Posts Tagged ‘responsibility’
The Leadership of Guiding Change
Guiding change is described as managing, mobilizing, understanding, and leading change. It includes knowing how to mitigate consequences, overcome resistance to change, and deal with the reactions that team members may have to that change. Leadership itself IS all about change, not status quo – and guiding change takes some particular insight and care. “They”…
Read MoreHow Responsible Is TOO Responsible?
Responsibility is a spectrum – meaning there’s a line ranging from completely irresponsible all the way to destructive over-responsibility… and all of us are on it somewhere. We all know that personal responsibility is something we start to learn early in life – brush your teeth, make your bed, represent yourself well, be nice to…
Read MoreYour Authenticity Is a Gift
Authenticity is a quality we hear more and more about these days, and it’s become the gold standard for leadership. Robert S. Kaplan, Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School says, “Authenticity is critical to leadership. That means trying to be yourself – this involves some self-disclosure, admitting what you don’t know and…
Read MoreManaging Our Personal Energy In 2022
Our current global circumstances make it very difficult to predict what the year ahead may be like in any way. We don’t know what business trends will look like. We don’t know whether children will stay in school or school online. We don’t know what travel will look like, or when we’ll share time with…
Read MoreHow Stress Makes Us Stupid
Over the past few years, I’ve become more and more of an advocate for decent strategic planning in the lead up to the December break and the flip over of the calendar to the next year. Strategic planning that allows us to consider, download and offload the year we’ve had – processing the lessons, assessing…
Read MoreWhat Is Your Strategy?
Often in life and in business, we don’t have a clear strategy for what we’re trying to achieve. Taking the time out to focus on designing a strategy and discussing it with our team members is something we “don’t have time for”. Discussing what is expected of everyone during an undertaking and asking everyone to…
Read MoreAccountability vs Responsibility
Accountability and responsibility are two words we throw around, often as if they are interchangeable. We ask for them, nay, expect them from those we operate with at work, at home, and in our communities. The key to achieving common ground here is the same as with anything else – communication; except we seldom surround…
Read MoreThis Is Your Captain Speaking
As a small child, I remember looking up to my Father as he donned his uniform to go and fly. He took immense pride in the uniform he wore – there was only one way to tie a tie, and his routine was capped off by lifting each already-shiny shoe onto the side of the…
Read More“How Do We Know If Our People Are Tired?”
This was a question of discussion this past week, and I’m sure is something that many leaders are asking themselves. It’s so much harder to know how your people are doing when they are scattered over Zoom or Teams, and not in your office with you. It’s also super hard to get an honest answer…
Read MoreClosing the Loop Is Your Responsibility
Effective communication is something we all assume we’re doing when we’ve explained our point of view to the degree we’d need to hear it in order to understand. Unfortunately, we all see the world more differently than you’d think, and often, we drop the ball without meaning to because we haven’t taken full responsibility for…
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