What used to be referred to as work-life balance has now merged into a technology enabled “worklife”. Staying connected simultaneously provides freedom to work without location as a limitation and an expectation of nearly always being available to your organization. Even for those of us who truly enjoy the work we do and don’t ...
“We know our actions speak louder than words, but what are we actually saying when we think we are being silent”? When I taught my first undergraduate leadership course as a graduate student nearly two decades ago, one of the first topics we covered was Johari’s Window (Luft & Ingham, 1955). This simple quadrant ...
“It’s not always my job, but it is always my responsibility”. Often one of the first things we say when we meet someone new is to ask (or be asked) “so what do you do”? While we know as a cultural reflex, this mean what do you do for a living or what is ...
“When examining an organization’s structure, the critical question for organizational leaders to ask: Are you serving the structure or is the structure serving you and your organization”? The structure of an organization is so critically integral to how it functions it can sometimes receive more deference that it is due. We can think of examples ...
“There is no microwave version of self-change. You have to commit to it and persist in it”. Feelings and attitudes are not the same thing. To greater or lesser degrees we are all governed by our feelings. While we sometime think of feelings as something we cannot control, we can all think of examples ...
“It’s not how hard you work that qualifies you for a pay raise or promotion, it is how you understand and make known the unique value you bring to your organization that truly matters”. While our primary motivation for the work we do within our organizations is not focused on advancing our careers, organizational leaders ...
“Like an optometrist exam, getting your clearest vision often involves trying on a series of different lenses. Discarding some, keeping and making slight adjustments to others to bring matters into focus”. False dichotomies are named as such because in truth, there is always a continuum in which individual preferences, tendencies and work styles fall. Though ...
“You can never truly grow without first making yourself vulnerable – trusting that the reward of learning will outweigh the risk of rejection” Whether you are in the private or public sector, those of us who work within traditional organizations sometimes think of entrepreneurs as a separate professional species. Entrepreneurs and employees of traditional ...
“A Recommendation is like qualitative data bringing specific, powerful and most key, the perspective of personal experience to your LinkedIn Profile”. Most of us grew up hearing if you don’t have something nice to say, don’t say anything at all. In practice we often don’t say anything at all even when we have nice ...