Simple leadership musings from the trenches: motivation
“Motivating” people is unsustainable, if not completely unrealistic for any period of time, or at any true depth. If the motivation comes from an extrinsic place, ie. “I’m going to motivate you” (oy) or “Please motivate me” (yikes), it won’t stick. It may stick for a bit – enough [...]
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Simple leadership musings from the trenches: energy & impact
We’re having an impact in every moment – what that impact is is totally up to us – it is a choice. “They may not remember what you did, they may not remember what you said, but they will always remember how you made them feel.” The [...]
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The quality of our relationships, partnered with our willingness to be real, take risks and be vulnerable, dictates the quality and results of our leadership. Our willingness to be real, take risks and be vulnerable makes us human and relatable. Our care, attention and nuturing of people and relationships makes us worthy of trust and being [...]
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When people think of health, they tend to think of physical and emotional health. Energy, vitality, healthy eating, exercise, etc. are all very important things and something that I’ve been integrating into my leadership work with execs for years. But there’s also the “organizational health” — the health of the whole organization.
Of course there’s the [...]
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I was working with a client today who’s got a vision that would move any man, woman, or child to tears. Truly, no exaggeration. I spent an hour in goose bumps. As we get more into his work and he wishes to take it broader, I’ll likely share a bit more about it, but in the [...]
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“Got milk?” was a phrase that kept running through my head yesterday as I sat in the Breast Health Center going from round to round of exams and checks. It’s always funny to me the silly things I’ll think of, the silly phrases, the silly scenarios in some of the most stressful situations. (Of course, I [...]
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It’s all about the energy. The energy you bring to your life, your leadership, and to your team – physical, emotional, and vibrational - is having an impact at all times. How you use it has a significant impact on your leadership influence, your personal productivity, and the engagement and productivity levels of your team.
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So what will you focus on this year? Are you wearing “boots” or “slippers” in 2010? Now I’m all for a good pair of slippers when needed – I can appreciate chilling out, rest, even laziness, with the best of them – and I believe full heartedly that these all have a place in being [...]
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As I sit in the coffee shop by my office this a.m. – watching the snow storm that simply will not stop…go on…and on…and on…outside - I’m reminded that this weather and the ambiance around it – truly signifies “that time of the year again.” Being a California girl, I have extra sensitivities to this weather – good [...]
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I’m experimenting with posting more frequently on this blog. I want to see how it feels to me to write in shorter, unedited clips, and I want to see what kind of response we get. It’s an interesting thing to write stuff up, hit send, and have the work go out to cyberspace. Every once [...]
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