Tag: Servant Leadership
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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…
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Happy National Bartender Day
Learn more about National Bartender Day.
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Coach’s Challenge – Show your appreciation
The most important people in any company are the ones who make valuable things for your customer. In our complex world, very few things can be done without the help of teammates, partners or other critical helpers. Take a moment and acknowledge the people who help you create and deliver value. Showing genuine appreciation for…
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Leadership: Is Authority in Your Way?
As I created that quote, I wasn’t sure that I really liked it all that much. Felt kind of judgy… maybe a little controversial… I actually “focus grouped” it out to a couple of coaches and other folks to get their opinion and the ensuing discussions were actually pretty interesting and valuable – so I’ll…
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Whatcha been doing lately?
Oh what a loaded question, right? So much going on in the last month or so. So many ways to answer that question! We can think of a leader’s time and energy being split into 4 quadrants: While leaders have to spend time and energy in all four of these quadrants, “agile leaders” (leaders who…
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Dear Agile Marketing Leader…
I’m not going to lie – I’m super proud of (and very fond of) our agile marketers. To a person these are some of the most customer focused, creative, passionate people I’ve ever had the pleasure of working with. Every day I get a little smarter (not hard considering where I’m starting from) by observing…
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Coach’s Challenge – Do you control your commanding?
So first and foremost – kudos if you got past that horrible pun of a title. I’m (obviously?) thinking about the concept of command and control, and how as agile managers we can sometimes struggle with the voices in our head. You know what I’m talking about – the ones that say “Failure is not an…