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.
Knowing Someone Changes How We Treat Them
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Self Awareness
To Know Yourself – Know your Art
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?
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.
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.
Communication – Always room for improvement. Right?
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?
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.
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!)