In yesterday’s post the focus was on ensuring that you are growing and developing yourself. When you look at how busy your day is and the back to back meeting schedule, how would you fit it in? Stephen Covey said ” The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” This is where you have to take control of your calendar vs letting it take control of you. The easiest thing to do is…
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Today’s Question: “What are you doing to ensure you continue to grow and develop as a leader?” Have you ever taken music lessons as a kid or as an adult? Did you only take one lesson? Were you so great that you never needed another one? In most cases the answer is no. You need many more lessons and lots of practice to get really good. Leadership is the same way. You don’t just magically know everything because someone gave…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: becoming a great leader, building your legacy, managing remote workers, dealing with an indecisive boss, 10 mistakes new managers make, making a presentation with errors, career plan, culture of a team, and making assumptions Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 5 Simple Ways Good Leaders Become Great @LollyDaskalhttp://www.inc.com/lolly-daskal/be-the-leader-that-goes-from-good-to-great-in-few-minutes.html … Nobody aspires to be just a good leader. Greatness is the goal, and these simple strategies can help you achieve it. How to…
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I read a book about 10 years ago called “The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Freedom” * by Don Miguel Ruiz and Peter Coyote. In the book, they talk about the way that you can create love and happiness in your life by living these agreements. The agreements are: To be impeccable with your word – speak with integrity and use words that really say what you mean. You are judged by the words that you use, so ensure that they…
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What type of culture does your company have? The company that I worked for was very large and had many processes/procedures that had been in place for a long time. It made it more challenging to drive decisions and get things done. Once the company separated into two, then things changed. One company kept a lot of the old culture, while the other company took on more of an entrepreneurial culture. The change was driven from the CEO on the…
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I wrote an article back in September 2016 on having an “accidental career.” You can read the post here. I know that was a true statement for me and it happens for a lot of people. You are so busy going through the day to day motions of your job, that you don’t realize it. This is especially true in corporate roles where your management sees potential in you and moves you to another role that needs your help. Sure,…
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Today’s Question: “I made a presentation today to a new group. My boss came up afterwards and said that my slides had some errors. Is it really a big deal when you have a few errors on your presentation slides?” The short answer is yes. Here is the longer answer as to why it is important. When you are presenting information, people want to know that what you are saying is credible and they can believe you. When you…
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Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: motivation, goals, getting to know your employees personally, fix your leadership pipeline, personal brand, setting a leadership example, mentoring others, focus on excellence over perfection Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 5 Ways To Nurture Extraordinary Performance https://twitter.com/SusanMBarber/status/844313422560985089 Extraordinary performance is driving by motivation Goals Are Not the Issue, It’s the Way You Think About Them by Jan J. Osburn https://twitter.com/SusanMBarber/status/844043775437668352 Change the Way You Think About Your Goals Want More from…
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Perfection is a slippery slope for a lot of people. Whatever you do just never seems to be quite good enough. You keep tweaking and adjusting things to make them better. In most cases, it probably does make them better. But does the extra time that you spend doing that work make them that much better? This is the dilemma for those who seek out perfection. Brene Brown breaks down what perfectionism really is. “It’s a way of thinking that…
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Leaders have a lot of expectations placed upon them when they take the role. They have a team to develop, projects to deliver, strategies to define and keeping their stakeholders happy. What about the other expectations that are not always so obvious? Yesterday’s post focused on some of these expectations in terms of body language and behavior that leaders need to focus on. Another unwritten expectation is that you should help, support and guide others. How can you share what…
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