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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 6/9/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: New behaviors to bring new results, boosting your creativity, failure can help your listening, ways leaders become great, motivational quotes, habits of resilient people, changing roles, improving confidence, illuminating new trends, being open to seeing things differently Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes 8 Habits of Happy, Healthy, and Successful People http://crwd.fr/2rT1Ubq By Benjamin P. Hardy Simple behaviors that are committed to over time can yield enormous results Boost Your Creativity…
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Are You Ready to Change How You See the World?

Have you had someone present a new idea or a change that they want to make to you? Before they even finish, are you ready to tell them why it won’t work? We all use our experience and our beliefs as a filter of judgment to things that are new. Do they fit into what we believe or not? What if you suspended your judgment and looked at things with a completely open mind instead? What if you assumed that…
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What Actions Will You Take to Improve Your Confidence?

When it comes to confidence, you have probably heard the phrase “fake it until you make it.” For some people that will work, but not for everyone. Confidence is a hard thing to shift. You may appear confident, but inside you may be feeling like an impostor and that you don’t have all the skills or capabilities that you need. The irony here is that you do have them, but your fear is trying to protect you from failing or…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 6/5/17

Client Question: “I am interested in moving to a different area of my organization. What are some steps that I should do to make this happen? The first step is to connect with some of the people who already work in that area. This is more of a knowledge exchange to find out about the area and share information about yourself. You can say that you are exploring multiple areas of the company to learn more about them. • Identify…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 6/2/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: the power of your purpose, using open ended questions, holding people accountable, getting a raise, managerial courage, thinking outside the box to create new possibilities, using 4 simple questions to reflect on your day, improving your connector skills Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes Ground Yourself in the Power Of Your Purpose @LollyDaskal http://bit.ly/1Q899xR When it comes to living your purpose and leading with meaning, commitment and effectiveness are your foundation….
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How Can You Improve Your Ability to Be a Connector?

One of my favorite topics is the importance of connecting. Here is a post on that topic from Guest Contributor Mona Reiser: In reading an article in the Atlanta Journal Constitution on Matt Arnett “A Curated Life” there were two sentences that resonated with me and were easily “business/leadership attributable.” “Matt maintains friendships with many influential people in Atlanta, many of whom refer to him as a “maven”, an “influencer”, a “connector”. For the reading of this blog, let’s focus…
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Are You Going to Follow the Chicago Cubs Lead?

There are many motivational speeches given at college graduation ceremonies this time of year. I recently read Theo Epstein’s Yale Graduation Speech that he gave at the commencement ceremony. For those of you who don’t know him he is the President of Baseball Operations for the Chicago Cubs. (I know not everyone may be a Cubs fan, but please keep reading anyway!) I had some key take-aways when I read the speech that I would like to share. If you…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 5/29/17

Client Question: “Everyone in my management team believes we should go down a certain path for this project and I believe it will cause us major problems if we do. How should I approach this situation?” This is a moment to demonstrate your courage. When you think about the list of leadership traits that leaders possess, courage doesn’t always get mentioned along with the others. It is one of the traits that really makes such a difference though. Having the…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 5/26/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: Being an inclusive leader, does your leadership add or subtract value, how can you be persuasive, building a cohesive team, defining leadership, asking for what you want, focus on what could go right, how can your leadership continue to impact others Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes “Portrait of an Inclusive Leader” http://ht.ly/GIFe30bYeML by @benjaminclusion The inclusive leader creates an environment where dissent isn’t viewed as negativity, or being difficult; but an…
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Can You Focus on What Could Go Right?

I was helping my neighbor with a printer issue that she was having the other day. She said to me “I don’t know why this technology stuff is so hard for me.” I told her that a lot of people have a fear of messing something up when they do new things with technology. What causes that fear? Is it just a mental block that they have? For many people it is just the unknown and it feels overwhelming. I…
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Do You Want to Be the Leader Who Engages Their Team?

What does an employee need to be engaged? Do they need an inspiring manager? A senior leadership team that sets the example of engagement? An organizational culture that supports engagement? Having these things in place will definitely help, but employees also need their own internal motivation and drive to be engaged. Having your own drive and determination is necessary especially when you have a manager who isn’t motivating you in the best way. Jeff was an engineer who had worked for…
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What Is One of the Best Ways to Engage Your Team?

How do you know if someone is engaged? What makes someone on a team more engaged than anyone else? An engaged team member is passionate about their job, they will do what it takes to get things done and they are committed to the organization. They are motivated from within and have a growth mindset. They love to learn new things and know that they will figure out what they don’t know. What if you have someone who isn’t engaged though? They may come to…
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Is Your Team Engaged Even When You Aren’t All Together?

If you and your team have worked together in person, you already have that bond. However, when everyone is working remotely, it can be a challenge to ensure that everyone is engaged. What do you need to do to ensure that everyone is still connected on a consistent basis? What if you add new team members to the group? How do you adjust your leadership to support the remote engagement that is necessary for success? These are the real questions…
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