Happy New Year! We often greet others with this saying at this time of year. But are you truly happy and excited? Or are you anxious and fearful? The start of a new year is a time of transition. Whether we feel happy or anxious is often attached to what does our time look like […]
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What is your reason for the season? If you work and lead in retail, it can often be just to survive this busy season. For those in education, it is to just get to winter break. For some industries, they look forward to the manufacturing shut-down at the end of the year. For many not-for-profit
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Nancy is a high performing leader. She is known for getting results, and she knows how to win. Her performance review was going well, until her team member’s ratings of her were reviewed. The bottom-line feedback from others was that they did not like working with Nancy. Nancy realized that if she wanted to be
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Would you become a patient at a hospital where the mortality rate was one in ten? You might think that this hospital was dealing with a deadly disease and doing the best they could with a tragic illness. However, this is the statistic that women who were giving birth faced when they came to Vienna’s
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Imagine this scenario with me. A colleague brings to you a report where they have made a mistake. Previously you had suggested they do the report a different way, but they chose to try a new method that didn’t work out. They admit the mistake to you and show how they are going to correct
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“We spend a lot of time teaching leaders what to do. We don’t spend enough time teaching leaders what to stop. Half the leaders I have met don’t need to learn what to do. They need to learn what to stop.” – Peter Drucker When you look at your schedule for the next day, do
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“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you; I came to live out loud.” – Emile Zola One of the joys of being fully present as a transformational leader is the feeling of freedom with the gift of presence. When you know who you are, are taking
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“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.” – Joshua 1:9 One of the greatest benefits of presence is the power that results when you actually do what was revealed to you during your
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In my last series of articles, there has been a theme of developing presence of being an at-rest transformational leader. Below is a list of elements that contribute to developing presence. Know Who You Are You cannot develop presence of transformational leadership until you know who you are. Otherwise you get distracted trying to be
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In my previous article about being an at-rest transformational leader, I provided a transformation grid and discussed that being this type of leader is more of a lifestyle than a formula to follow. Someone wrote me in response to the articles with examples of being an at-rest transformational leader in her own life. This person
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