Be Kind to Yourself

Leadership presents a rollercoaster of triumphs and trials. Like everyone else, they are not immune to a missed deadline, underwhelming projects or a personal challenge that has disrupted their schedule. These moments can leave us feeling disheartened and even cause us to question our abilities. Yet, in these crucial moments, the most adept leaders embrace […]

Wellbeing at Work: 9 Tips for a Happier, High-Performing Team

In today’s fast-paced and demanding work environment where the pressure is endless, it’s easy to get caught up in the never-ending race to achieve goals, meet deadlines, and outperform your competitors. However, amidst the hustle and bustle, you might easily overlook one crucial element — the wellbeing of your team.You see, prioritizing your team’s wellbeing […]

What Will Happen to My Team if … ?

As we continue to lead our teams and organizations through the COVID-19 pandemic, there are so many things that leaders must do to ensure the safety and performance of their team. There’s one thing in particular I want to put on your radar! In addition to your increased management and leadership responsibilities, there is one […]

Leading Through Disruption

In the fields of Manufacturing, Technology, Customer Service, HR, and the list goes on and on, the big topic at conferences around the globe has been around “Innovative Disruption.” How can we disrupt our daily routines to discover critical solutions, create new products, and streamline existing processes and procedures to produce breakthroughs in our systems? How […]

Extraordinary Personal and Team Payoffs of a Strengths Culture

In your family there are certain values, beliefs, attitudes, rules and behaviors that are taught, demonstrated, and nurtured in order to help your children grow into responsible adults. In addition to those family values, there are behaviors that are considered dealbreakers. Certain behaviors are simply unacceptable. These values, beliefs, attitudes, rules, and behaviors define your […]

When it Comes to Feedback, Delivery is Everything!

People often have a negative reaction to “feedback” because, over the years, the message was sent but not received, let alone understood. For a variety of reasons, the feedback was often too vague, too direct, too punative, too one-sided, and the list goes on and on. The result? Good Feedback + Bad Delivery = Negative […]

Transformational Leaders are Extremely Caring …

Valentine’s Day is this week and it reminds me of the importance of expressing gratitude and appreciation within our teams, families, and communities. As a leader, these leadership skills address a very important question on the minds of your followers: Do you care about me? Do you care about my struggles? Do you care about […]

Flip the Feedback Script!

As we kick off this month’s featured topic, instead of always thinking of feedback as “GIVING FEEDBACK,” let’s flip the script! Instead of looking for opportunities to GIVE FEEDBACK this week … I think we should develop the discipline of ASKING for feedback! Whether you are a leader, team member, parent, or community volunteer, asking […]

Are You Emotionally Intelligent?

From my experience of working with leaders and teams, when I mention “emotional intelligence” you easily see the confused looks on their faces. Some people think it is similar to your IQ in that you are either born with emotional intelligence or you’re not, or it is a special gift or talent that only certain […]

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