I believe we all know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result.
Our actions can be the very definition of insanity if we’re not taking the time to reflect on the choices we make in our defining moments of leadership. ...
Chart Breakers are those defining moment choices that open doors for you to achieve much higher levels of success.
Chart breaking choices I (Cindy) have watched family, friends, and clients make recently include leaving a toxic culture to gain opportunity in a whole new industry. For one family...
Unfortunately, we face heartbreaking moments in our lifetime. It’s a high likelihood you already have, and I (Cindy) don’t know anyone who has made it through life with just one heartbreak. These are devastating losses and what we do with them defines our future.
A while...
Leaders become better leaders when they experience a defining moment and respond to it correctly. John Maxwell
How often do you think about the defining moments in your life and whether your choices took you in a positive direction? The more we learn from these moments the better...
Some of the benefits of promoting from within are how we show the individual being promoted that we value their contribution, that we’re willing to invest in their career development, and that we see them as part of our business succession plan. But don’t think for a minute that...
Near the end of a recent lesson in our Leading At The Next Level program, I shared something I had found in a Bloomberg.com article that ties right in with what the point we closed with last time; career advancement is not a one-size-fits-all proposition!
Certain jobs attract people with...
There’s one important thing we’ll have to do if we want to have any hope of creating a succession plan where the right people are in the right seats on our bus… We’ve got to know our team; I mean really know them! We need to understand how we can communicate with them...
Did you read the subject line and sing the next phrase in your head? I kinda still am… But unlike the wheels on the bus that go round and round, the seats on our organization’s bus absolutely should not! And if we want to get really serious about the business succession planning we...
Sharing best practices with other business owners and executives, then bouncing around ideas on how to solve current issues, can provide resources few in these roles ever have access to. When this happens within a group that’s been built strategically to ensure there’s no conflict of...
A new coaching client asked me (Cindy) recently what my favorite book on leadership was. Without hesitation I shared the single most impactful book for me other than the Bible is, 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth. As leaders, we must lead ourselves well before we have any hope of leading...
Recently, we provided our Emerging Leader Development training to a group of 15 or so managers and supervisors. One of my (Cindy) favorite parts we’ll land on next week with this group is on the topic of having a growth plan. With this, we explain some of the gaps each of us...
Leading up to this point, we’ve looked at several answers to Why is Professional Development Important? and we’ve worked through several key things we each need to consider as we set our Professional Development Goals. While that should serve as a reasonable foundation that we can...
