Delegate
When you delegate, do projects come back different from what you expected? Don’t burn out trying to fix things after the fact. Instead, do what you can and then ask a team member to take over. When you pass...
Confessions of a First-Level Leader: There’s no Time for 1-on-1s With my Team
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Think Abundantly
Where is scarcity in your thinking impeding the best results? How difficult is it for you to share credit, praise, recognition, or power? Thinking abundantly is essentially the difference between a scarcity mentality (get yours before it’s gone) and an...
Declare Your Intend
Have you ever had incorrect intent ascribed to your actions? Why did that happen? Many think of leadership as a war of political gamesmanship and cutthroat advancement. Such outdated Machiavellian attitudes have evolved into the desire to build cultures...
Demonstrate Humility
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...
How To Think Like A Leader
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....
Make And Keep Commitment
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...
Coach Continuously
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...
Right Wrongs
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...
Place The Right People In The Right Roles
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....