A lack of strategic growth and self-awareness can manifest as overconfidence in one's abilities and decision-making. A leader who is overly confident may underestimate risks, ignore warning signs, and fail to seek input from others, potentially leading to poor decision-making.
How does strategicall...
As I (Cindy) write this, I'm thinking of every leader who wants to be better tomorrow than they are today. That takes reflection. In the fast-paced world of leadership, it's easy to get caught up in the immediate demands of decision-making, managing teams, and driving results. However, reflection st...
I’ll say it once more, just in case you’ve drifted off… Leading a team effectively is hard! And so is being a great team member, staying engaged and working toward the organization’s goals and purpose. Just like having a clear purpose helps fuel those of us who have accepted responsibility for leadi...
Whether there’s an exemplary top-down approach throughout the organization we’re a part of or not, each of us will be able to achieve better results within our own areas of leadership responsibility when we earn genuine buy-in from the team reporting to us! This particular thing, as much as anything...
If we really are tuned into what our team members are looking for from us as their leaders, we need to be intentional about providing them with the support they’ll need to accomplish their goals. Some of those goals tie right back to daily, weekly, or monthly productivity but those goals could just ...
When we’ve done the work to provide the right training, understanding that not just any training will help us capture lost profitability, we should be seeing the results show up immediately - through how our team members get things accomplished and in our bottom line! Here’s how an article from Chro...
The first fundamental lesson in Josh Waitzkin’s book, The Art of Learning, is to Value the Process. If you’ve been following here you may have read my (Cindy) last blog, Outside Growth, Inside Growth and remember that in his book Josh offers some foundational principles we can apply to The Art of L...
To this point, we’ve looked at a number of profitability killers that are affecting nearly every business. Through this process, I’ve been intentional about making a case for how effective leadership - while often viewed as something soft or intangible - can make an immediate and measurable impact o...
Growth can be a vulnerable area, especially when we are working hard to grow on the inside. In a way, it reminds me of a hermit crab. The hermit crab is well protected by its shell, until it outgrows it. As the shell starts becoming uncomfortable, the crab knows it’s time to look for another shel...
The best leaders I (Cindy) know have learned the Art of Leadership as much or more than the Science of Leadership.
The Art of Leadership Learning is the intuitive piece of gaining the right skills to lead effectively. It’s not the Science of Leadership, although that is important. It's the Art o...
In 2019, I (Cindy) hurt my back, which put me out of commission for around 2 weeks and months of pain afterward. Along with strengthening exercises, the best thing I could do involved (and still does) daily stretching. I’m not talking about those ‘just woke up from a nap’ stretch either. The stretc...
I believe we all know the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting a different result.
Our actions can be the very definition of insanity if we’re not taking the time to reflect on the choices we make in our defining moments of leadership.
Considering man...
