In your leadership, are you a hoarder, a lender or a giver? How you answer that question will go a long way to determining what kind of impact you’ll have. The hoarding leader The hoarding leader is someone who devours leadership learnings, but keeps it all to themselves. Rather than investing their knowledge and experience…
How to Avoid Mistakes in Problem-Solving with 3 Easy Questions
Leaders solve problems. But to become more effective, you likely need to overcome the biggest problem-solving problem in leadership. Sometimes the reason you can’t solve a problem is because you were never supposed to solve it. Wise leaders stare down each challenge that comes across their plate, and before expending an ounce of energy on…
Mastering Silence: 3 Messages Every Leader Should Know
Effective leaders know that the art of communication is as much about listening as it is about talking. But to really master this art, leaders must learn to listen to, and interpret, silence as much as they listen to words. If you’re going to really understand what is happening with your team and with your…
Innovate, Don’t Imitate: 3 Essential Tips to Evade Copy-Cat Leadership
One of the best ways to develop in your leadership is to learn from other leaders. One of the worst ways is to merely copy these great leaders. Growing leaders will read about other great leaders, will seek to discern their leadership traits, even emulate their leadership skills. Copy-cat leaders do little more than mimic…
The Art of Adapting: Staying Fresh in Your Leadership
In leadership, there’s nothing quite like proven, reliable experience. But if you’re not careful, all that experience can slide into nothing more than tired staleness. Effective leaders keep their leadership fresh and positive by developing a way of looking at the world that’s renewing, and hopeful. It’s a counter-intuitive, almost contradictory perspective that prevents reliable…
