LEADERSHIP BLOG
In times of uncertainty, activating kindness in the workplace can create a necessary shift. We don’t often think about kindness as a leadership strategy. However, right now it could be the most essential strategy you engage with your teams to help them thrive.
A recent gallup poll describes...
What we have in common can be a powerful springboard to meaningful connections. It’s often easier to connect with people who are like us. Similar personality styles, similar values, similar life experiences, or similar interests. The list can go on. The more intersecting points the easier...
Everybody needs friends. One of the most famous questions of the 12 posed by the Gallup Q12 Employee Engagement Survey is “I have a best friend at work.” Many challenged the question as irrelevant. Then, decades worth of research shows that employees with healthy social connections at...
How do we avoid situations where the team talks about each other when there is some underlying conflict or frustration instead of talking to each other?
One of the most challenging aspects of leading your dream team is the human dynamics that emerge in communication, collaboration, or conflict....
"How do you lead well while grieving?"
In leadership you will face a variety of different seasons. Sometimes those seasons can be rough, and we will have to walk through grief while also leading well. That’s the focus of our listener’s question today and I am joined by Dr. Michaela...
"I work for a boss who does not have good boundaries around work and time. He expects me to continually live in crisis mode...responding to his urgent requests. How do I set and keep boundaries in my workplace so I don't sacrifice my family or my own health?"
Our last episode Eric Bailey and ...
"In a small organization how do I manage staff and provide effective leadership with my staff that have turned into friends?"
Why Friendship At Work?
The intersection of management and friendship can be a tricky one. What makes it tricky for you?
Some concerns I have heard in conversations...
We think of encouragement as a “nice to have” thing to lift us up on the bad days and supercharge our good days. What if it is not a “nice to have” but a truly necessary thing that we need? What if we are challenged in scripture to give encouragement daily?
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In recent blogs, we have talked about why practicing empathy in the moment is important and what empathy is not. So, how does developing your empathy add value to how you lead?
Imagine a situation where your team member is not measuring up. They missed a deadline. They blew up at a co-worker or...
Empathy is a powerful emotion that can generate deeper understanding, and it is also an essential skill in every single leadership conversation. The productive dialogue that flows from an empathetic viewpoint offers alternative perspectives, increases productivity and generates buy-in...
Mothers and daughters often don’t see eye to eye. Last week, I had one of those not so fun mother-daughter interactions with my nine year old. She was getting emotional and so was I. However, her emotions were falling out all over the place and mine were tightly held inside.
I...
Being a mentor will cost you something: time, effort, energy. Busy leaders have limited capacity and many things that make demands on that capacity. So, why would you even consider being a mentor?
Some become a mentor because they see the long range impact of developing the next generation of...
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