The modern workforce values coaches far greater than bosses, according to Gallup's 'State of the American Workplace'. This means that in your leadership, you should frame yourself as a part of the team, working for their success, rather than as a task manager.
Read MoreWe have all experienced or observed a boss who was unable to give up control. This was actually a battle of empowering their team to step up to leadership. As leaders we should be raising up leaders around us and the best way to do that is through empowerment. We all have stories of a mentor, teacher, coach, or leader who had an uncanny ability to empower us to be more than we thought possible.
Read More“Leadership is about making others better as a result of your presence and making sure that impact lasts in your absence." Have you ever been around that one person who makes you feel like a million bucks? The person you can’t wait to pick up when they call? Leadership is a lot like that. Our job is to pour into our team and coach them towards their goals to be more than they thought they could ever be.
Read MoreIn your leadership, are you neglecting the most important meeting of your week? As we’ve spoken with countless leaders at influential organizations across the country, we’ve continued to find that taking time to meet one on one with team members seems to be less and less of a priority. In fact, many leaders fail to set aside time for this entirely. So, why are these meetings so critical to the health and success of your organization?
Read More“We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.” Everyone makes mistakes, everyone misses the mark. Leaders understand their imperfect selves, know how to apologize, own up to mistakes. But they also know how to move on.
Read More“One of the greatest compliments you can be paid as a leader is to have someone say that you helped them be better than they thought they could be.” Leaders are coaches in the sense that they pull out the gold in their team and push them to new heights.
Read MoreBy 2025, Millennials are expected to make up over 75% of the workforce in the United States, which tells us the workplace is changing, and with it many of the values employees most highly treasure. At the top of this list for the Gen X workforce, is authenticity in leadership. If they don’t feel the real you, you’ll find yourself struggling to instill trust, foster engagement, and drive productivity.
Read More“The highest quality of thinking cannot emerge without learning. Learning can’t happen without mistakes.” If your goal is to have a team that really thinks through problems, solves them, has intuition, and has a culture of innovation, you need to first wrap your mind around mistakes happening. Think about how you can foster an environment for mistakes to be welcomed in the context of learning from them.
Read MoreWe understand no one wants another boring, useless, unproductive meeting. The average leader is already spending 12-14 hours a week, if not more, in meetings that often fail to push the needle. To help drive the efficiency and productivity of this time, we’ve put together a few best practices on how to have great meetings:
Read More“If you want to inspire others, always communicate your why first.” Every company in the world knows what they do, which is why it’s the first thing they tell people about. But rationale is a weak way of trying to get people to make buying decisions, probably the weakest of them all. That’s because emotions trump reason every time.
Read MoreCreating loyalty on your team is essential for the long-term success of any organization. Not only will it decrease turnover, but it will boost productivity, increase efficiency, and provide a much more stable and fun work environment for everyone.
Read MoreUnderstanding the Enneagram will not only help with your leadership through self-awareness, but it will also open opportunities for you to support you team with more understanding! The Enneagram refers to the nine different personality types; each representing a worldview that resonates with the way people think, feel, and act in relation to the world, others and themselves.
Read MoreIt can be difficult to navigate working closely with people from other generations, especially leading them. In order to work better together, we have to understand one another. Just like ethnic and gender diversity is important, generational diversity is as well.
Read More“Quality questions create a quality life.” The quality of your life is not necessarily based on the quality of your circumstances; it’s based on your mental and emotional filters that determine your perception of the outside world. Are you aware of what you focus on most; your primary question in life? Whatever it is, it will shape, mold, and direct your life. Let’s make it a good one!
Read MoreTaking action is one of those painfully simple ideas that can’t be repeated enough: without taking action you won’t get anywhere. This post is about becoming a man or woman of action. Taking the actions suggested in this post will make it exponentially easier to take action in every other area of your life. You will begin to automatically do what you had to fight to do before.
Read More“The secret of your success is determined by your daily agenda.” If you make a few key decisions and then manage them well in your daily agenda, you will succeed. You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. Success doesn’t just suddenly occur one day in your life. Conversely, neither does failure. Each is a process. Maxwell says that every day of your life is merely preparation for the next.
Read MoreHigh performers are true assets to their teams. These are individuals who excel when it comes to skills and responsibilities. They are results-driven and motivated, and their work carries a sense of excellence. They have little need for supervision or hand-holding. They latch on to the goal or vision of what is expected from them, and they make it happen. However, most of the time, these high performers need a completely different skill set to jump from being an independent contributor to managing others. How do you know if they enjoy helping others succeed?
Read More"No man can get rich himself unless he enriches others." Self-serving only gets you so far. When you think about success and riches, be sure you are first considering the impact you are having on others.
Read MoreDo you ever feel overwhelmed by all the decisions you have to make? Do you ever wonder if the decisions you're making are having a positive impact on your team? The average adult makes around 35,000 conscious decisions per day, and we think it's safe to assume leaders are making even more. Knowing the pain of trying to figure out the best course of action in often stressful environments, we've put together some steps to help you make decisions quickly and rationally, while giving you space to review and reflect on choices to learn how to become a better leader.
Read MoreLeaders are especially vulnerable to stress. Long hours. Pressure. Lofty goals. Often leaders put others first and sacrifice their own well-being in the process. That’s a recipe for overall failure.
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