All teams should have rules of engagement, or ground rules. They are simply straightforward ways of being with each other that support a larger vision and purpose. One of the biggest benefits from rules of engagement is building trust, which is at the core of...
I fall down. A lot. It’s getting easier to accept the falls though. I get up faster and faster. AND, leadership is a practice. Doing the work doesn’t mean I don’t fall. It actually means I fall more often. The quicker I get up, the more opportunities...
This past week I did something I thought I had never done. I paid someone to stretch me. You see, I recently started running more, and my hips were tight and sore. I knew I needed to stretch, or do some yoga, but in reality, I...
Where did I ever get the notion that failure wasn’t an option? I picked it up somewhere and carried it as a weight around my neck for most of my life. It left me paralyzed because if I wasn’t sure I would succeed at something, I wouldn’t...
I had the pleasure of reporting for jury duty this past week. I took a book and a positive attitude to prepare for the day. (My positive attitude about the possibility of learning something new actually makes all the difference in how my day turns...
Last week I had an awareness that I wanted to share today. On Wednesday, after dinner, me and my daughter went to a local ice cream shop in our neighborhood to pick up some dessert. As we were leaving with our ice cream, we noticed...
As I climbed the Gringo Killer, my breathing was labored due to the incline even though the elevation here wasn’t nearly as high as it was the day before. I was grateful for my poles because they offered another point of stability for my tired...
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...
What You Focus On Expands When we focus on a problem or challenge, the solution is often hard to come by, yet the problem is still there, so what is the answer? The answer is to ask good questions. Under normal circumstances, two useful leadership traits to...