There’s energy around The Great Resignation, and it’s an incomplete conversation without talking about Burnout.

The last 15+ months have awakened us in countless ways, one important way is having a lower tolerance for BS. A lower tolerance for unfilling work. A lower tolerance for our work and the demand outpacing our reward and the benefit.

Where are you on your burnout? Is it putting you into the camp of folks looking to make a career change this year?

We get to choose what voices we listen to. We get to choose the perspective we hold.

This posting is a recap of a race I recently competed and the mental chatter that made it all possible.

We all have different endurance events we’re facing in our own lives, notice your chatter, notice your perspective, and choose what will serve you.

What works at one level of leadership is likely to run into serious limitations at the next level.

Said another way, what got you here, won’t get you there.

How long should a leader stay in the weeds with their people? Where are you most effective?

A leader setting the tone starts with the ability to lead self.

Leading yourself to what you’re needing. Leading yourself to understand your own “why.” Leading your own growth and development. Leading yourself to create and maintain boundaries. Leading your own well being with rest and exercise.

“If we are not at home within ourselves, it is difficult to make grounded, conscious choices.”

The question isn’t if you’re a leader. The question is what dimension of leadership are you in at this moment?

The root of all leadership starts within you. It’s your self-acceptance and self-authority. What are you stepping into to lead in your life and career?

What do marching bands, wheels of a car, and leadership teams all have in common?

The need for alignment.

Strategic leaders are able to Anticipate the needs of their people and the business, Challenge the status quo to surface all options, Interpret all available information, Decide what should be done, Align their stakeholders, and Learn from both successful and unsuccessful outcomes.

Of these, Alignment can be the most nuanced and can have the greatest impact on a leader’s effectiveness and the organization’s success.

Strategic leaders create and lead with vision.

Y’all already know this to be true, and yet, it’s a critical component of strong leadership that falls to the bottom of the totem pole when things get busy - when YOU get busy.

Explore a few actions to strengthen the way you lead with vision this year.

The most effective and scaled leaders develop and grow the capacity and capabilities of their team. A developed team is empowered, has strong decision making skills, is capable, and the leader is not a bottleneck and is positioned for strategic visioning and execution.

How do you stack up against the 5 conscious leadership competencies? How about the 3 reactive tendencies that can reduce a leader’s impact? Dive in and explore your opportunities to lead more strategically in 2021.

The effectiveness of an organization's leaders will determine whether or not that organization can grow. What works at one level will run into serious limitations at the next level.

Leaders are required to scale. How often do you think about your own scalability? We think about scalable solutions for products, customer experiences, and more, but what about our own leadership scalability?

You are 1 decision and 1 action away from the leadership, career, and life you want. When you envision life 12 months from now, who will you be? Where will you be? What will you be?

What will you do today to make your future self proud?

What are your values and how do you honor them in your work, your leadership, your job search, and your life?

Values are ways of being and beliefs that you hold most important.

Dive in to explore your values and how you can bring them forward in your life.

Legacy has always felt intimidating. It has felt lofty. It has felt beyond my capability, like something that truly remarkable people leave behind when they’ve passed on.

Over the last few weeks, it’s clear that we all need to be thinking about our legacy. We need to be doing better, being better, leaving things better than how we found them. Bequeathing values that will make a difference in the lives of those that follow.

Yesterday was hands down the hardest day of my career.

My Learning & Development team was deeply impacted by layoffs. They cried. I cried. We cried. The emotions were real and it was really hard.

As difficult as the day was, I wake up today with a renewed commitment to the power and importance of leading with care and vulnerability.

My purpose is to be the gasoline that turns your inner flame into a blazing bonfire.

What is your purpose? What lights you up inside? When are you at your absolute best?

Let these questions challenge you. Let these thoughts spark an internal drive that supersedes any early morning alarms and charges you forward towards your more full life.

What does your “doing it all” vs “having it all look like”? Did you used to dream about a day when you’d have everything you have now? What part of your life do you want to be living more fully?

When we let go of the myth that doing it all is what will help us lead a more fulfilling life, we can create an amazing journey towards having it all.

Nothing like an overnight shift to a remote workforce to hit reset on what it means to be a strong manager. While there’s plenty on the news to be worried about, I have to say, I’m excited for what this means for managers and leaders.

The thing about remote management is that it forces us to be better. It forces us to do the things we know we should do and, for loads of reasons, we don’t always actually do when we work in the same space.

What, how, and when leaders communicate always needs to be mindful and strategic. Explore four examples where changing one word changes how your message is received.

In my first few years of management, I did not put two and two together that the primary function of a manager is to develop their people.

If I were to go back in time and give my 22 year old self advice on how to be the best manager and the leader people would want to work for, I would tell her these 3 things:

1. Care Deeply

2. Hold a High Bar

3. Focus on Strengths

The stories we tell ourselves are so powerful. We all have an inner critic and an inner advocate. This simple question has enabled me to turn the volume up on my inner advocate and turn down my inner critic.

Culture is as much what you permit as what you encourage. Culture is a shared belief system and finding your professional culture match can make or break your satisfaction and engagement.