Has your lack of humility ever limited your perspective or lessened your influence as a leader? Would you even know if it had? Leaders who fail to demonstrate humility often find themselves leaning toward arrogance and seeking outside validation. They...
For some, shifting into a leader’s mindset is intuitive, something that comes easy. For many others, that shift can take significant time and effort. And be quite humbling. To explain this shift, I use an analogy about running a marathon....
Are you damaging your credibility through too many unfulfilled commitments? Are you a serial over-committer? Everyone’s bandwidth is different in terms of their capacity to take on and execute their commitments with excellence. If you find yourself in the mess...
Do you see every interaction with team members as an opportunity to build confidence and develop potential? Coaching is imperfect and often messy, but also real, relevant, and replicable. Coaching continuously requires a lot of engagement. First, you have to...
When you break a promise, is your first instinct to defend yourself, rationalize, minimize, or ignore it altogether? A colleague and mentor introduced an empowering concept termed “pre-forgiveness.” Essentially, it means: You’re pre-forgiven. You will make mistakes. It’s part of...
How many people on your team are in the right role? Do you need to make adjustments? Building a winning team can be one of your greatest legacies as a leader, but it’s rarely recognized or rewarded in real time....
If paparazzi had followed you last week, would they have seen a balance of activities at work and outside of work? What’s the impact? It’s well understood that, while we openly talk about structuring one’s time and attention to effectively...
It’s a challenge I think everyone faces. People will say, “Oh, I’m sorry to bother you. You’re so busy.” Well I know that person, and they’re as busy as I am. Everybody has things that are pulling at them. I...
Think of a person who had confidence in you and extended trust. Reflect on its ongoing impact. Will you have the same impact on your team members? Trust is one of the most written-about and talked-about topics in the business...
How would your team describe your leadership style when things are stormy? When things are calm? Leaders who carry their own weather exercise emotional discipline and resist the temptation to allow external dramas to distract them. When we’re triggered emotionally,...