Imagine a day (or more) without your phone. What’s your first reaction to this suggestion? If it’s a strong negative reaction, know you’ve become addicted. When I work with teams, I ask for a device-free environment. It’s not always popular, however it does create an environment for maximized success. Try it. See if you can go your phone and devices and notice your experience for the hours or day(s) you are without it. While you’re at it, journal about…
How do you know when your team has said all they need to at a meeting? There’s no meeting after the meeting. None. At all. When covering team health with leadership teams, we work at building trust, embracing and encouraging conflict, ensuring all the members weigh in and say what they need to in order to fully commit, then work hard to challenge each other…
Let go. Looking at what’s between today and tomorrow can make us feel like we have a deficit. We don’t – it’s perceived lack based on what’s possible and that’s a big thing. Looking at what’s between today and our past can make us feel like we’re winning. A healthy balance of both is necessary to keep the equilibrium for a healthy attitude.
Don’t let yourself and your team go on autopilot. I was facilitating a session, and the leaders came in on the second day of their annual planning ready to go. What I mean is, two of them were simmering overnight – and came in disrupted and ready to challenge the rest of the leadership team. I loved it. They challenged the team because they felt…
An extraordinary team is an ordinary team with an extraordinary commitment. The extra refers to their commitment, not the players. Relatively speaking, any team can be extraordinary. To be extraordinary, you must align yourselves, and be resolute in your collective commitment. This means a firm determination, shared by all. When push comes to shove, an extraordinary team will always find a way – even…
It’s simple really, yet so few of us do it. Paying attention to all we procrastinate is an opportunity for delegation. Most leaders are poor at delegation, or at the very least, they delegate the minimal amount at the most commonly understood level. What if you could delegate 80% of all you do to others who were amazingly capable of doing a better job of the task at hand? What…
Are you becoming the person you want to become? The narrative around becoming the best version of yourself is ample these days. How do you get about it? It’s not a series of tactics changing behavior temporarily that empowers this. You won’t read, listen, or watch the secrets to becoming whatever that is for you. Sure, you have to do some introspection and realignment based on your habitual, repeated behaviors. The…
Do you have a structured work week? I do, and most of the time it helps me stay on track, ensure I’m doing all the right things to connect, fulfill my promises, and have enough space for all we couldn’t predict. Mostly, it works. And then, life happens. There are interruptions and changes. Sometimes, it’s challenging to have interruptions – you can set up the ideal conditions for focus…
Sometimes the right setting can inspire the best in you. Do you need the hustle and bustle of people, pets and things happening around you? Are you better in silence with stillness surrounding you? Do you need music? What kind of light? What brings out the best of who you are and how you think? Your environment contributes to the mood, inspiration, and outcomes…
Change is challenging. It’s an undoing. For me, I seem to do mass amounts of change at once; a little at a time doesn’t register my attention. My greatest lessons come from pain, and growth is the outcome. Really, life is an undoing unless you hang on. Letting things do and undo is always occurring. When it’s not, it’s usually because we’re hanging on. Hanging onto ideas, the past, preconceived notions, our expectations, what we believe is right or how we’d prefer…