Let’s face it, leaders have plenty of stress. But it’s how we recover and how often that makes or breaks our effectiveness. And us!
This is a two-way shift.
We have to go back and forth between stress and recovery. And they can both provide an essential opportunity for...
An article from Forbes.com called Promoting Wrong People Hurts Employee Retention and Productivity opens by stating “Managers are key to employee retention and productivity. But many companies don’t promote into management the people who would do the best job as managers.” ...
Leaders face problems every day. Some are mere challenges to overcome and be better for it. Many times they are problems to be appreciated and solved. As leaders, we know solving problems is a skill we need to continually hone and develop because there will always be a...
The definition of opportunity from the Oxford dictionary goes like this: a set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something.
Going back to my (Cindy) message titled, Defining Moments, Pivotal Decisions, we are reminded our character and values will be revealed as we...
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. ...
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...
We’ve recently looked at the importance of recruitment and retention and we’ve dug into some key recruitment and retention strategies. Since much of that was focused on how much getting good at retaining great people can eliminate much of the pressure to fill a position with nearly...
Leaders face problems everyday. Some are mere challenges to overcome and be better for it. Many times they are problems to be appreciated and solved. As leaders, we know solving problems is a skill we need to continually hone and develop because there will always be a...
We have all been through painful experiences and will go through more. They seem to be an inevitable part of life but also offer some of our best opportunities to learn. The question is not will we go through painful experiences but will we grow through them.
Since the Law of Pain tells us, Good...
If you have a good idea of your strength areas and the areas you're not as strong in, you would do good to assess your interest and opportunities. If you'd like to discuss strengths and weaknesses we can do that to!
Knowing yourself isn't necessarily easy for everyone. It can be a process but the...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on July 9, 2020.
Napoleon Hill once said, “I have also discovered that there comes with every experience of temporary defeat, and every failure and every form of adversity, the seed of an equivalent benefit. Mind you, I did not say the full...
Originally shared in A Daily Dose Of Leadership on July 7, 2020.
In a recent Leading At The Next Level lesson called Different Name, Same Challenge, we took a look at how easy it can really be for any of us to get overwhelmed by fears or concerns when everything we see and hear from the media...
