The festive season is over, family and friends are hunkering down into their own lives, the seasonal spend is showing in the credit card bills and the seasonal overconsumption is evident on the scale. Or are you just having a low energy, low motivation week, or two? The January blues is a temporary state of …
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What should you reflect on as the year draws to a close? It’s easiest to reflect on things that we can clearly measure, like money. How is our balance sheet now versus on January 1st? We can all do this for our business, and for our personal finances as well. But is there more that …
79% of employees who quit their jobs do so because of a lack of appreciation. That’s a huge amount of employees your company may be losing over a fixable issue. This lack of appreciation often stems from a lack of good leadership skills from their managers. To fix this, companies should make leadership training and development …
If your company is going to grab success and hold onto it, you need your executives to perform at a high level. Effective leaders are at the heart of every successful company, whether you’re running a small retail shop or a large automotive manufacturing plant. There’s always a trickle-down effect from executives down to entry-level …
Great leadership is not measured or observed in the intentions of the leader but in its impact. It is all about how the leader is experienced. Great leadership is a continuous exercise in self-discovery and developing high-quality relationships with those around you. So, if you have been following along the previous few blogs about being …
Recently we discussed conducting an audit of your leadership strengths and challenges, and where you sit on the leadership maturity scale. With that background work in place let’s take a deeper dive into mapping out your leadership development plan. Since your life and leadership are too important to accept mediocre or short-term results, it is …
Determine Where You Want to Be, and Where to Focus Your Development First Read More »
What do we mean by psychological transition and your leadership? Like any learned and practiced skillset, leadership is expressed differently by seasoned and trained veterans versus new leaders; often defined as leadership maturity. To be clear, time and experience do not always align with leadership maturity, as it takes focused effort and application to reach …
In the previous chapter, we talked about people having various identities based on their life roles, at various moments in time. Many of those roles are developed organically over time. Many will also benefit from a deliberate take on whom you want to be in that role, how you want others to experience you in …
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Stepping onto the proverbial podium, away from the First Violin – the role of the leader changes fundamentally and to the core. As Simon Sinek puts it so very eloquently – “A leader is not in charge but has to take care of the people in his/her charge; a leader is not responsible for results, …
Today we begin an extended series on leadership providing bite size elements that deserve focused thought by all leaders. We all play multiple roles in our lives – child, sibling, spouse, parent, friend, hockey player, hunter, truck driver, handyman etc. We were not born into all these roles, well, maybe only two. Once a person …
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