Here are some very practical action steps that any leader can implement today, or, work on doing more of. Let me know your
ideas.
How Leaders can create a culture of motivating communication | Leadership Cafe.
Archive for culture – Page 9
Does your mood match that task at hand? | LinkedIn.
Here’s a recent Danial Goleman article I think you will like.
Teaching Empathy: The Ancient Way Is Now Cutting-Edge – Forbes.
Here’s a short, but excellent article with some simple steps we can use daily to model, teach and reinforce empathy, as well as links to addtional resources.
Here is a timely article from Tony Schwartz, someone I have been of fan of for many years and leader/founder of “The Energy Project.”
Read on and let me know what YOU think.
Want Productive Employees? Treat Them Like Adults – Tony Schwartz – Harvard Business Review.
Secrets Of America's Happiest Companies | Fast Company.
I’m always interested in this. What can you learn from this research that can make a difference in your workplace?
Also, if you are interested in more, here is the link to a New York Times book review of Anne Kreamer’s book, “It’s Always Personal.”
It’s easy to think of vacation and time off as the best way to increase employee well-being, but, in fact, in the long run, engagement is much more important to an employee’s well-being than the amount of time they have off of work.
The employee that is highly engaged at work, frequently enjoys a blurring of the distinction between work and play, and often finds themselves energized by things that occur at work rather than de-energized or depleted.
In addition, numerous serious research studies have shown that the more often people find themselves in the state of “flow”, (where they are so entirely consumed in what is happening in the moment that they lose all sense of time and of the other activities going on around them), the happier they are.
For Employee Wellbeing, Engagement Trumps Time Off.
Coaching Tip:
Forget about long vacations, and consider what changes you can make to move more in the direction of “I love my work” and “I get a chance to do my best work every day.”
Go for more “flow.”
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Wow! Isn’t this the truth? Consider posting this where you can see it on a regular basis. Happy Friday, everyone!
Success Will Come and Go, But Integrity is Forever – Forbes.
As a coach I am sometimes asked to coach people for reasons that I believe to be inappropriate, and one of them is a lack of integrity. I believe nothing is more important in a leader than integrity….and, that by the time one is an adult their sense of integrity, (or not), is a pretty well-formed part of their personality.
Thnink about the great leaders you have known, Was integrity not a key part of who they were?
Here’s an excellent article from Forbes on delegation…. something many of my clients would like to get better at:
Do Less, Achieve More: The Beauty Of Effective Delegation | Fast Company.
What’s getting in your way with being an effective delegator? Do you see some of yourself here?
(I’d love to hear your thoughts.)
How Transparent it Your Leadership?
5 Powerful Things Happen When A Leader Is Transparent – Forbes.
What do you think of this perspective? Do you agree? There were many comments on this article in Forbes. Let us hear YOUR voice.