The best leaders elevate our standards, ethics and performance by creating opportunities for personal transformation. Source: Giant Leap Consulting, July 2024. Link. There is no more powerful influence on the culture of a workplace than the behavior of its leaders. <The best> leaders model then elevate our standards, ethics, and performance by creating opportunities … [Read more...]
Thriving leadership
Self-leadership is the foundation that qualifies you to lead others. The author shares five tips to strengthen your self-leadership. Source: Giant Leap Consulting, July 2024. Link. At their core, arrogant leaders are fearful leaders which requires exploring what’s driving the fears and working through it. What good have I done today? - Benjamin Franklin’s end-of-day … [Read more...]
Develop an opportunity mindset
We experience fear as displeasure, and we experience excitement as pleasure. It follows that we move toward situations that provide pleasure and we avoid situations that provoke displeasure. Source: Giant Leap Consulting, January 2024. Link. . . . create a field of excitement where employees are more apt to face challenges than shirk them.” INSIGHTS: Consequences are … [Read more...]
You’re capable of courage
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the ability to act despite it. Source: Giant Leap Consulting, June 14, 2023. Link. It is precisely those times when your knees are shaking, when your voice is unsteady, and when your stomach is teeming with rioting butterflies that you are being courageous . . . provided, of course, that you are moving through your … [Read more...]
Introspection is the hard work
The more your leadership power grows, the more strength it will take to harness that power. The surest way to keep hubris at bay is to honor the work required to be a good leader with a continual regimen of honest self-evaluation and deliberate self-development. Source: Giant Leap Consulting, February 9, 2022. Link. Humility is essential to mental and spiritual fitness and … [Read more...]
Zooming as the norm
With more people than ever working remotely, it feels like we’ve been in more meetings than normal in 2020. The desire to sync up with our teams more often when we are all working from our homes makes sense. Source: Giant Leap Consulting, September 9, 2020. Link. That is, start your meetings by making sure everyone on the call understands the Purpose, the Outcomes, and the … [Read more...]