a primary goal.
Communication is the one area where we all need to focus on improving every year. Here are a few resources I have found helpful for certain situations or relationships. Do you have any to add?
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 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.
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
Resilience is shaping up to be one of the top topics of 2011. Stress is not going away quickly in a slow recovery, so people have to get better at managing that stress when it occurs. This is a discussion to better understand what resilience is and what can be done to build it.
If you have not heard Jessica Jackley speak you should. If you have not been on Kiva.org you should go and see it. Her story is a great illustration of the power of passion coupled with an insatiable desire to take action.
How does it feel when it seems others are not working as hard as you? How about seeing executives with new cars every two years and you have not had a raise in two years? Whatever the source, this trustBUSTER is more about perception than anything else. Explore why it happens and what leaders and followers can do to make it go away.
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!)
Understanding ourselves is the number one ingredient to successfully manage our career choices, stress, job changes, and our own happiness. It is a big topic, but here is a good place to start in 300 words.
Vulnerability is a powerful tool for mentoring and building relationships. All to often we skip over the uncomfortable questions to handle the easy ones. Here are some career questions that we should all be ready and willing to share.
Teams come together around a task to complete. An inability of team members to own and complete work on time will destroy trust. Explore the origin of this TrustBUSTER and what leaders can do to ensure it does not become an issue on their team.