This Labor Day
Today, we’re reminding you of some of the well-being posts we’ve written, to support you in taking good care of YOU.
Thriving After A Layoff
Perhaps this experience will help to point you in the direction of where you’re supposed to go next. You lost this job and that sucks. Now you have the opportunity to get more of what you want out of your next job!
Preparing for a Layoff
Facing the loss of a role that provides a great deal of your identity as well as the means for living, can be very challenging.
More Powerful Questions for Powerful Leadership
We’ve witnessed the power that great questions have to create opportunities for innovation, problem solving, and higher levels of thinking.
Powerful Questions for Powerful Leadership
Today, we’re sharing some of the questions that we’ve found invite higher levels of input and expand critical thinking.
Leading When Bad Things Happen
Leadership, as we define it, is the willingness to influence your world and the willingness to be influenced by your world.
When Bad Things Happen to Good Companies
We have recently been working with the leadership teams of two very different companies where the proverbial sh!t has hit the fan . . . through no fault of their own. A sad fact: Bad things can happen to good companies, which means that bad things can also happen to good people in those companies. Figuring out how to move forward through a crisis is an important act of leadership, one that can help the company come out on the other…
Your Dream Employee – Start with Purpose
Last week we finished up the Your Dream Job series and shared a video synopsis of Daniel H. Pink’s book Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. As you’ll recall, the book summarized the key motivators for most adults as Autonomy, Mastery, and Purpose. In our consulting, we work with leaders to consider these three motivators but in reverse order: Purpose, Mastery, and Autonomy. As we’ve worked with leaders on how to lead using this helpful perspective, we’ve started to coach them on using…
Your Dream Job – Start with Purpose
As we continue our series on your dream job, we’d like to suggest you consider the research cited in Daniel H. Pink’s book, Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us. We know that life is full, and it can be hard to find the time to read a book these days; so, if you’re too busy, we’ve included a 10-minute “Cliff note” YouTube version of it that’s fun to watch and easy to digest. It will forever change how…