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Is Your Life Heading in the Right Direction?

The first two posts of this week were focused on an overview of tolerations and your physical space tolerations. Yesterday’s post was targeting the financial tolerations that you may need to address. Today’s post is focused on the tolerations that impact your health and your relationships. The other tolerations are important, but these two need to be your priority. The tendency to put yourself last on the list generally occurs when you have a lot going on at work and…
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Do You Have a Good Plan in Place?

The first two posts of this week were focused on an overview of tolerations and your physical space tolerations. The focus for today’s tolerations post is on your financials and your career. Planning out for your future may seem like something you can always do later, but later comes sooner than you think. These are the hard decisions that are difficult to make and so people put them off. It is not easy to do, but having a plan in…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 4/17/17

Today’s Question: How can I eliminate the tolerations that I have in my life? What is a toleration? These are the things that stress you out every day, but they haven’t caused you enough “pain” to make a change to them yet. Here is an easy example of a toleration. You have a messy closet that you need to clean out. There are things in there that you aren’t wearing anymore that you should donate or throw out. However, you…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 4/14/17

Welcome to the Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary! This week’s summary includes: the story of your life, creating your leadership legacy, an easy process to follow for a one on one, what is more important than money, do you talk about solutions or problems, growing self-confidence, can you admit that you are wrong, are you demonstrating good leadership and who are being as a leader Articles/Ted Talks/Quotes “When writing the story of your life, don’t let anyone else hold the…
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Who Do You Want To Be Today?

One of my favorite thought leaders on leadership is Lilly Daskal. She posted a blog recently that was focused on the fact that “you are the leadership message.” Here are 3 of the 9 different messages highlighted in the article that stand out for me: You get the best out of others when you give the best of yourself It’s not just what happens to you that determines how far you will go; it is also how you handle what happens…
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Are You Being Careless With Your Leadership?

I was reading this article today called If Your Employees Act Like They Don’t Care, You Might Be Doing These 11 Things Wrong by Sunny Bonnell. The first quote in the article is: “People come for great vision and leave for poor leadership.” This is such a true statement. I have seen people make decisions to stay in an organization because of the vision that a leader shared. They were inspired and believed that the leader would help them reach…
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Should a Good Leader Admit to Being Wrong?

What is it about being a leader of a team or organization that makes you feel like you have to know everything? Maybe it is part ego or that people expect leaders to make decisions and know what to do. It took me a long time to admit that I am not perfect. I have made many mistakes and learned some hard lessons along the way. You can’t go backwards, so you have to learn those lessons and do better…
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Monday Morning Leadership Q&A – 4/10/17

Today’s Question: “What are some tips to grow my self-confidence?” Self-confidence by definition is “a feeling of trust in one’s abilities, qualities, and judgment.” When you are young, you automatically have this trust in yourself. You don’t even question what you can do, you just do it. If you try to do something that you shouldn’t, your parents will step in to prevent you from being hurt. This is where you begin to listen to others about what you should…
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Fantastic Leadership Resource Summary – 3/31/17

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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Are You Aware of the Assumptions That You Are Making?

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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Do You Think Managing Up is a Good Thing?

Building a strong relationship with your manager is important to your career. Your manager can support you and help you gain visibility to move up in your career or they can also be the person that holds you back from progressing any further. Managing up is focused on finding the best ways to work together which ultimately supports you. How can you help them achieve their goals which can provide you additional opportunities for visibility? What strengths do you…
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What Is Helpful To Know About Your Manager?

There are some key things that you need to know to have an effective working relationship with your boss. What are your manager’s strengths and opportunity areas? No leader can know or be good at everything so it is important to do some of this research. How can you help support your manager in the opportunity areas? Look for the things that will increase the value of your relationship and will provide ways that you can build trust. It is also…
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How Can You Support Your Manager Like A Client?

I attended a training class many years ago on coaching and feedback. The two big things that I remember from that class were: give feedback to someone in a timely manner and that your manager is your top client. I had lots of clients at the time, but never considered that my manager was one of them. It was one of those aha moments for me and it made a lot of sense. This type of thinking shifts how you…
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