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How Your Insecurities Affect Your Leadership

I don’t know anyone who’d say they’d want to work for an insecure leader, but how many of us would admit to struggling with our own insecurities… Insecure in...
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Self-Sufficiency Can Be a Hazardous Leadership Trait

Self-sufficiency is something we hold high in our society, and it starts at a young age. As parents, we celebrate each little milestone our children make toward self-sufficiency, from...
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Does Your Team Feel Like a Burden?

Performers hate being burdensome. Most will go out of their way to avoid feeling like they are inconveniencing or saddling their teammates or leader with problems or projects. Yet,...
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6 Mistakes Leaders Under Pressure Make

The pressure to simultaneously produce and lead well. The pressure to serve your leader, your peers, and your teammates while still meeting the needs of your clients. The pressure...
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Fighting the Process

Do you fight the process that you are going through because it’s painful? I had a good example of this happen to me last week. I had a massage. It...
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Are You Competing or Completing?

Here’s a question to reflect on: When you encounter a top performing peer, how do you view them? As a competitor who threatens your position, or as someone who...
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Leading Out of Fear

I had a great conversation with a leader last week. He was discussing his successes as well as his challenges in business, and he shared a great insight that...
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Put Away the Poker Face

Have you ever worked with someone who always left you wondering, “I wonder what he’s thinking?” Approachability is an essential leadership trait, and if your teammates can’t read you,...
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Reserved

Because It’s the Right Thing to Do

You don’t always get to choose who you’ll lead. In fact, more often than not we do not get to choose our colleagues or our fellow volunteers. We rarely...
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Don’t Take it Personal

“Don’t take it personal!” Haha! Isn’t that a statement we’ve ALL said and heard at least a handful of times in our lives? When we’re the ones saying it...
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