Resources
VIDEO: IMMUNITY TO CHANGE
You’ve probably encountered situations where you want to change your behavior, but find it difficult to do so. The “New Year’s Resolution” aka Willpower approach is not what you need, and it doesn’t mean you’re flawed in some way. You just need a new approach to change, which is more about understanding than brute force
ARTICLE: WHEN PROMOTIONS GO WRONG
Promoting from within is great! Unless you take a “sink or swim” approach and don’t support the person in taking on the new, larger scope in their role. In that case, promotion can backfire for you, the person, and the person’s team.
Offering some thoughtful developmental support especially during these first few months will go a long way to increase effectiveness, happiness and outcomes.
VIDEO: HOMEGROWN LEADERS
A lot of my clients are smart, talented contributors who get handed the keys and promoted into management and leadership positions without any/enough formal training.
In this video I reveal the 6 things that most of my clients want help with as they round out their “homegrown” leadership style to be more complete & effective in their roles.
Which of the 6 have you actively worked on & mastered already in your career?
VIDEO: DEEP DIVE ON A LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
The word “leadership” conjures up all manner of thoughts and feelings. Ben Hur was an iconic fighting leader. Whatever religion you follow(ed) had iconic leaders. Fortune and Time put larger than life ‘leaders’ on their covers.
But short of emulating their greatness as best we can, wouldn’t it be helpful to know the 18 research-backed, most effective leadership behaviors? If you knew them, you could immediately do more of them, which would increase your leadership impact and effectiveness.
As a bonus, this model also contains the 11 behavioral traps you might fall into as a leader, and gives you a few clues as to why you might be falling into these traps.
VIDEO: SHIFTING PARADIGMS
When shifting deeply-seated behavior patterns, it’s imperative to get a little ‘distance’ from them.
Using the framework of Paradigms, we can map out and understand how our behavior patterns formed, and see the linkages between our actions, feelings and thoughts.
Once mapped, we can step back and look at the paradigm, instead of being ‘in’ it and subject to it. And from that vantage point, we’re in a position to map a new paradigm, more thoughtfully and consciously than we created the original one.
ARTICLE: KEEPING UP IN TODAY’S FAST-PACED WORLD
It feels like the world around us is accelerating day by day.
If you’re running an out-dated “Operating System” - like the tape deck shown - you’ll be limited in the amount of information you can integrate, and also how quickly you move between ideas.
Fortunately, there is a time tested method developed by a pair of Harvard professors (Kegan & Lahey) that allow you upgrade your internal operating system to the latest available one.
You probably get a new phone every few years … when did you last upgrade your own leadership or life operating system?