Leaders take note - the Responsibility Game will ALWAYS win over the Blame Game! It’s 4:45 on a Friday afternoon, and you just realized that the report promised by your team didn’t get completed and now everyone is gone for the weekend. What do you do? While most...
Depending on the answer to who's living inside your head, it may be time to take roll call and shift some duties. We all have voices constantly talking to us. Growing up, I was told that if you heard voices in your head, you were...
I turned 53 yesterday, and going into my birthday, I took a moment to reflect on my 52nd year - what I learned (or relearned) about myself, life, love and leadership. And while I could likely come up with 52 lessons, I chose my top...
Who is the toughest person to be honest with? Yes, ourselves! It’s much easier to look at others and apply our truth to them. And while we normally won’t say it to their face, we will think it. Full of judgement because they think different from us, act different...
When you realize that you are your own biggest obstacle, you are officially on the path to creating a bigger, better, badasser life for yourself. If you still think that everyone else is to blame for you not having everything that you want in your...
Often, we are quick to give answers when we would be better off asking more questions. Questions empower, both ourselves and others, to create, innovate, learn and grow. Isn’t that the role of a leader? Check out these 5 questions that can create amazing new...
Have you ever made something harder than it needed to be? All. The. Time. Why do we do that? Usually because we are not being in the moment. Instead we are either bringing a story from our past to the situation and making it more...
Is your outcome to create leaders or followers? A boss, dictator or guru might want to have a band of followers; however, a TRUE leader is looking to create more leaders. This goes for both work and home. If you’ve got kids, do you want...
I took an informal poll of 33 people and 31 (94%) said they were good team players. I believe that is representative of how most people would answer. Is it true? What does it really take to be a truly good team player? Take our quiz below...
When is the best time to practice your leadership skills? When you least feel like it. That's when your leadership muscles will gain the most strength. I became very clear early in my professional career that just because someone had a position of authority didn’t mean...