When was the last time someone shut down a failing project?
When shutting down a troubled project is career-limiting in a company, then there are more significant problems in the culture than a failing project.
Be careful what you ask for – you might get it
Use plain language when you encourage, coach, and mentor people as they go after a great outcome.
How full is your schedule?
A leader with a jammed-packed schedule will become the bottleneck for their team.
What if people never challenge your ideas?
If people never challenge your ideas, it's unlikely that you're doing much leading.
Stay true to you
Don’t let loneliness cause you to violate your values.
The power of personal accountability
When you’re personally accountable, you take ownership of situations that you’re involved in. The kind of personal accountability that coaching and agile make possible. The kind of accountability that moves us away from blame and shame and toward learning and improvement.
Join Lyssa Adkins and me as we explore the power and impact of personal accountability.
How do you handle a failure?
What if every failure is what was meant to happen? Knowing this can make it harder to beat yourself up over it.
Are you giving feedback or criticism?
"Check your feedback and ask, are you coming from a place of making the other person either good or bad or right or wrong? Then you’re giving criticism, not feedback." –Christopher Avery
Finding freedom when there’s chaos all around you
https://www.youtube.com/embed/5Gisl38OjWY It's easy and normal to get stuck when there's chaos all around you. From that chaos, you start telling yourself a story that keeps you from moving forward. In this video, I'll share a simple approach to getting you, or...
Do you want to improve someone’s motivation?
Do you want to improve someone’s motivation? Ask people to tell you about the thing they did that was so awesome. Telling the story will remind them just how awesome they are.
