Conscious Leadership Scenario: You’ve got a big vision for your company (usually established by your Board of Directors), and you’re building a world-class organization by attracting and onboarding one high performer at a time. The heavy lift to get these individuals onto your team seems grueling at times, but you know you can’t leave highContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – When Our Ego Wants to Stop Us From Supporting Someone Leaving Our Team”
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Conscious Leadership – How to Connect with Your Team Through Your Heart
Conscious Leadership Scenario: You’re faced with a turnaround situation in your organization. This troubled department is struggling. The morale in this division is very low. Do you slow down to figure out why the morale is low, and goals aren’t being met, let alone aren’t being set? The teams are just wandering the halls waitingContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – How to Connect with Your Team Through Your Heart”
Conscious Leadership – How Transformational Leaders Get Their Team Back on Track
Conscious Leadership Scenario: About half of new executive transitions are considered failures within two years. But why? I’ve coached hundreds of struggling executives over the years and almost every time their failure is a surprise. The story usually goes something like this: they’ve been high performers their entire careers. As they moved up, they alwaysContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – How Transformational Leaders Get Their Team Back on Track”
Conscious Leadership – How Successful Conscious Leaders Overcome Resistance
Conscious Leadership Scenario: You’re well on the way to achieving your organizational goal through an extremely thought out vision, but something unexpected happens (imagine that). A cost overrun or a production delay. Vendors and Suppliers are confused. Customers become unhappy. Employees start complaining as the problems pile up. Your senior executive leadership team is waiting patientlyContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – How Successful Conscious Leaders Overcome Resistance”
Conscious Leadership – Quick Tools to Get Rid of Toxic Work Cultures
Conscious Leadership Scenario: I’m reminded daily [working within organizations] that there is more than just one pandemic around the globe. The pandemic I don’t think many acknowledge is toxic work cultures. Cultures where employees keep an updated resume in their office drawer/zip file. Fear breeds complicity, not commitment. Instead of fear-based tactics, Transformational Leaders useContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – Quick Tools to Get Rid of Toxic Work Cultures”
Conscious Leadership – PART TWO: You Will Never Be a Great Leader, Here is Why
Conscious Leadership Scenario: PART ONE of why you will never be a great leader addressed the foundation of every great team-absence of trust. Read PART ONE first, if you have not already. Like in many other aspects of life, teamwork comes down to mastering a set of behaviors that are at once theoretically uncomplicated butContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – PART TWO: You Will Never Be a Great Leader, Here is Why”
Conscious Leadership – Do They Follow You Because They Feel Your Heartbeat or Fear Your Sword?
Conscious Leadership Scenario: The Top Transformational leaders ask themselves this question each week, “If I was stripped of my title…” The politics of leadership – the power to punish and reward people. Would they still follow me? Would I still get results from them? Leadership Fail: We can become blinded by our titles, blinded to ourContinue reading “Conscious Leadership – Do They Follow You Because They Feel Your Heartbeat or Fear Your Sword?”