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Purpose Driven Leadership: Energy and Creative Flow
Having a purpose provides context for all of one’s efforts, and it’s a chief criterion for “flow” - the energy state that occurs when one’s mind, body, and entire being are committed to the task at hand. Flow turns mundane work into completely absorbing experiences,...
Purpose Driven Leadership: Finding Fulfillment
Is Your Work Fulfilling? In a company without purpose, people have only a vague idea of what they’re supposed to do. There’s always activity and busyness, but it’s often frenetic, disorganized, and focused solely on short-term goals. There’s a lack of direction and...
Purpose Driven Leadership: Why Are You Here?
"Knowing why you’re here, and who you want to be, isn’t a part-time job. The challenge is to live out what you stand for, intentionally, in every moment." - Tony Schwartz, Author Far from being touchy-feely concepts touted by motivational speakers, purpose and values...
The Art of Feedback: How to Give Effective Feedback
In our last blog post we looked at the importance of positive feedback – people are more open to receiving and processing negative feedback when they are used to regularly receiving plenty of positive feedback for big and small things. This week we’ll be giving you...
The Art of Feedback: Positive vs. Negative
In our last blog post we explored the critical importance of feedback within any relationship, but particularly within an organization. Feedback is every organization’s lifeblood - the mechanism that lets people know whether they’re doing a good job or if their...
The Art of Feedback
“Getting people to welcome feedback was the hardest thing I ever had to do as an educator.” - Professor Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture Everything is connected today. We need to collaborate with others to succeed in our relationships, life, and work. For that, we need...
The Quest for Leadership Purpose: How to Find Your Purpose
Finding your leadership purpose is not easy. If it were, we’d all know exactly why we’re here and be living it every minute of every day. It's not easy, but it’s one of the most important things you need to do if you want to grow and develop into an even more...
The Quest for Leadership Purpose: Knowing Your Purpose
How can we expect our leaders to provide us a sense of meaning and purpose when they themselves struggle with self-knowledge, meaning and fulfillment? “We’ve found that fewer than 20% of leaders have a strong sense of their own individual purpose,”...
The Quest for Leadership Purpose
Let me ask you this: have you identified your leadership purpose, and are you expressing it in every moment? Don’t worry if you haven’t, only about 20% of leaders say they have. But if you want to drive a high-performance organization, you must find ways to make...
Stuck in the Past: Boost Personal Growth
How can you boost your personal growth so that you live up to your potential? In earlier blog posts I've been exploring how we get stuck in the past when we tell repetitive stories that explain who we are. Sometimes we use life experiences to further personal growth,...
Stuck in the Past: 5 Steps to Personal Growth
It's easy to get stuck in the past when a strong emotional memory takes hold and affects our self identity. In last week's blog post we discussed how you can take an objective look at the stories of your past and the current stories you're telling yourself about the...
Stuck in the Past: Reframe Reality
Are you stuck in the past, or work with someone who is? Not everyone aims for personal growth or uses their past experiences to move forward. If you've ever worked with a colleague who tells the same old stories over and over, you understand how people...
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