Following your intuition is a good thing as long as you understand it. Countless times I ask clients why they make certain decisions or how they solve challenges and very often the answers I get back are akin to, “I don’t know, I just do it. I’ve been doing it for so long I just … Continue reading Two Reasons You Must Understand Your Intuition As a Leader
Great Leaders Never Take a Day Off
It sounds daunting and unrealistic: Great leaders never take a day off! Never taking a day off means burnout, right? It means not keeping things in perspective and not making time for what is important in life, right? It means lying on your deathbed with regrets because you never took a day off, right? If … Continue reading Great Leaders Never Take a Day Off
Want to Be a Great Leader? Take Action!
Leaders take action! Action is a great momentum builder. Once we act it is easier to make progress. So, in a sense, acting is not the hard part. The hard part is where to begin! Where to begin, or start, consists of many things. Before we start to take action we begin thinking about what … Continue reading Want to Be a Great Leader? Take Action!
3 Ways to Improve Your Tech Team
Having worked with technology teams for many years I’ve found the challenges they face are universal. Technology teams tend to see the same challenges whether they are part of a 5-person startup or Fortune 50 company. So, don’t despair, your leadership challenges are not so unique they cannot be easily addressed. Here are 3 ways … Continue reading 3 Ways to Improve Your Tech Team
The Leader193 Way and Young Adults: Find Work!
The first two blogs in this series focused on the first element of the Leader193 Way for young adults: Find Your Breath. This concept represents the ability to acknowledge emotions and act on them consciously. Find Your Breath is the building block for all great leaders and individual performers. If you ignore this part of … Continue reading The Leader193 Way and Young Adults: Find Work!
One Thing to Level Up Your Leadership in 2022
What is one thing you can do to level up your leadership skills in 2022? Well, there are many things you can do to level up your leadership right now and moving into 2022. Unfortunately none of them will be easy. The reason is because great leadership is not easy. In fact, great leadership is … Continue reading One Thing to Level Up Your Leadership in 2022
3 Ways to Identify and Establish the Behaviors Your Team Needs
In The Leader193 Way, Guidelines for Behavior are the equivalent to “Core Values” or whatever other term is used to essentially frame how you, your team, organization, or family will behave. These established behaviors will guide and create the culture you are trying to build. One thing is true of all great organizations: Great organizations … Continue reading 3 Ways to Identify and Establish the Behaviors Your Team Needs
The Leader193 Way and Young Adults: Finding Your Breath to Recognize the Emotion
In our previous post (https://leader193.com/2021/11/30/the-leader-193-way-and-young-adults/) we discussed the importance of recognizing and acknowledging your emotions so you can make conscious decisions on how you want to act on them. If we simply act on our emotions without first acknowledging them then our actions, and our results, will be random. Leaders make conscious decisions on how … Continue reading The Leader193 Way and Young Adults: Finding Your Breath to Recognize the Emotion
The Leader 193 Way and Young Adults
Several years ago, a client of mine, who has been through “The Leader193 Way: Leadership Through Process and Wellness”, asked if kids could benefit from my program. More specifically, his son’s varsity basketball team, which just came off several disappointing seasons. I shared with him that yes, I did believe kids would benefit from The … Continue reading The Leader 193 Way and Young Adults
Leadership Never Takes a Day Off … Not Even on Thanksgiving Day
The holiday season begins and no matter how excited and positive you are about it, there are always stressors to contend with. Sleeping arrangements for family coming into town. Menu items to please everyone. Trying to keep the day’s discussion off politics. Trying to make sure that we spend time talking about what we are … Continue reading Leadership Never Takes a Day Off … Not Even on Thanksgiving Day