Holding back on a feedback conversation?

Our mindset impacts our success in these conversations.

Read 3 tips to recenter your mindset and set you up for success going into a feedback conversation.

What got you here, won’t get you there.

The skills and behaviors that have enabled your to arrive at your current level won’t be the same skills and behaviors needed at your next level.

What is your next level? What will it require of you?

Start with a self assessment and then make your decision. Let’s get there!

This week I am thrilled to honor the 2nd anniversary of my business, Endurance Management Coaching.

Many of you have been here from the start. Many of you are new to me and my work. In both cases, what might have seemed easy was a number of years in the making.

Here is the origin story for Endurance Management Coaching…

There are some things you can’t unknow. There becomes a before knowing and an after knowing.

For me, it was Friday, January 11, 2020.

Investing in ourselves is an investment in others.

This holiday season, fuel your year ahead by diving into some of my favorite books and start following my leadership thought leaders.

Leaders are learners. Let’s do this!

Leading authentically is harder than we think.

Authenticity seems simple: be yourself, speak truthfully, and share your ideas.

But we have inner assumptions that hold us back. We have organizational norms and structures to operate within. We have people we're aiming to please.

Check out these 3 actions to boost your leadership authenticity.

Where are you waiting to be ready?

Being ready goes beyond a feeling, it’s ultimately a decision to leap, to commit, to get after it.

What decisions can you make to move from waiting on the sidelines and getting into the game?

P0s in the way of your strategic thinking, planning, and execution time?

Dare to consider not fighting all the fires.

Check out an additional mental filter to view the urgent issues that cross your desk.

One of the most rewarding areas I love to explore with leaders is the Land of Assumptions.

Assumptions are all around us and it’s amazing the stronghold they have on us.

Read 3 steps to enable your best management and leadership to move past the assumptions that are holding you back.

Leading with vision is not something we’re taught in manager basics.

Why wait until you’re a Director, VP, or in the C-suite to begin honing these skills?  The answer is you shouldn’t.

I have a guided exercise to challenge and inspire you. The key with vision is it has to start with you.

What are you seeing, believing, and working towards achieving?

What if we didn’t fake it til we made it?

How many of us received that advice in our early management career? The intent was to boost our confidence in the face of our imposter syndrome.

The byproduct? A huge missed opportunity to hone our vulnerability skills - one of the most important qualities of a fantastic leader.

Explore the advice we should share instead.

Goals matter. They give us clarity, purpose, confidence, achievement, and personal growth.

AND we’re not always terribly great with goals - personally and professionally.

Today I share my recent experience with goals and then some thoughts to challenge and support your own pursuit of goals as a human, a leader, and someone who wants to have an impact.

Are your meetings managing you or are you managing your meetings?

Do you find yourself in back to back to back meetings with very little strategic thinking and planning time?

Use these 5 tactical strategies to shift from being managed by your calendar to you managing and driving your own time.

When did executive presence become the catchall for leadership development conversations?

You know it when you see it, but how does that help our future leaders? How are we helping them develop this critical, intangible skill if we’re treating it as a catchall?

So this performance review cycle, what if we got more specific?

What elements of executive presence are you wanting to see in your people?

We stereotypically think of feedback as high stakes and low frequency.

What if we shifted that?

What about making feedback low stakes and high frequency?

I’ve found the key to enabling this shift is two fold: build the relationship and master your transition.

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.