Here is an excerpt from Leadership Matters. It contains 31 daily insights to inspire extraordinary results. day 14: Impact Contrary to the lyrics from a classic rock song, one is not the loneliest number. But it is the most important number! Your thoughts, words, and actions are like individual notes that work in concert to create the…
As parents and leaders, we tend to focus on teaching lessons to our teams, whether it is a team of employees at work or a team of children at home. In today’s fast-moving and ever-changing world, we must also focus on learning new lessons ourselves. We have learned from our children how to: give grace…
There are lessons to be learned in everything your team does. Look for learning opportunities in post-project reviews, customer meetings, conflicts with other departments, changes in priorities, miscommunications, and mistakes. Get curious about these situations. This will also set a positive example for your team and plant the seeds of curiosity in them. Try these…
Today more than ever, there is a virtual “leadership lab” of learning activities and opportunities available to help you build your leadership skills and refine your coaching mindset. There is a treasure trove of knowledge about leadership at your fingertips, literally. But there is more to learn than just what you can read and watch…
We have been blessed with the opportunity to serve hundreds of CEOs since we started our leadership advisory business. Our clients lead Fortune 1000 enterprises, mid-market companies, and smaller, growth businesses. We continue to grow with them and learn from them. So, in this series, we will share the best leadership advice that one of our CEO…
Inspiring coaches master their emotions and deal with them effectively. As a result, they are able to keep the main objective in mind and communicate their goal without getting caught up in their emotions. They move from being emotional to being emotionally intelligent. “A leader’s emotions are highly contagious,” writes Annie McKee, a senior fellow…
Empathy is our feeling of awareness toward other people's emotions and an attempt to understand how they feel. Compassion is an emotional response to empathy or sympathy and creates a desire to help. So, compassion turns empathy into action. One way to cultivate compassion within your team is to embed a ritual into your regular…
Life always moves forward, never backward. Your life and career are on a pathway to somewhere, so why not be intentional about your destination and enjoy the journey? Start by asking yourself two simple questions: What would I like my life to look like in a year, 5 and 10 years? When I look…
Success at any level requires the ability to follow through, to execute a plan, to persevere ... to stick to it. Get the success you deserve! Read Sticking to It: The Art of Adherence.
I recently reconnected with a colleague, Rebecca Reynolds, who has just published a new book, Thresholds of Change: The Way through Transformational Times. While catching up, Rebecca shared some insights about her unique take on change and how the book differs from others on the subject. According to Rebecca, the popular conception that humans are…
