Communication
How To Have Employee And Team Meetings: Be A Great Leader
Employee engagement, alignment, trust and satisfaction is your number one goal when you are looking to have employee and team meetings. Employee and team meetings don’t need to be long, but they should be professional in nature and still have a relaxed feeling. Meetings should also happen on-schedule and be a priority.
Being A Great Leader Today Takes Hard Work
Being a great leader today has very little to do with being a boss and a great deal about inspiring everyone you work with. It means creating a team out of a group of individuals while still respecting and encouraging their individuality. It impacts every conversation, every email, every meeting, every goal strategy session, every difficult conversation, and every performance review.
Honouring Our Values: Letting Values Be Our Guide During Adversity
When we know our personal and professional values and what they mean to us we can consciously use our values to explore challenging situations. Our values also help us to embrace change and grow. Our values give us clarity and confidence, because getting to know our values allows us to get to know ourselves better.
Great Leaders Create a Culture of Belonging
When employees know they are part of a team and their contribution matters, employees experience amazing mental, physical, and financial health benefits. And there is also benefit to your success as their leader and the company when you create a culture of belonging.
Why Write In First-Person
When writing in first-person my reader often gets stronger feeling of being part of the story, being part of the action. This often builds a strong sense of connection and trust.
What Is Servant Leadership?
Successful leaders accept they don’t have all the answers. New technology, new ways to work, new market conditions, new employee needs and new clients constantly shift our world. Servant leaders embrace this and see this insight as a positive… a superpower that their competition may not (and often do not) have. Servant leaders empower and inspire their employees to bring their whole self to work.
The Best Kind of Belonging
The best kind of belonging is not something others give to us, it comes from within. True belonging is a gift to ourselves. When we 100% belong to ourselves, that is when we are able to belong to a tribe and know we can trust that bond.
The Role of Empathy During Difficult Conversations at Work
Difficult conversations are always uncomfortable for everyone involved because of feelings of stress and fear. Practice empathy every chance you get. Be intentional about practicing empathy in low stress or even very happy times. Feel what it is like to be alert and intentionally mindful of what your are needing, believing and feelings and what others may be needing, believing and feelings.
Empathy at Work During the Covid Pandemic and Moving Forward
Empathy is at the heart of feeling respect for ourselves and others. When we feel respected it meets our individual the need to feel valued for our contribution. There are so many ways to explore empathy both within ourselves and outwardly as we all push through the Covid-19 pandemic.
My 8 Habits of Highly Empathic People
Studying empathy is important because it is what binds us together. Empathy helps build trust and respect. And even when this process is slow, when we strive to understand and trust each other we are more likely to work together to find collaborative, mutually beneficial, Win-Win solutions. The alternative is Win-Lose, and why should we settle for Win-Lose when Win-Win is an option?
How to Practice Empathy at Work
The more experiences we have feeling and learning about emotions the more capable at managing our own emotions and being able to correctly recognize and relate to those emotions in other. As adults it can be a longer process but learning how to be more empathetic starts with recognizing the need and practicing empathy.
The Importance of Empathy at Work
Today great leaders build a company that has the support of their employees and their customers as their primary goal by building an environment based on empathy, trust and shared perspective. Great leaders and great companies help each member of their team embrace purpose while also aligning business goals with individual goals.
When Leaders are Poor Communicators, Who Pays The Price? Part 1
What makes a great leader communicator? A great leader communicator starts with awareness. Studies have shown that in almost every case we will rate ourselves as far greater - or far poorer (more often) communicators than we actually are. This is backed up within Harvard Business Review articles that report 69% of managers are uncomfortable communicating with their employees.
When Leaders are Poor Communicators, Who Pays The Price: Part 2
It’s easy to get busy and see only what is in front of us, but great leaders help their team and team members also stay focused on the big picture. In Part 2 of 'Who Pays The Price', I discuss 5 of my favourite ways leaders can develop effective communication skills and therefor build an inspired, high-performing team who are loyal.
Discuss Values With Your Team
Values provide information about what decisions are right (or wrong) and why, they build a foundation of integrity, trust between people, even when their responsibilities and experiences are very different; this is one reason why it is important to discuss values with your team.
The Importance Of Building A Supportive Company Culture
A healthy, supportive corporate culture is a symbiotic relationship that involves everyone. It grows out of the big and small decisions we make, how we act, what we say, how we say it, how we treat each other and what part we play in our community. The following are opportunities where each of us can contribute to a supportive company culture.
Build A Supportive Company Culture
The following are opportunities for companies, leaders and employees to build and add to a supportive company culture. A healthy, supportive corporate culture is a symbiotic relationship centred around the company’s core values, beliefs, mission and vision. Everyone from the most junior employee to the most senior has a responsibility to support the company culture.
Almost No One Is Born A Great Leader
Today’s leaders need the qualities and skills that unify every team and inspire every individual. Because almost no one is born a great leader, great leaders today are proactive not only with the vision and values of their company and team, they are proactive in their own success and the success of their team members. Here are 3 ways you can avoid being a flawed leader.
5 Email Writing Guidelines To Always Follow
If you follow these five key guidelines you will doing some of the best things to get your email opened, read, understood and answered. You will also save yourself and your readers lots of time as you build a trustworthy reputation.
How Leaders Can Use "The Motivation Myth" by Jeff Haden
When people are inspired by what they have accomplished, this success as Jeff Haden likes to call it in “The Motivation Myth” will give them a rush, and because they like that rush, this is when their internal motivation drive will kick in. As leaders we need to help others feel proud of what they are doing, learning and accomplishing.