Leaders need to be masterful communicators. How you communicate is crucial to your success and influence. We can’t lead alone. When you speak as a leader, it becomes easy to magnetize team, new possibilities and even other leaders to help you fulfill your mission.
Having been a pretty seriously academic and analytical person for most of my life, claiming my creative muse in the past few years has been a delight and a revelation. Embracing my innate creativity has helped me learn how to “go with the flow” instead of sticking to rigid agendas.
Clutter.We all have it, to varying degrees. If you look around your home or office, chances are you’re dealing with clutter of some kind. We use clothes, possessions, knowledge and relationships as a way to define who we are in the world.
Decisive action is critical to creating brilliant success. In time of great change, opportunity and creativity, one of the biggest blocks to building momentum and impact is indecision. Let this be the year that you take a stand for yourself and your brilliance. Jump down off the fence of indecision and make a choice.
What do you do when you run out of steam?
It happens to all of us at one time or another. Sometimes it happens a LOT.
Sometimes there’s a definite shock to your energetic ecosystem that ripples out and affects how you view every dang thing in your life. It could be a health crisis, a divorce, a sudden loss.
Every day it seems I meet someone or hear of someone who feels like their world has suddenly turned upside down. Amazing people losing their beloved partners to illness. The exciting new program launch that doesn’t pan out.
Being part of a community theater group for several months has been an opportunity to stretch out of my comfort zone. The “Dancing Queen” musical took months of rehearsal, learning our lines and choreography. The production saw 30 people, most of whom I didn’t know (with the exception of my daughter, who is in the show with me), go from being friendly strangers to being encouraging team members and inspirations to one another.
Leadership is about having impact. Building a business is about being able to move people. Building a meaningful and joy-filled life is about finding the courage within yourself to go for what you truly want.
One of the most potent and impactful experiences I find is live theater. There are a lot of leadership lessons that translate from the stage actor to the business leader or empowered architect of your life.
The year 2020 continues to unfold in challenging and disruptive ways. We’re really in a great collective turning point, and it’s not yet clear how this sci-fi movie we seem to be living in will turn out. One thing I’m noticing in my client work, and in my own work flow, is the battle we are having with being distracted.
There are a number of crucial issues that are forcing us to revisit and redesign how we work, such as the pandemic, the important dialogue about anti-racism, and climate change, to name just a few. All of us up a variety of learning curves, where we need to come up with new skills and strategies to figure out how to deal with challenges.
5 minutes. 7 questions. Find out where you are and where you need to be leading from.