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Stop using processes to resolve conflict
As uncomfortable as conflict and emotions are, start by looking for what is true.
Who do you work with?
By allowing others to work with me, it allows for a diversity of knowledge and wisdom.
Who do you hang out with?
When you invest in your people, the payback will be that both you and the team will be hanging out with better people.
People who feel ownership do amazing things
Only once a person chooses to take ownership will great things happen.
Challenge or be challenged – Yes!
It is said, you are only as good as the five people you hang around with the most.
Does your purpose speak to their hearts?
Teams who have a heartfelt sense of purpose are the most successful teams I know.
What response do you want to choose?
Your response to a circumstance is always a choice, even when it doesn’t feel like it.
Include people in your problems, not just your solutions
Don’t bring solutions to your team. Instead, start by sharing the problem and ask for their help in solving it.
Finding a problem can be a challenge
Sometimes to find a solution, all you have to do is to stop looking at the problem.
Do you see what you are learning?
As a leader, I never know what I'm going to learn about myself today. I learn when something scares me. I learn when I take a misstep and create a mess. I also learn, of course, when I have a big success. I am always learning something about myself. While learning is...
Start your meetings by sharing a win
What topics get the most airtime on your team? If you are like a lot of teams, you might be putting the focus on the problems. How often, though, do you talk about all the things you have accomplished? When people do not claim their accomplishments, the brain starts...
Do they know where they are going?
They are going to make up their own story if they don’t know where they are going.
Creativity never happens by force
Creativity happens with acceptance and can never be forced to happen.
Take the time to sit still and listen
It’s amazing how much you can hear in and around you when you sit still.
Live life on purpose
What if we were to stop worrying about the purpose of our lives and live every day on purpose?
Solving problems is heart work
You will solve problems to the extent you hold everyone equally in your heart.
Be mindful how you weild your authority
Wielding your authority will get what you want but at the cost of obligation.
Are you burning yourself out?
The world will keep spinning long after you’re gone. So why are you wearing yourself out for your job?
You don’t have to save the world
You don’t have to save the world. Just do something to make it a little better every day.
Most people never pick up the phone and call
“Most people do not ever pick up the phone. They never ask, and that is what separates the people that do things from the people that just dream about them." — Steve Jobs
Do you trust the people working from home?
When you wonder whether you can trust people working from home, it’s time to question how much you trust your own leadership.
Transformation and familiarity are like oil and water.
Transformation and familiarity are like oil and water. No matter how hard you try, you can’t mix them.
The quality of your relationships
Great leaders don’t let relationships happen by chance.
Where are you dropping anchor?
Are you anchoring others in your thoughts, or letting theirs be heard too?
