Is it the job of a leader to motivate his or her team? No, but there is a lot a leader can do to help the members of his or her team find motivation within themselves. 8 Ways to Increase Motivation.
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Vulnerability in leadership is being talked about a lot these days. And in many cases, it is still viewed as something to be avoided. Vulnerability done correctly can be a leader’s best friend.
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I notice in antique stores how something that looks like a piece of junk can take on a completely different appearance when the person offering the junk puts a story with it.
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It feels good to be in a room where people think you are the smartest one there. Unfortunately, when this happens the collective intelligence of the room goes down.
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Awareness that there is a next level in your area of expertise or career path is one thing, determining what the next level looks like for you can be more complicated.
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While recognition is great, recognition by itself is not enough. Recognition is generally about someone’s job performance and not about the value of the person.
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A picnic table to the upper deck…It’s easy as a leader to become so consumed with the business or with your own world that we fail to lift our eyes to see what’s going on with others.
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If you are a leader desiring to increase your leadership influence and increase employee engagement, then one way to do that is to be “hanging around the hoop”. What does that look like for leaders?
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If you hope to lead a team of leaders, it is important to develop a strategy for communication, execution, measurement, and accountability. I developed a 4-Phase approach that has served me well for years.
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If you want to make more friends and influence more people, you need to improve your communication skills so that others are drawn to you.
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People are watching you. Your standard of performance, whether high or low, is already being communicated to those on your team.
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Teaching is about you. Coaching is about others. And telling, well telling is about short-term action with limited results.
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Are you working on your highest priority activities right now, or are you being pulled away by those very noisy urgencies that always seem to be there?
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It’s easy to talk about what we value and how we are going to live our lives, but our behavior tells the real story.
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It’s called the Intention/Perception Gap and it happens in almost every communication to one degree or another. What you intended one way was perceived another. It is the cause of the majority of our communication issues with others.
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