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Mentoring is essential to leading in change. Here's how to get it.
Disruption a constant in most industries today. It also creates enormous opportunities to rise in organizations if we are able to grow our capacity to lead in complexity and ambiguity. A significant part of being able to lead in disruption is having the capacity to see around corners and anticipate what is emerging.
To Be More Agile, Be Coachable. Four Ways Leaders Become Coachable
Our world and workplaces continue to disrupt. This can create stress within us and our teams. Stress amplifies resistance to change, when what we actually need is greater agility in this decade of disruption. In my book Wired for Disruption, I wrote about the five forms of agility that we need to learn and practice. While we cannot predict the future, we can participate in creating it through our practice of agility. The key to our growing our agility is opening ourselves up to become more coachable.
To Lead And Influence Powerfully In Complexity, Practice Attunement
I was recently talking with a executive coaching client who came to our conversation stressed out and angry at one of his peers who he felt had undermined his authority. Speaking rapidly, he described the circumstances, distrustful of his peer’s motives, and ready to retaliate. It felt like a torrent of anger coming at me even though it wasn’t directed toward me.
How To Align Your Stakeholders To Make Your Organization More Agile
“There are so many priorities. Different stakeholders want me to focus on their own pet priority. I feel I am constantly running to catch up and no one is satisfied. Frankly I’m stretched thin!”, a CEO confided in me recently. His brow was furrowed and clearly he had run out of steam for the day. It was only 11am. In a world that is constantly disrupting, with different stakeholder needs, we know that teams and organizations that are agile will be the winners of the future.
From Burnout To Breakthrough - How Practicing Mindfulness Together Impacts Team Results
Connecting with thousands of leaders globally over the last two years, there are three common themes I hear. First, complexity and speed of disruption feels impossible to manage leaving many of us burned out. Second, the state of burnout and stress is causing many executive teams to be disconnected from one another and from creative solutions. This disconnection makes it hard to align on priorities and leaves people with too many fragmented to-do’s, exacerbating burnout.
To Get Creative Teams, Create A Connected Social Field
“I think I messed up” an executive coaching client said to me recently. He was having an “aha” moment regarding a meeting he led recently with a team of direct reports. They were trying to brainstorm creative ways to ensure that they could meet a high-profile client’s needs. Instead of creativity from the team, he had gotten mostly dispassionate responses. He was realizing why that had happened.
Retenção de talentos: como líderes podem reduzir o turnover
“Não tenho certeza de quanto tempo mais posso continuar”, disse-me uma cliente de coaching executivo na semana passada em estado de estresse. Ela estava trabalhando com a pressão significativa de entregar resultados, dadas as camadas de complexidade e desafio em sua função. Tendo falado com seu chefe no passado, garanti-lhe que ela era vista como alguém de alto desempenho e altamente valorizada na empresa.
One Simple Tool For Leaders To Retain Your Talent
"I'm not sure how much longer I can continue", an executive coaching client said to me last week in a state of stress. She was working through the significant pressure of delivering results given the layers of complexity and challenge in her role. Having spoken to her boss in the past, I reassured her that she was seen as a top performer for their company and was highly valued.
How To Lead Your Exhausted Team
If you're asking yourself how to get your team to be productive, you're not alone. You're also not asking the right question. Our teams are exhausted and as leaders our job is first to understand our team members' experience. Our obsession with our goals ahead of the care for our people is a sign of our own trauma and disconnection from others. To lead effectively in complexity, we need to bring deeper presence, listening and connection to workplaces. In this interview, we can learn how to do that.
Healing Our Divides: The New Essential Capacity For Leaders
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky AFP via Getty Images There are leaders that divide. And there are leaders that unite. What is being played out in the world stage with Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine is a dramatic projection of our every day experience of leaders. Leaders’ choices matter and have vast implications because we live in an interconnected world. Putin’s invasion of Ukraine created a large divide, Russia against much of the rest of the world.
Ten Ways MLK’s Teachings Can Inspire Your Leadership Dream Team
On August 28, 1963 MLK delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech to an estimated 250,000 civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. I imagine that if he were alive today, he would want each of us to look in the mirror and ask ourselves “What is my dream for our world?” I imagine he would ask us to dream with our teams to imagine workplaces and a world that is more equal, just, free and in service to all of life.
Ten Ways MLK’s Teachings Can Inspire Your Leadership Dream Team Original
"I HAVE A DREAM" inscribed on the floor of the Lincoln Memorial from which Martin Luther King Jr. ... [+] delivered his famous I Have A Dream speech in Washington D.C. getty On August 28, 1963 MLK delivered his famous “I have a dream” speech to an estimated 250,000 civil rights marchers at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC.
How To Set Inspired Goals For 2022
The year 2021 brought even more change, ambiguity and unpredictability than we anticipated. Most of us are ready to leave the disruption of the pandemic behind. We feel exhausted and burned out. Who needs more “resolutions” when we are already at our limit? We need a more mindful and compassionate way to set our 2022 goals so that we are more inspired in following through on them. These seven questions help you to do that.
How To Set Inspired Goals For 2022
2022 Goals text on note pad getty The year 2021 brought even more change, ambiguity and unpredictability than we anticipated. Most of us are ready to leave the disruption of the pandemic behind. We feel exhausted and burned out. Who needs more “resolutions” when we are already at our limit? We need a more mindful and compassionate way to set our 2022 goals so that we are more inspired in following through on them. These seven questions help you to do that.
The Agile Board - Transformational Leadership
Agility is now a key business skill. By using a five-factor framework, C-suite leaders and board directors develop stronger agility muscles. This period of seismic disruption has provided an enormous leadership test for CEOs and their C-suite teams, and they have faced heightened scrutiny over whether they are able to develop new mindsets, capabilities and competencies for the more complex environment of the new normal.
The Agile Board
This period of seismic disruption has provided an enormous leadership test for CEOs and their C-suite teams, and they have faced heightened scrutiny over whether they are able to develop new mindsets, capabilities and competencies for the more complex environment of the new normal. But just as important, board directors also need to develop their skills to better steward their organizations through disruption.
Confused Clients
Thursday, March 25th, 2021 Confused Clients “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.” –┬áTom Peters This tax season brings unique and never before experienced situations for many of your clients. Perhaps, they are contacting you, maybe too often with all kinds of questions and concerns. You might even be getting frustrated with all of those questions, some of which you have no answers for! Why not host a Zoom session for your clients in a question-and-answer format?
Confused Clients
Thursday, March 25th, 2021 Confused Clients “If you’re not confused, you’re not paying attention.” – Tom Peters This tax season brings unique and never before experienced situations for many of your clients. Perhaps, they are contacting you, maybe too often with all kinds of questions and concerns. You might even be getting frustrated with all of those questions, some of which you have no answers for! Why not host a Zoom session for your clients in a question-and-answer format?
Six Leadership Practices To Be More Agile In 2021
It’s that time of year when we set new year resolutions. Except this year is different. We have the benefit of 2020 hindsight and everything we learned from the challenges of last year. As we enter 2021 in this decade of continued disruption (climate change, digital transformation and advances in artificial intelligence changing the future of work), it will serve all of us well to focus on leadership practices, not resolutions.
Six Leadership Practices To Be More Agile In 2021
2021 Goal Plan Action text on note pad with calculator getty It’s that time of year when we set new year resolutions. Except this year is different. We have the benefit of 2020 hindsight and everything we learned from the challenges of last year. As we enter 2021 in this decade of continued disruption (climate change, digital transformation and advances in artificial intelligence changing the future of work), it will serve all of us well to focus on leadership practices, not resolutions.
Ten Questions To Reflect On 2020 To Grow Leadership Agility
This year has been a year unlike any other in our lifetimes, individually and collectively. Many of my executive coaching clients are exhausted from the year. Most are well on their way to preparing for 2021. My advice to them is to pause and reflect. This year has taught us that there is much outside our control. What we can control is who we are being and how we respond to what is needed in the moment. These ten questions will help you internalize leadership lessons from this year.
Ten Questions To Reflect On 2020 To Grow Leadership Agility
New Year's notebook with new challenges and written objectives getty This year has been a year unlike any other in our lifetimes, individually and collectively. Many of my executive coaching clients are exhausted from the year. Most are well on their way to preparing for 2021. My advice to them is to pause and reflect. This year has taught us that there is much outside our control. What we can control is who we are being and how we respond to what is needed in the moment.
Five Ways To Reinvent Yourself As A Digital Leader
Businesswomen using mobile phone analyzing data and economic growth graph chart. Technology digital ... [+] marketing and network connection. getty The global pandemic has accelerated the digital future, forcing virtual ways of interacting, working and learning all over the planet. In my work, I get to talk with top chief human resource officers and heads of board compensation committees. They agree. In these times of rapid change skills have a shorter half-life.
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How To Drive Clarity And Creativity In Times Of Disruption
“There is so much we don’t know about the future, it just feels like we’re treading water. My people are anxious”, an executive coaching client confided in me recently. As leaders it can be frustrating when we know we need to provide clarity about the future, but clarity eludes us. Here’s what to do instead. When we can’t predict the future, we focus on finding a meaningful problem worth solving.
Small Acts of Nourishment
I’ve been feeling very stretched. I imagine we all have been feeling that way. Just this morning, I burst into tears. I was in the car at the end of our driveway, slower than normal to take the right turn into the street toward my morning sanctuary walk at the Lullwater Preserve, not far from home. An oncoming jogger, intent to not slow down his run, signaled impatiently for me to get my car out of his path. As I turned, the tears flowed, my heart hurt by his impatient gesture.
Como introvertidos prosperam nos tempos de crise
E os introvertidos devem tentar proteger seu tempo de silêncio para um trabalho focado e com pausas Você sabe como estão os introvertidos em sua equipe? Eles precisam das mesmas rotinas de trabalho que os extrovertidos para se sentir produtivo e criativo? Tempos de crise são oportunidades para que cada um de nós seja criativo em moldar um novo “normal” e resolver esse difícil desafio de viver hoje.
How Introverts Thrive In Times Of Disruption
Helping introverts thrive in virtual environments Getty Do you know how the introverts on your team are doing? Do they need the same work routines as the extroverts on your team to feel productive and creative? Times of disruption are opportunities for each of us to be creative to shape a better “normal” and solve tough challenges.
Three Tools To Manage Emotions In Your Team
“I want a re-do of 2020!” a senior leader said to me recently. After the difficult task of crisis management during the pandemic, trying her best to keep her virtual team engaged, pivoting plans to keep customers engaged, she just found out she was laid off. No fault of hers. The organization is restructuring and laying off people to manage their costs in the wake of declining revenues. I asked her what she was feeling. Mostly relief she said because things had been tough.
Three Tools To Manage Emotions In Your Team
Hand Changing with smile emoticon icons face on Wooden Cube , hand flipping unhappy turning to ... [+] happy symbol Getty “I want a re-do of 2020!” a senior leader said to me recently. After the difficult task of crisis management during the pandemic, trying her best to keep her virtual team engaged, pivoting plans to keep customers engaged, she just found out she was laid off. No fault of hers.
A Tool To Grow Belonging
Since my conversation about race with my friend Vernice (a mother of two African American boys), I’ve been thinking a lot about what it is to belong versus what it’s like to feel like “the other.” In our podcast, Vernice talked about how she didn’t feel comfortable talking about race outside the “family” (i.e., her black family and tribe).
How To Have a Courageous Conversation About Race
This week as leaders, many of us are trying to figure out how to address the issue of racism in America. Some of us are avoiding the conversation because we feel ill-equipped to have it. For others, it feels too painful to talk about. Still, others are thinking it is not their issue to address. They are hoping the CEO message about how they stand for diversity will be enough.
How To Have A Courageous Conversation About Race
Two persons sharing their truth Getty This week as leaders, many of us are trying to figure out how to address the issue of racism in America. Some of us are avoiding the conversation because we feel ill-equipped to have it. For others it feels too painful to talk about. Still others are thinking it is not their issue to address. They are hoping the CEO message about how they stand for diversity will be enough.
Listen Deeply To Lead
On this day, 25 cities in the US are under curfew. Protests and riots are happening around the country. People are demonstrating, angry and frustrated at the death of George Floyd, an unarmed African American, killed by a white police officer this week. It’s a stark reminder of how racism is a part of the fabric of this country and a beneath the surface “normal” experience of many African Americans. I will preface this post by saying that I realize this is an uncomfortable topic.
The Five Types Of Agility To Lead In Disruption
If you’re finding yourself exhausted or unsure about how to make decisions in this time of disruption, you’re not alone. Leaders around the world are trying to learn how to lead with agility in these unprecedented times. As an executive coach, I am getting many requests like this e-mail from Carlos (we’ll call him Carlos to protect the innocent): “I wonder if you can help me with the head of one of my sales teams. His name is John.
Saiba quais são os 5 tipos de agilidade para liderar em meio à disrupção
É preciso dominar os diferentes tipos de agilidade para prosperar no futuro disruptivo do trabalho Se estiver exausto ou inseguro sobre como tomar decisões neste momento de disrupção, você não está sozinho. Líderes de todo o mundo estão tentando aprender a liderar com agilidade nestes tempos sem precedentes. Como coach executivo, estou recebendo muitos pedidos como este: “Gostaria de saber se você pode me ajudar com o chefe de uma das minhas equipes de vendas.
The Five Types Of Agility To Lead In Disruption
An elephant balances on one leg on a rubber ball exhibiting skill, balance and success. Getty If you’re finding yourself exhausted or unsure about how to make decisions in this time of disruption, you’re not alone. Leaders around the world are trying to learn how to lead with agility in these unprecedented times.
Build Virtual Team Connection with One Simple Tool
A client recently shared with me that both she and her team are close to burnout. She wanted to create a different experience for her team, one where they could relax and connect authentically with one another. We decided to use one of The 15 Accelerators of Agility from my upcoming book Wired for Disruption. It’s called the Empathy Dialogue Tool ™. It helps us to develop a stronger and more trusted partnership with others. It creates vulnerability-based trust on teams.
Self-Compassion — A Tool To Help You Lead in Disruption - Transformational Leadership
Yesterday I was on a call with 90+ board members of publicly traded companies from around the globe. We were discussing how we are adapting to the COVID-19 pandemic and what kind of a future their boards are planning for. There were two scenarios we were gathering feedback on: Scenario 1: The corporation will recover back to “pre-corona normal” in 6-12 months. Scenario 2: A fundamental shift and transformation of the market sector is underway.
A Dose of Inspiration – Now Is The Time For Leadership Experiments - Transformational Leadership
Some of you may have read my blog post about how times of disruption call for leadership experiments. As I have been pondering about how to be most useful to my clients and community, here is what I’m discovering about leadership experiments. See if this resonates for you: Leadership experiments can be hard in stressful times. If our nervous system is already feeling “under threat,” all we want to do is crawl back under the covers (or eat a batch of freshly baked quarantine chocolate chip cookies).
Four Ways To Be An Agile Leader In Virtual Environments
We are being disrupted in many ways in today’s world. Many of my executive coaching clients are exhausted from long days of business continuity triage and having to learn and adapt quickly to managing in virtual teams. I sat down with Nahia Orduna, Senior Manager in Analytics and Digital Integration at Vodafone. She has been leading virtual agile teams for two years and I asked her to share her experience.
Four Ways To Be An Agile Leader In Virtual Environments
Working in Virtual Teams Getty We are being disrupted in many ways in today’s world. Many of my executive coaching clients are exhausted from long days of business continuity triage and having to learn and adapt quickly to managing in virtual teams. I sat down with Nahia Orduna, Senior Manager in Analytics and Digital Integration at Vodafone. She has been leading virtual agile teams for two years and I asked her to share her experience.
Como o mindfulness pode ajudar a liderar em momentos disruptivos
É preciso desenvolver novas capacidades para liderar em ambiente de crise e pandemia A crise global causada pela pandemia de Covid-19 tem afetado cada um de nós de várias e únicas maneiras. Recentemente, durante uma chamada de vídeo com um CEO, ele parecia cansado, com bolsas nos olhos. Perguntei como ele se sentia e ele falou sobre alguns dos desafios de liderar neste novo ambiente. Discutimos como tomar decisões quando não se tem as respostas.
Daily Dose of Inspiration – Stepping Into Experiments & Finding Opportunity in Crisis - Transformational Leadership
I recently had a Zoom call with a client team. It was an experiment to see how we could shift ourselves from doing business continuity triage to actually discovering the opportunities in the midst of the crisis. The complex situation we are in is a great time for doing experiments because there are very few blueprints about this specific situation we’re in. We get to create the path as we go.
Three Mindfulness Practices For Leading In Disruption
The global pandemic crisis is stretching each of us in many unique ways. Just yesterday, I was having a video call with a CEO. He looked tired, with bags under his eyes. I asked what it’s like for him. He talked about some of the challenges of leading in this new environment. We discussed how you make decisions when you don’t have the answers. Yet, as the CEO, every hour or call is a new decision of consequence.
Three Mindfulness Practices For Leading In Disruption
The global pandemic crisis is stretching each of us in many unique ways. Just yesterday, I was having a video call with a CEO. He looked tired, with bags under his eyes. I asked what it’s like for him. He talked about some of the challenges of leading in this new environment. We discussed how you make decisions when you don’t have the answers. Yet, as the CEO, every hour or call is a new decision of consequence.
To Lead In Uncertainty Do Experiments
How do you make decisions in an uncertain environment? The coronavirus pandemic is creating times of unprecedented change and ambiguity. At a macro level companies are having to make hard decisions quickly to protect the health of employees, pivot supply chains and plan for scenarios without any idea of what will transpire. At a micro level we are each pivoting to social distance, to work and school from home and to collaborate in virtual teams. All this change can be disorienting.
To Lead In Uncertainty Do Experiments
How do you make decisions in an uncertain environment? The coronavirus pandemic is creating times of unprecedented change and ambiguity. At a macro level companies are having to make hard decisions quickly to protect the health of employees, pivot supply chains and plan for scenarios without any idea of what will transpire. At a micro level we are each pivoting to social distance, to work and school from home and to collaborate in virtual teams. All this change can be disorienting.
Daily Dose of Inspiration – How To Make Decisions When You Don’t Have the Answers - Transformational Leadership
Just yesterday, I was having a video call with a CEO. He looked tired, with bags under his eyes. I asked what it’s like for him. He was talking about some of the challenges of leading in this new environment. We talked about how you make decisions when you don’t have the answers? Yet, as the CEO, every hour or call is a new decision of consequence.
How Gratitude Can Help Us In Crisis
We are living in a world today where we are waking up every day to new levels of uncertainty with the spread of the coronavirus. We are waking up to how interconnected and interdependent we really are. Fear sets in for many of us. At the same time, leaders around the world are leaning into change, learning how to quickly adapt to disruption and ambiguity.
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