Leadership

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Dr. Bill Howatt , Founder and CEO Howatt HR. The mark of a good leader is defined by how you show up each day, respond to stressful challenges and behave in good and challenging times. It plays a significant role in shaping your leadership brand along with your talents, knowledge and ability to communicate both verbally and nonverbally. Employees want leaders with whom they feel safe emotionally so they can work and share their ideas comfortably. As a leader, you're defined by every interaction related to your readiness to lead and deal with challenges and opportunities as they occur. Understanding your leadership identity begins with how you view yourself and how you show up to work each day regarding your attitude, mindset and mental and physical energy. The 5 Components Of A Leader's Identity What is your leadership identity? Do you have a thoughtful answer or understand its link to why becoming a … [Read more...] about Your Leadership Identity Matters

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Dr. Gregory Stebbins is the Founder and Master Coach at PeopleSavvy. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. While working to become a self-aware leader, one of the inquiries we need to explore is our leadership identity. As leaders, we create, promote or allow our leadership identity to take shape. While we grow as a leader, our initial identity will act as a foundation. Subtle changes take place over time as we experience life events that we might categorize as wins or losses. How many of us have ever said to ourselves, “Well, I’ll never do that again,” and then repeated the action? If so, it’s time to grow our self-awareness. If we choose not to take the time to develop our self-awareness, we might have an event that shakes the roots of our leadership identity. These events can be emotional, employment-related or involve family life. Echoes of this shaking may cause us to reorder our … [Read more...] about Transcending The Layers Of Leadership Identity

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Executive Leadership and Team Coach with Executive Coaching Space . In the past, numerous organizations would bring in a coach to "fix" a leader. The leader would be asked to focus on certain competencies that the company felt were deficient, such as their ability to communicate or delegate or their overall executive presence, among other areas. Today, coaching has become more widely received as a benefit for new or established successful leaders to continually develop their skills so they can become more effective leaders and build high-performing teams. With this rise in the popularity of coaching, several organizations have created internal coaching teams that provide this service to their employees. Leaders now have a choice within these companies to work with the coaches on staff or to continue to hire an external coach—most likely paying the cost themselves. How can you determine if you should work … [Read more...] about Should You Work With An Internal Or External Leadership Coach?

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Professional coaches have seen it all when it comes to executive clients, from those who found fast success with their businesses to those whose missteps took their businesses in the wrong direction. Each of these issues served as a learning opportunity for executive clients—and their coaches. Below, Forbes Coaches Council members share key leadership lessons they’ve gleaned from coaching executive clients. Read on for advice on how brand-new leaders can avoid making some of the same mistakes these coaches have seen their clients make in the past. 1. Facilitation Is Powerful, But It Takes Time One lesson I learned as a coach is the power of facilitation. It comes at the expense of time, and many new leaders don’t want to invest time to facilitate. Being overly prescriptive leads to ineffective delegation and trust issues. Learn how to actively listen, use open-ended questions and facilitate conversations to lead … [Read more...] about 14 Executive Coaches Share Leadership Lessons For New Leaders

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin The Super Bowl matchup is set, and every possible storyline is breaking news. Can Patrick Mahomes, the Kansas City Chiefs' quarterback, continue to win with his sprained ankle and limited mobility? Which brother, Philadelphia Eagles' Jason Kelce or Chiefs' Travis Kelce, gets the last laugh in the first Super Bowl matchup that features siblings playing on opposing teams? Furthermore, the most compelling story may not involve any of the players. All eyes should be on the two men wearing the headsets on the sidelines: Head coaches Andy Reid of Kansas City and Nick Sirianni of Philadelphia. One of the oldest coaches in the NFL, Reid is concluding his 10th year at the helm of the Chiefs. In this results-oriented league, a head coach staying with one team for a decade is nearly unheard of. And yet, this isn't even his longest tenure in the position. Fourteen years before his time in the Midwest, Reid was on the East Coast, … [Read more...] about The Parallel Leadership Philosophies Of Super Bowl Coaches Sirianni And Reid

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Let’s once again look at “leaders” and “leadership.” Let’s laugh and cry together. Let’s look at failed leaders and how they’re so incompetent, rich and delusional. I’ve seen so many of them in my career. So have you. Many of these horrible leaders are incredibly well-paid to just leave. But there’s purpose here. Bad-leader-identification-skills are necessary if you’re going to plan work-arounds for survival. So here are some clues for spotting the bad ones (as if you needed more help). Leading with Titles I’ve discussed this before , but there’s still so much to say. How many “leaders” have you seen that exhibit no leadership qualities except their titles? Put another way, if they didn’t have their titles would they still be leaders? Without their titles, would they even be taken seriously? You know exactly what I’m talking about. Please don’t ask me to name names; I won’t ask you either. I’ve traveled … [Read more...] about Leadership In The Trenches. After All The Off-Sites, Platitudes, Lunches & Tweets, What Do You Have?

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Patrick Riccards is CEO of the Driving Force Institute , a non-profit focused on transforming the teaching and learning of American History. Too often, we seek to portray nonprofit leaders as superheroes—individuals who were born to do nothing but good deeds, possessing the DNA that equips them with the ability, moral conviction, courage and mission to perform the heroic actions necessary to change the world and help their fellow human beings. If we are to learn anything from the past year—from lessons offered by everyone from Taylor Swift to Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam —perhaps what we really should be seeking today is the antihero. To bring about the lasting change needed in today’s complex times, we need complex leaders who will do what it takes to do the right thing, even if their actions may be a bit flawed. We need leaders who have good intentions but are flawed as human beings. We need leaders who … [Read more...] about Why We Need More ‘Antihero’ Nonprofit Leaders

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Jessica Kriegel, Chief Scientist of Workplace Culture, Culture Partners . Rituals are an important part of who we are as humans. When people attend religious ceremonies, celebrate a birthday or cook Thanksgiving dinner, we are engaged in rituals. These gatherings are opportunities to pause the day-to-day hustle and bustle of life and be present for a moment as we engage in something special. A ritual is a marker of appreciation, contemplation and presence. In the workplace, rituals are especially important to company culture because they help everyone in the organization feel that sense of belonging. When leaders ritualize certain experiences, they diminish the likelihood that work feels like a constant grind. A Harvard Business School study indicated that ritualized group bonding activities “led to a 16 percent increase in how meaningful employees judged their work to be.” Interestingly enough, these … [Read more...] about Creating Meaning At Work Through Rituals

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Sara Ratner, President of Government Programs, Nomi Health . Last January, I published "10 Maxims To Take To Heart In 2022" — a collection of advice that resonated with me over the years, coupled with my own lived experience. Many in my network asked me to share a new list this year. As we begin 2023, I am reflecting on last year’s insights, events and conversations. In this article, I've created another list for fellow business leaders to contemplate. 1. Play the long game. Missed expectations and disappointments are unavoidable. In the moment, it’s human nature to focus on the one goal that wasn’t achieved and to lose sight of the big picture, rather than considering the relative proportional impact on overall long-term success. Colleges must decline many qualified students, but those same students go on to achieve amazing things at other institutions. Organizations must reject job applicants, most … [Read more...] about Ten Maxims To Take To Heart For 2023

Share to Twitter Share to Linkedin Thomas Lim is the COO of Technicorum Holdings, a Web 3.0 Coach & Dean with Thrive Consulting and Master Trainer: PEARLS Coaching Framework. The key trends in 2022 have set the world up for a highly disruptive operating environment in 2023. Massive changes are on the horizon, and organizations will face rough seas in steering their teams through social and technological challenges. What storms await the ship’s captain, and how might one sail through them and emerge stronger? Companies may want to focus their energies on the mega disruptive forces of Web3, ESG and DEI. The Web3 Disruptor Be it the metaverse, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) or SocialFi platforms, decentralization will be a huge wave in 2023. Organizations must embrace change and innovation like never before. Linking the business and technical aspects of a new technological offering like virtual reality for the metaverse will present … [Read more...] about Key Strategies For Navigating The Top Organization Disruptors In 2023