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Do You? Do you appreciate your team? Do they know? Remove all doubt! A few ideas to get you started: Thank them for the contribution their work makes to the overall mission. Acknowledge the time and effort they put in. Highlight the specific ways they personally make a difference. Mention the visible progress they are [...]
Have You Been There? You’re at your desk, head pounding, anxiety gnawing deep in your gut. The email you just received stares back at you from the screen and you: Worry that the problem in front of you is too big. Are fearful that you’ve screwed up and there’s no saving it. Are anxious that [...]
Choosing to lead is an act of courage and compassion. I’m not talking about changing the words that follow your name on a business card. I’m talking about true leadership: serving your team, investing in them, and influencing a group of people to come together and do something greater than they imagined individually. This kind [...]
What He Didn’t Say This weekend I had the privilege of meeting John Miller, the author of QBQ: The Question Behind the Question. John writes and speaks about one thing: personal accountability. If you’ve never read his work, I would encourage you to do yourself a favor and pick up QBQ today. It is brief, [...]
Photo by Mrskyce In the spirit of the season, here are five posts from 2011 which I believe you will find helpful. 1. Prepare Today This powerful guest post from Wally Bock is poignant on two different levels. First, it is a guest post for leadership blogger Dan Rockwell who recently suffered a terrible accident [...]
Photo by David Blumenkrantz Thank You Thank you for reading. Thank you for your shares, retweets, +1s, and emailing these posts on to others. Thank you for leading – for the difference you are making in someone else’s life. Gratitude I frequently write about the role of gratitude in effective leadership. We need the [...]
Photo by kanko Every day aspiring leaders have multiple chances to increase their influence, but these opportunities are often ignored. These vital missed chances speak volumes about the leader and their sense of entitlement or ignorance of others. It can be an epidemic of lost leadership! You can reverse the trend and increase your influence [...]
Photo by HuNo I recently spent time with a group of nonprofit leaders discussing a wide variety of issues relevant to the sector. When I reviewed their written evaluations of our time together, I was surprised at the frequency with which one concept was mentioned as their most valuable take-away. The prized concept of the [...]
Photo by Eric Pakurar Why Didn’t Anyone Tell Me? I was sitting with a leader who had just crashed and burned. He’d made a decision that had cost him his reputation and maybe his job. The sad part was that it didn’t have to happen this way. People in his organization knew it wasn’t a [...]
