The power of how you communicate as a leader is not limited to the great vision-casting speeches you make. Much of your impact takes place in your day to day conversations.
The starting place for building an effective “dream team” is in having a crystal clear picture of the qualities you want in the people.
In challenging times, leaders are called upon to exhibit inspiring levels of courage. But finding the ways to develop such courage can be a leader’s greatest challenge.
Leaders solve problems. And whatever problem you’re facing, clarifying your thinking is always the first-step to move you towards a solution. Such clarity of thought became something of a lifeline when I encountered a serious problem in a small airport in an impoverished country in east Africa.
Chrismas is here! You can find a vivid picture of how two vital leadership principles can be intertwined by looking at one of the time-honored carols of the season.
Self-leadership requires self-evaluation. Leaders must be able to end their day, look back, and know with certainty whether or not this was a good leadership day.
To introduce significant change, leaders must know when and how to cash in their “change chips”.
What you believe as a leader will ultimately determine who you become as a leader.
Effective leaders know that there are at least 4 often-overlooked disciplines that are essential to well-balanced leadership.
To protect your integrity as a leader, don’t focus only on the big, obvious temptations. Watch out for the subtle deceptions.
If a leader is wracked with insecurity, it won’t simply render them ineffective. It will actually undermine everything they have been attempting to build.While there may be no scientifically verifiable way to know for sure, these self-evaluation questions can give you a pretty good idea.
Here's how passion and discipline combine to create an unstoppable leadership one-two punch.
The secret to sustainable, effective leadership is not only in knowing when to speed up, and when to slow down. More often than you'd think, it’s knowing when to stop.
Leadership legacies are built more on kindness than they are on accomplishments. Kindness is action-oriented, and is an essential component to influencing lasting impact. So, what are the qualities that make up kind leadership?
If everything is an emergency, nothing is an emergency. The truth of this leadership axiom is lost on many leaders who seem to lurch their leadership, and their team, from one panic-riddled crisis to another.
And as we have embraced Zoom meetings as a new reality of our leadership world, we have also seen that such virtual meetings have formed a laboratory of sorts for important leadership principles. Here are four key leadership truths that have been re-enforced by the world of virtual meetings.
You don’t have to guess whether you’re growing as a leader. You can take a simple test to know for sure. Here are three indicators to look for.
Whether or not your new leadership vision will fall flat, or will generate wild fanfare, has less to do with the vision itself, and more to do with how you go about casting the vision.
One of the most important functions of effective leadership is to master the power of perspective.
Each year at Easter, I make it a practice to clearly and openly convey the core place from which my leadership originates.
