Turn Your Pain Into Power
Telling it Like it Is Vol 14: Turn Your Pain Into Power
Today's newsletter is about turning your pain into power, developing personal accountability, and finding your own purpose for sustainable success. Are you ready for personal transformation? Here is how you do it
Turn Pain into Power: Change your Mind
Finding Your Formula
Telling it Like it Is Vol 13: Finding Your Formula
There is no standard playbook for effective leadership.
YOU have to craft your own formula, often through trial and error, that resonates with your team AND aligns with your goals. It helps if you have your own personal guiding principles. It matters if you recognize you are working to create a space where your actions help create a community of people on the same path, who care about work AND each other. It matters because: Every team is unique, with its own culture, challenges, and dynamics.
Leading with Accountability
Telling it Like it Is Vol 12: Leading with Humanity and Accountability
We live in a culture of blame and finger pointing, But here's the truth, real leadership is found in personal accountability. Taking responsibility for your actions does not just indicate integrity; it highlights your depth of character.
What if instead of projecting blame, we looked inward and asked:
"How can we do better?"
The Dreaded F-BOMB
Telling it Like it Is Vol 11: The Dreaded F-BOMB
In Leadership one critical responsibility stands stark against the rest: The Dreaded F-BOMB.
Get your head out of the gutter: I am talking about feedback.
Leaders: Your Voice Has a Loud Echo
Telling it Like it Is Vol 10 : Leaders, Your Voice Has A Loud Echo
In every workplace, behind the numbers and beyond the strategies, there is a pulse --- That pulse is the sound of the human endeavor.
Embracing Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Telling it Like it Is Vol 9: Embracing Neurodiversity in the Workplace
Neurodiversity is finally beginning to gain much-deserved recognition and importance in the workplace. Neurodiversity refers to the variation in the human brain regarding sociability, learning, attention, mood, and other mental functions. It includes neurodivergent conditions like autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and others, emphasizing the strengths and unique abilities that these differences bring to a team.
Leading Beyond the Echo of Your Own voice - Are you a last word leader?
Telling it Like it Is Vol 8: Leading Beyond the Echo of Your Own voice. Are you a last word leader?
If you are, you probably are not aware of it. The team knows it. If you are, it's as if you are the director of your own monologue and your team, nodding their heads have learned you need applause, and likely have forgotten their own voices as a form of self-preservation.
A last word leader operates within their own fortress of certainty built on the sands of insecurity. This leader swaps priorities like baseball cards, leaving teams in a constant state of distress, blaming them for lack of execution.
The foundation of high performing teams is trust, and it is built on consistency, transparency, and the ability to listen well.
Transformative Leadership Starts with Trust
Telling it Like it Is Vol 7: Transformative Leadership Starts with Trust
Trust is the foundation for great team effectiveness, but it cannot be dictated, it must grow organically. The most respected leaders are often the ones who are most receptive to this thinking. They build a culture of open dialogue where feedback is a two-way street.
Female Bullies - A Workplace Conundrum
Telling it Like it Is Vol 6: Female Bullies - A Workplace Conundrum
Every day there is a new post about the impact of change and how we need to change systems that hold people back. We hear about toxic leaders who play by old school rules, saying one thing and doing something horrifically different in real life.
Today's post is a nod to Stacey Vanek Smith, Author of Machiavelli for Women: Defend Your Worth, Grow Your Ambition and Win the Workplace. She talks about the different female archetypes of toxic leadership in chapter eight. You may find yourself putting faces to put to these names, and it is my sincere hope that in time, these will fade away and bullying will no longer be a workplace norm. Today we focus on three of her highlighted types.
Strengthening Your Team
Telling it Like it Is Vol 5: Strengthening Your Team
Teams are vulnerable and resilience is important to help navigate through growth, challenge, and uncertainty. Here are some tips for strengthening teams in challenging times. They may seem like a no brainer to you- but these are often forgotten when they matter most.
Navigating a Toxic Work Environment
Telling it Like it Is Vol 4: Navigating a Toxic Work Enviornment
Ever feel like your boss is a cross between a Disney villain and that one relative everyone avoids at family gatherings? Today we are sharing tips that will help you maintain your sense of control, no matter what you're dealing with.
Warning, Reality Check Ahead - Time to Sink this Leader Ship!
Telling it Like it Is Vol 3: Warning-Reality Check Ahead - Time to Sink this Leader Ship!
Friends, put on your life jacket because I am going to dive into the murky waters of BS leadership: a problem of pandemic proportions that is currently driving many of my coaching clients to feel pain and lack of purpose.
Front Line Leader Effectiveness
How Front Line Leaders Prioritize Successful Outcomes for the Team
Unlocking the Power of Humility: Intellectual Humility
Telling it Like it Is Vol 2: Unlocking the Power of Humility & Intellectual Humility.
Walk in Other's Shoes While Keeping Yours on the Ground
Telling it Like it Is Vol 1: Walk in Other's Shoes While Keeping Yours on the Ground