Leadership: The No. 1 Thing Holding You Back As A Leader…Servant Leaders are Among the Most Effective & Passionate Leaders Walking the Planet
Leadership isn’t nearly as complex as people make it out to be, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t hard. The big difference between highly effective leaders and those just playing at leadership is often found in their willingness to do what Doesn’t come Naturally or Instinctively. Real leadership begins in the moment you realize leadership […]
Your Career: 13 Things Successful People do Between Jobs…Suppose You were Just Offered a New Job & the Company is Fairly Flexible with Your Start Date
Suppose you were just offered a new job and the company is fairly flexible with your start date. How much time should you take, if any, between gigs? And what should you do with that time? Career and workplace experts suggest taking at least one week off to allow yourself to mentally prepare for this next […]
Leadership: You Got Promoted To Manager & A Coworker Is Mad: Here’s What To Say…The Good Mews is that You can Move Them Past Their Hurt Feelings & Repair the Relationship
Congratulations on getting that big promotion to manager! But, what happens if you had to compete against one or more of your colleagues to win the job? And now they’re mad because you won and they lost? Well, I’ve got bad news and good news. The bad news is that you can’t really control whether […]
How To Change-How You Change: 5 Mental Techniques To Help You Move From ‘Here’ To ‘There’…Quitters Were in a State of Temporary Discomfort & Ceded their Purpose for the Quick Fix of the Moment. They Forgot Their Why for Being at BUD/S in the First Place
Inherent in any personal or organizational change is the mental and emotional faculties to do so. Specifically, the skill and will to look uncertainty in the eye, slap it across the face, and say, “Get outta my way! I got this.” Where does such mental preparation come from? In my coaching experience, I’ve seen clients […]
Leadership: 30 Simple Habits To Help You Work Well With Others…Developing the Right Habits when it Comes to Working with Others will Result in Leadership Opportunities, Higher Pay, & More Rewarding Work
The phrase “Must work well with others” is so commonly found on job descriptions for open positions that it gets ignored almost completely. And yet it’s not simply text placed there to fill space, nor is it an empty request–it’s a threat. If you don’t work well with others, you’re going to get fired. And […]
Leadership: 7 Signs Your Company Has Made It…Here are 7 Signs of Success I’ve Come up With Based on Our Experience at Umbel
How do you know when your company has “made it”? What are the signs that your company/startup has officially become viable? Or your viable company/startup has become a mature company? Or your mature company has become the business you always dreamed it could be? [fusion_builder_container hundred_percent=”yes” overflow=”visible”][fusion_builder_row][fusion_builder_column type=”1_1″ background_position=”left top” background_color=”” border_size=”” border_color=”” border_style=”solid” spacing=”yes” […]
Strategy: How to Get Anything You Want by Asking Better Questions…“If Humans all Stood Around & Asked for Nothing, we Would All Just Die.”
“If can ask questions in the right way, you can get anything you want.” Take that from Michael Roderick, a Broadway producer and founder of ConnectorCon, a conference that helps influencers better connect, and Small Pond, a consultancy that helps people build better careers and lives — all by asking better questions. It’s the art of […]
Leadership: The Leadership Paradox Of Shared Purpose…Having a Stronger Sense of Shared Purpose Reduces Systemic Frustrations People have with Organizations
There is a paradox in how we see ourselves in a collaborative, cooperative world of work. This is a balance within each: our self-image, where we give attention, and what we consider priorities. On the organization side, this is also the balance of centralization versus decentralization, leading versus directing, uniformity versus uniqueness, and, supporting scale […]
Strategy: Seeking Social’s ROI? You’re Missing The Point Entirely…There are More Than 2 Billion People on Social Networks Today, & With the Proliferation of Mobile Technology
Businesses have been obsessively trying to find the ROI of social media, which is the completely wrong approach. Don’t get me wrong—it’s not that you shouldn’t measure the impact of social media; but the measurement should be a business one, not a measure of social alone. Social Media is an enablement tool, not a standalone […]
Strategy: 12 Ways Women Unknowingly Sabotage their Success…Women Suffer Not Only from the Glass Ceiling, But also from What some Call “Sticky-Floor Syndrome.”
Did you think the glass ceiling was a relic of the past? Not so much. Even if there weren’t plenty of statistics to demonstrate continued gender bias in the workplace, the marketplace, and in financing for start-ups, a depressing stories out of Silicon Valley makes it brutally clear just how far we haven’t come. Are you suffering from “sticky-floor syndrome?” Unfortunately, […]