Leadership development is a lifelong journey. Hopefully, you have a Leadership Development Plan that you update regularly as you consider the next set of leadership skills you need to add to your repertoire. Here is a list for you to consider from a recent article in Harvard Business Review: 1. Emotional Aperture. Related to Emotional Intelligence, this is all about … [Read more...] about Leadership Skills Checklist
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Disarm Your Stress: Tools to Navigate Life and Work Challenges with Ease
What Is Stress and Its Impact We all experience stress. It’s the feeling we get when things feel overwhelming, out of control, or too much to handle. Maybe it’s a busy day at work or school, a disagreement with a friend or co-worker, worries about the future, politics, or events around the world. Stress isn’t just in our heads. It affects our whole bodies, making it hard … [Read more...] about Disarm Your Stress: Tools to Navigate Life and Work Challenges with Ease
Is it Time for a Career Change?
Is everything going “okay?” Is “okay” good enough? Every now and then it is healthy to take a “time out” and reflect upon our career situation. Is it time for a change? Here are some questions to ask yourself to help answer that question – based on a recent Harvard Business Review article. 1. Reflect over the past three months. *How are you doing? Objectively, … [Read more...] about Is it Time for a Career Change?
Build Your Resilience
As leaders, people watch us much more closely than we realize. We need to be role models of building our resilience so we can encourage others, and they will emulate us. In this way, we are building a resilient team. Here are things we can do to build our resilience. Many of these ideas are from a recent article in Harvard Business Review. *Begin by making this a … [Read more...] about Build Your Resilience
If It Was Impossible to Fail
What Goal would you set? If the proverbial Genie told you that you could set one personal Goal for 2025 and you were guaranteed to be successful, what Goal would you set? Take your time. This is an auspicious moment. And we are not used to thinking this way. We are used to setting incremental goals based on where we are right now. But now you can be … [Read more...] about If It Was Impossible to Fail