Category: <span>Management</span>

Category: Management

Leadership, Management

Adaptive Leadership Requires Flexibility!

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Adaptive Leadership Adaptive Leadership is key right now with our uncertain environment worldwide. Your way of being as a leader must be intentional. Your people are watching everything you say and do and the energy you are emanating. Now is the time to become an Adaptive Leader. I refer to this in my 5 Languages of Leadership workshop as The Leader Star.  I am reading a great book, “Flex, The Art & Science of Leadership in a Changing World”, by Jeffrey Hull, PhD.  This book talks about two primary leadership styles, Alpha and Beta. Both of these styles are important, and the leader of today must be adaptive to the circumstances, the environment and our staff member’s needs. Hull talks about a model called F.I.E.R.C. E. (Flexibility, Intentionality, Emotional Intelligence, Realness, Collaboration and Engagement.) Check out this book – I highly recommend it! CLICK HERE for the link. The Leader Star The Leader Star is an adaptive leader.  They are able to assess/analyze circumstances, environments and people and quickly adapt to what is needed in that moment to solve a problem, prevent a catastrophe, and shift people’s mindsets and engagement to get the job done. At the same time, they …

Coaching, Leadership, Management, Self Improvement

How Accountability and Resilience are Connected

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I recently had a conversation with a client which generated a leadership AHA! about how accountability and resilience are connected.  In this situation, a millennial was involved.  He had been working for a year with this organization, and his manager had had 18 conversations about performance issues with this person.  Several of these challenges created liability issues for the organization, customer service failures, and employee morale issues for the people they work with and serve.   The situation became more complicated because this person was friends with the owner of the company.  Lots of challenges here! Millennials What Do Millennials Want? Millennials.  There have been lots of conversations, complaints, discussions and challenges stated about Millennials in the workplace.  Simon Sinek states in his famous You Tube, “BEST SPEECH EVER – Simon Sinek on Millennials in the Workplace”, with more than 2.5 million views: “Millennials, born approximately 1984 and after, are tough to manage and accused of being entitled, and narcissistic, self-interested, unfocused, lazy.  But entitled is a big one.  Because they have confounded leaders so much, they have asked of Millennials, ‘what do you want?’  Millennials are saying, ‘We want to work in a place with a purpose. We want to …

Leadership, Management, Mindfulness

Shifting Our Mindset

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7 Ways to Shift your Mindset as a Leader Shifting our mindset from “how does this impact me” to “what is the greater good for the greatest number of people” is not an easy shift!  It takes time for most to let go of old and outworn beliefs and thoughts and replace them with new life-affirming mindsets. But this kind of change can have a great impact on the organization as a whole.  For leaders of the future, the following seven shifts may be good places to start in the workplace. Shifting our Attention:  From and To 1.  Sickness to Well-being Concentrate and invest in physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual well-being.  How many people are well and have true life balance? Celebrate wellness, and set targets around well-being.   Focusing attention and energy upon absence and sickness means it is created and prolonged.  Focus on what we want to create consciously, a culture of Well-Being, personally and professionally. 2.  Scarcity to Abundance Instead of cutting costs, settling for second best, or laying off employees, develop possibilities of generating ways to grow and increase wealth. Be generous and don’t allow FEAR or guilt about finances be the decision-maker.  Think through changes strategically and …