How Well Do You Manage Your Emotional Reactions at Work?
“Why Your Emotions Can Make or Break You as a Leader and What You Can Do About It.” Because emotional reactions at work are so common and so many struggle to interpret, control, and dance around the emotional wildfires, I thought this to be an appropriate blog topic for this week. Automatic, negative responses to […]
Are You Missing Out on a Simple Leadership Tool?
What’s the most underrated and simple tool to improve leadership performance? Sleep. In spite of many, many Americans running on fumes, more folks are coming out of the shadows to admit this important fact: I do not sleep well or enough, and am chronically exhausted at work. What we may not know is how this […]
How Can Leaders Remain Energized and Avoid Depletion?
It’s almost a fact of leadership life. While most leaders enjoy the human and business challenges of leading (much of the time), what I often hear is how exhausting it all can be. Leadership depletion has almost become expected in many circles. Many assume it comes with the territory. A 2017 Gallup survey reports that […]
How Clear is Your Strategic Thinking—Really?
As an executive coach and consultant to entrepreneurial Founders, CEO’s and their teams, one of the most vexing challenges I often observe with clients is a perceived lack of time for strategic thinking. According to an article by Dorie Clark in the Harvard Business Review, “In one survey of 10,000 senior leaders, 97% of them said that […]
What are Your Loudest Leadership Voices?
One question that comes up a lot for my client leaders in mid-life is “what I’ve been doing isn’t working for me any longer, yet I don’t know what or how to change.” The awareness this question brings creates an opening for inquiry—for the individual leader to begin a process of self-reflection. This reflection, if […]