Coach Dan Estby

Tag: Leadership

  • Courage

     

  • Be Strong – Be Vulnerable

    Be Strong – Be Vulnerable

    Somehow in the workplace we’ve equated being a good leader with being infallible… with never making a mistake or a misstep.  I gotta be honest, that sounds EXHAUSTING to me!  I would argue that one of the most important characteristics of being a great leader, is showing that it’s ok to make mistakes.  That it’s…

  • Take Two Minutes Twoday!

     Today is Tuesday, 2/22/22.  Can anyone think of a better day to carve out two minutes of your day, and say “Thank you” to a partner, peer, coworker or friend who went out of their way to help you? If you’ve been paying attention, you already know that showing gratitude at work can measurable improve…

  • Grateful for Gratitude

     I know it’s an assumption, but I would still make a bet – everyone likes to receive gratitude for a job well done.  That moment of clarity where another person lets you know just how much you’re appreciated.  It’s a great feeling!  It can take a cruddy day and turn it around.  It can help…

  • A 15-minute a day habit that your teams will thank you for!

    I get it – you’re busy!  It’s the end of the year.  Performance reviews are due (or late!)  Holidays are coming up.  Projects are in critical phases.  End of year “spend it or lose it” time with budgets.  Probably some annual planning work in there somewhere too!  Busy, busy, busy! I can’t think of a…

  • I feel you brother – Empathy doesn’t need to be a mystery.

    I feel you brother – Empathy doesn’t need to be a mystery.

    Empathy, I think, is one of those things that is easy to define and hard to employ.  You can pretty easily find a consensus  on what the word means – I’ll even save you the trouble and Google it… It’s the ability to make a connection to a feeling someone else is having about a…

  • Are you working hard at listening?

    Are you working hard at listening?

    We’ve all been on the receiving end before. You’re in a conversation, and you just know the other person isn’t listening to you. Oh sure, they are nodding in all the right places, and making “interested” sounds here and there. They answer your question, but you can just feel they weren’t really interested in what…

  • Take your first step toward being a servant leader

    I keep hearing the term “servant leadership” lately.  I think like many things, the concept of servant leadership is easy to talk about  – and hard to achieve.   I wanted to start off with a “generally accepted definition” of servant leadership, so I Googled it…. and got 26,800,000 results…. YAY! So what IS Servant Leadership So…

  • Coach’s Challenge – “Be Humble”

      I was doing some reading on the topic of “servant leadership” last week, and I rediscovered an article in Harvard Business Review that I’d read a couple years back.  In it, the author explores the concept of leaders serving the people they lead rather than trying to exert control.   The author really highlights the point that…

  • Leader’s Challenge – Change your language- Stop Telling. Start Asking.

    Leader’s Challenge – Change your language- Stop Telling. Start Asking.

    Empowered teams self organize around a shared objective, and optimize themselves around achieving it. That all starts with team members who feel empowered, and frankly… that starts with you!  “I want you actively to train your people on how to think for themselves” – Eiji Toyoda “Think more like a gardener, less like a general.”…