Highly effective leaders have an advanced ability to read the room, to sense what’s going on in the organization and to intuitively know what needs to happen next.And they can do all of this with little to no data and no spreadsheets. This is called Leadership Intelligence, and if you’re going to lead effectively in…
Leading with Clarity: How to Keep Your Team Focused on What Matters Most
As a leader, you likely spend a great deal of time and effort addressing issues of under-performance on your team. But in most cases, the issue that should really be dealt with is that of lack of clarity, not under-performance. Lack of clarity is the all-too common problem that sees members of a team deliver…
Exaggerating Costs You: 4 Reasons to Stay Real
As a leader you must project optimism. But when you cross the line into exaggeration or hyperbole, your leadership is facing significant risks. A leader in my orbit once described a very average meeting we had been in as “Quite possibly our best meeting ever!” The statement was so over-the-top, and so removed from any…
Can Your Team Feel Your Kindness? Surprising Tips for Showing You Care.
“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…
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…
