Leadership Lessons – The Golden Rules
This was originally written for a group of K-12 dancers. It has been modified to reflect the business environment. If a group of K-12 students can learn these lessons, others should be able to learn them as well.Learning how to become an effective leader takes time and patience. Leadership involves listening to what others have to say (on both sides) and being able to come up with solutions that are best for your team and/or organization. Leadership should not be self-serving.Sometimes your decisions will be challenged. It’s when you are challenged that you shouldn't allow your emotions to show. If it is an explosive situation and your first instinct is…
How to keep from falling behind, when you are already ahead – STOP
How to keep from falling behind, when you are already ahead – Stop. A lot of us live our lives like this. Meeting deadlines, negotiating deals, setting up operations or systems. Once you are caught up and on track, you still sense a little nagging thought in the back of your mind that says “I gotta keep going”. “I can’t relax”. I’m all caught up, but why do I feel like I’m late? I’m all caught up, but why do I feel like I’m late? Just recently I finished a project that was eating up a lot of my time, and left me feeling on the edge of my seat. If I finished the project early, someone would…
Is Effective Leadership missing in the Equation?
Is Effective Leadership missing in the Equation? I was reading an article this morning from Harvard Business School called American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do. It was cute, to the point, but had one thing I thought that was missing. Effective leadership was missing from the equation. Effective leadership was missing from the equation This is the type of topic that authors write about. You find one disgruntled employee who had a manager or supervisor who turned out to be the devil him or herself, and you have a story. How that story is spun will determine the type of outcome you will have. I know the…
Leadership Quiz Night
Leadership Quiz Night! Leadership, social media, community outreach, research, and training, they all mean very different things to different people. What I have learned is that you need to be able to show your work. In a job interview, that can become a very interesting prospect to have thrown at you – unaware. It’s those little questions…. Show your work Show me leadership. Tell me how you perform community outreach. How many hours a day do you work in social media? How many social media applications can you link? What is content marketing for social media? While doing research did you actively engage in experimentation that provided you with factual data that could be…
Disclosure – Vulnerable or Vindictive
Disclosure – Vulnerable or Vindictive. Focus on the chart above for a minute. Take in what it is asking you to do. Based on what you see in this decision process – which way do you anticipate you will decide to go? Will you say something or not? Is the disclosure (or non-disclosure)- vulnerable or vindictive? Now ask yourself one more question. Did you arrive at a pre-conceived conclusion that the answer to this diagram, based only on what you see, indicates you should choose to move to the left in your decision process? Maybe the red terminator button that is partially hidden on the right suggested to you that…
