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Forbes: Three Ways To Enhance Your Empathy To Advance At Work
The key to moving forward no matter where you currently stand in rank, status and earnings is a return to empathy.
While it may seem counter-intuitive to many people in the corporate world, a return to authenticity and a strong expression of empathy-driven traits and skills is what propels leaders forward more than anything else in our current business climate.
Forbes: How Leaders Can Increase The Productivity Of Their Teams With The Enneagram
When the vice president of a top finance company came to me stressed out, overcompensating for a team that wasn’t performing, I brought his attention to the Enneagram. This piqued his curiosity, and we worked together with this typology system to reveal where this lack of productivity stemmed from.
Huffpost: The Elusive Feeling of Happiness
Happiness is the thing we desire most.
The elusive feeling of happiness is what motivates everything we do (or don’t do). It drives our careers. It’s what we’re really hoping to procure any time we buy something.
Forbes: Does Your Leadership Style Create Drama Or Ownership?
If you ask most business leaders, “Would you like to have a drama-free environment at work?” you'll receive a resounding yes. Ask these same leaders if their current work environment is drama-free, and they might stare a little blankly at you.
Huffpost: The Gift of Presence
Can you remember the last time you were truly present? When you weren’t splitting your attention between the task at hand and your phone, the media, or thoughts unrelated to the moment?
Forbes: Three Ways Top Executives Can Increase Trust In Their Leadership
There are two standard ways the word "integrity" is defined. The first characterizes a strict moral or ethical code. The second relates to integrity’s root word, integor, Latin for "integral" or "full." In my work with top executives, I find those who adopt the second definition are more trusted as leaders by their teams, their close associates and even the public.
Forbes: Five Ways Leaders Can Align With Integrity As We Move Into The New Year
As the end of the year approaches, it’s a natural time to look back, assess wins and take inventory of what you learned and what you can bring into the new year.
As a business leader, you might be feeling excited about your 2020 goals and plans, nervous about some challenges up ahead, disappointed about setbacks from 2019, happy about your achievements, or content with where you’re at.
Forbes: Is It Business Or Just Busyness? Five Questions Every Leader Must Ask
If you ask a typical business leader or executive if they have more to do than time to do it in, they’ll almost universally respond with yes. It’s interesting to consider that these same people are driven, intelligent leaders who invest their resources into high performance and becoming more efficient. Why, then, is there a gap between what they want (efficiency) and what they have (too much to do)? And, more importantly, can leaders get themselves out of the cycle of “busyness” and back into “business”?
Forbes: Comfortably Uncomfortable: Three Ways To Establish A Growth Mindset As A Leader
Most business leaders say that they value a "growth mindset." They understand that they need to reach inside themselves to grow past old concepts to truly expand their capacity, their business and their team.
But how can leaders consistently make sure they are on a path to growth?
Four Important Questions Leaders Should Ask Themselves Right Now
I've been using this past month to reflect quite a bit, and I've been thinking about all of you a lot. What I've wondered is this: What is your experience right now?
I myself oscillated between a sense of joy and possibility based on the fact that a "retreat" was in place for me, which felt like a positive thing. But I also went into states that were more rooted in fear and anxiety — especially when I tapped into the collective consciousness of what everybody else is feeling right now.