“The kindest form of leadership is the truth.” – Jack Welch The problem many leaders have with the concept of kindness is that they think it means to avoid speaking truth, in order to spare someone’s feelings. In fact, speaking the truth is the very essence of kindness. This is not to say that leaders…
Is Too Much Advice Hurting Your Team? Get Builders, Not Just Talkers.
This article is part of my Global Leadership series; Insights from more than a decade of leadership training around the world… As a leader, you will always have voices willing and eager to offer you advice. But if you want to build a winning team, you need team-builders, not just advice-givers.. Team-builders will… Stretch you,…
3 Speech Habits That Scream Insecurity
Just as certain regional accents can reveal where a person is from, there are leadership ways of speaking that can reveal the level of security you possess as a leader. The speaking patterns in leadership are not about accents. They’re about a manner of speaking that just as certainly can pinpoint whether you have a…
Stop Drifting- A Line in the Sand Can Make All the Difference
If your leadership values haven’t caused you some pain or discomfort, they may not be values. They might just be good ideas. A value doesn’t become an integral part of your leadership until you’ve drawn a line in the sand. A line in the sand where your core values intersect with tangible leadership situations. Several…
Why Your Team Needs You to Disappear (Sometimes)
Leadership is about “showing up”; it’s often about leveraging your presence in a room in order to influence, to cast vision, to bring alignment and to build teams. But effective leaders are just as strategic about leveraging their absence in order to move their organizations forward. But here are four types of leadership absences that can…
