What if you could find the role that was perfect for you – the role that makes you feel energized, excited, engaged, and grateful that this is what you get to do for a living? If getting this role would cost you the investment of a bit of time, wouldContinue Reading
Lately I’ve been sharing Michael Hyatt’s Proficiency/Passion model with a lot of people. It’s a great way to get clarity on why you feel how you do about the day-to-day tasks and responsibilities you have. It also helps us think about the characteristics of the work we really want toContinue Reading
You’ve just came up with a great idea to make things better. It’s super clear in your mind, and it’s obvious that it’s an important change. You put together the details, you roll it out to everyone in your team…only to have them do something completely different, or, nothing atContinue Reading
Empowerment is a catchy word these days. A quick search for ‘employee empowerment’ on the Harvard Business Review site returned over 1500 entries. But what is empowerment? Empowerment is pushing decision-making to where the information is. In L. David Marquet’s book, Turn the Ship Around, he uses the term “control”Continue Reading
What’s your level of leadership? If you’re like me, it’s hard to say unless you have a model to reference. The Ladder of Leadership model comes from the book Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers Into Leaders, by L. David Marquet. There are many ways weContinue Reading
Ever thought about sharing your experiences, knowledge and skills? Or wonder what goes into putting together a weekly blog post, video, or podcast? In the following I’ll share the steps I take to publish my blog, but many of the steps apply to any medium. I hope you will beContinue Reading
Work on your strengths. Work on your weaknesses. So which is it? Are we supposed to work on our strengths, our weaknesses, or both? I definitely see a case for working on our strengths, and on adjacent skills. And, whether the adjacent skills are strengths or weaknesses, doesn’t really matter.Continue Reading
When you hear the word ‘rest’, what do you think of? Sleep? A break from work? Maybe the phrase ‘rest and relaxation’? All of these connotations are important to the renewal of the four dimensions that author Stephen Covey talks about in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Let’sContinue Reading
How do we go about renewing the social/emotional dimension of life that Covey talks about in Habit 7? One way I’ve found to do this is to be around people who value self-growth and Habits 4, 5, and 6, as Covey states that renewing the social/emotional dimension is a practiceContinue Reading
“The single most powerful investment we can ever make in life – investment in ourselves, in the only instrument we have with which to deal with life and to contribute.” Stephen Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People Sharpen the Saw At the start of Habit 7, author StephenContinue Reading