Last week, we highlighted Healthy Leadership which is a force multiplier for the 5 growth factors in the Healthy Growth process. Today, we will highlight the first of the five growth factors: Compelling Purpose & Plan. To convince others, you must first believe in your organization’s purpose and plan. Winston Churchill said, “Before you can…
Healthy Leaders intentionally use their words to get the best from themselves and others. They carefully choose words to reframe daily events. For example, they convert these typical statements into more growth-oriented, empowering ones by using "yet", "get" and "for": I do not know how to market this new product. vs. I do not know how to market…
This field-tested healthy growth process is aligned with the unique needs of today’s worker and the requirements for today’s leader. It predictably yields healthy growth for you, your employees, and your business. Leadership is a force multiplier when it comes to the healthy growth. The leader sets the vision and expectations for the five growth…
Leaders have acknowledged the importance of growth for years. The current environment has simply underscored its importance. Here are a few perspectives on growth: "Change is inevitable. Growth is optional." - Ron Jensen, entrepreneur "Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it." -…
JUST IMAGINE, this is your company… Top performing employees are flourishing. They are using their natural gifts to help the company grow. They are healthy, happy, and innovative. They embrace risk and challenges. They are motivated by the bigger purpose of their work and willingly give their personal time and energy to fulfill that purpose.…
This past year certainly forced many of us to grow in ways we would have never imagined and faster than we could have ever imagined. Here are the simple truths of growth: What gets watered grows. Growth is a choice. Growth occurs when you are uncomfortable. When you help others grow, you grow. Growth opportunities are limitless.…
Expansive research by Gallup clearly shows that today's worker is more: purpose-drivenconversationalfocused on strengthsdevelopment-oriented. This chart shows the shift in worker focus. These shifts in worker focus have existed since 2016, but the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated them just as any crisis tends to accelerate existing trends.Considering the needs of today’s worker, today’s leader must: 1. Start…
From an early age, God instilled within us a passion to understand and encourage people. Youth sports and school leadership roles triggered Lee’s thirst to learn more about leadership. Julie’s intrigue with psychology started in third grade as she followed her father’s readings and her mother’s teachings. We both studied psychology at Florida State University. …
After 21 years of serving leaders, last year we started a process of designing our future much like we have for many clients. During this iterative process we dug deep to better understand ourselves, our clients and the world of work. Our objective was to zoom in on the intersection of our personal calling, priorities…
In 7 Moments… that Define Excellent Leaders some of my favorite stories appear under a moment to invest. Here is one of them… In the late 1890s, two young men were working their way through Stanford University when, during the semester, their funds got desperately low, and they came up with the idea of engaging Ignacy Paderewski,…
