When did you notice that your involvement with a person, a work team, an interest group, a non-profit project team, a community start to fade? Were they making the decision to reach out to you and others? Some people immediately pick up that the core leader or team isn’t thinking about its members and start […]
What is said in the meetings you attend? Are there questions and discussions that open up discussion or do they lead to a frantic look at the clock? Try intentional questions, those that lead with a purpose. Questions done right lead to exploration and possibilities. When you feel the room isn’t using the power of the minds […]
Look around at work. You might see others just going through the motions of meeting their performance objectives. They might think if they sit straighter in their chair, hide their screen time and look interested, they will have a change in their results. Exercise goals at the beginning of the year are set with a […]
What you do goes to support what you want or what you don’t want to be? Often others will put all of their focus in to things that don’t serve them. Instead of living into a dream, the person ends up using all of their time, talent and treasure living into what they don’t want […]
Do you find it easy to get sidetracked at work or the scope of a project starts to expand? You might then wonder where the day has gone. It has been said where your focus goes, your energy goes. Your success is directly tied to what you do. Are you working on what is meaningful […]
In getting to know people new to you, you seek as much information about them as you can get in that first opportunity. People desire to get comfortable with others and build a connection. People getting to success faster than others work on building trust faster than others. What are you doing today to build […]
Being successful in areas of responsibility whether at work or in the family requires something special. It requires going beyond just being, just attending to the myriad of things in your day. It requires focusing on higher things. Things that make a difference in the world of those that are impacted by you, like your […]
The song goes: “When you’re down and troubled, and nothing is going right…” Are you seeing someone down and needing a friend? Maybe you don’t really know if they are. Be kind. Today, we are living full throttle. We past people like highway road markers seemingly connected one to the next. Taking a moment to […]
Each day we are faced with choices on whether to display vulnerability without apology, to be a model of humanness. One element as a leader is to recognize the imperfectness of your nature. It isn’t an easy thing to do given the expectations you place on yourself to be some perfect person. In this struggle […]
Have you said to yourself or someone else, “I need to get this perfect before _“? It might have been a test, a project, a painting, dinner. Maybe a presentation or speech. What happens? You put an expectation onto yourself that nothing less than something with zero error will do. There becomes a confusion between […]
