Is Your Leadership Living in Joy?
How many of us feel our joy comes from things outside of us? Many of us see joy as the result of being able to do work that we love. We like the people and the company; we love our work. We have issues with the people and the company, and joy flows less freely. Don’t get me wrong; the right environment can help produce joy on the job.
Is Your Leader Like Curious George?
Remember Curious George from the childhood book? Always curious and getting himself into one adventure after another because of his intense curiosity. Curious George took curiosity to an extreme. Yet, he inspires me to think about how curiosity is a necessary and often underrated leadership quality.
The Secret to Accessing Your Natural Leader
We ALL hold ourselves back from our goals. Although we often achieve “results,” we are rarely satisfied. We have checked off the boxes, yet something is usually missing. If our results were obtained at the expense of a relationship, well-being and health, our course is unsustainable.
As a Leader, Do You Know Your “One Big Thing”?
Although we can’t all have a physical structure in the form of a monument or memorial to represent how we led and influenced, we are nevertheless leaving non-physical representations every day.
Leaders who Label May Harm their Effectiveness
Think about how many times a day you get caught up in labeling. We endlessly label our experiences (and sometimes those of others), we label our feelings, moods and thoughts as positive/negative, good/bad, strong/weak, etc. Our brains benefit from our ability to categorize and label; it is a way of accessing the huge amounts of data stored there.