I was sitting in a book editing retreat to learn the best ways to edit my book a few years ago. It was a small group event held in a beautiful resort in upstate New York to teach all the future authors in the room how to edit our books. During one of the first days of the event, each of us was supposed to take a turn reading a small selection of one of our chapters to the rest…
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Each person who works in a company has an expectation of their manager whether they consciously think about it or not. Most of the time the expectations from either side aren’t even discussed. The manager most likely leads each person on their team in the same way without thinking about it. The employee doesn’t talk about their own expectations and adapts to the style of the manager in the best way that they can. Each generation has different expectations of…
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Every year I choose a word as my theme for the year. This year my word is vulnerability. I thought I was good at being vulnerable when I was working in corporate, but now I realize that I wasn’t taking it to the level that I could have. Some of you know that I am writing a book right now. Well it has been in the works for over a year now (writing a good book is way harder than it…
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The definition of vulnerability is the quality or state of being exposed to the possibility of being attacked or harmed, either physically or emotionally. That pretty well sums up where we are globally right now. The fear of the unknown impacts with Coronavirus is changing the world right now. What we have seen or heard from others is playing on our vulnerabilities to an extent that none of us would have expected a few months ago. Viktor Frankl, holocaust survivor said,…
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I used to think that you couldn’t be vulnerable without being seen as weak. I thought that letting my guard down would allow others to judge and criticize me which would cause my credibility to be diminished. It would mean that I would have to let people know that I didn’t have all the answers and I needed help. That was definitely true, I just didn’t want to admit it to anyone or to myself. I decided to start being more…
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When you are trying to share a lesson with your team, do you share how you learned that lesson yourself? In the article “4 Lessons You Learn About Humility While Ambitiously Chasing Success by Silvia Turnova, she talks about sharing more of yourself when you are trying to reach your goals. She lists four lessons to consider: Being Humble – always remember where you came from and that others helped you get to where you are. What are you doing…
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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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