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While gratitude is a frequent topic of leadership thoughts around this time of year, I just couldn’t ignore what I’ve been observing in the clients I’m coaching as well as in my own life. While research shows that gratitude makes for a stronger leader, what I hear collectively these days is that it’...
Key Takeaways Sometimes leadership means focusing on our bosses and developing ways to help them do their jobs better. ‘Managing up’ is very different from ‘sucking up’ and there are specific things we can do to lead by helping our boss do his or her job better. Leadership development these days fo...
Key Takeaways: Evaluate the current state of your schedule Consider the intentions for your work Commit to time alone as a way to recalibrate For many leaders, each moment of their day is booked solid and they may feel pressure to take early meetings, squeeze in calls over lunch, take late meetings ...
A recent study by Gallup found that only three out of 10 people surveyed felt strongly that their management/organization truly values their opinion. Do you feel that your organization values your opinion? If you answered no or not confident that the answer is yes, or even if you can answer yes, yo...
Key Takeaways: Foresight is a dynamic skill that is critical to organizational agility. For leaders to successfully carry out a vision, they must develop foresight and prepare for various scenarios. Strategic foresight can be practiced through exercises like scenario planning. In today’s day and age...
Yesterday morning, the game of golf changed forever. For decades, the PGA Tour has been the world’s premier professional golf league. In 2021, Greg Norman announced the formation of a competitor – LIV Golf Enterprises (Hamel, 2023). The organization is backed by the Public Investment Fund, which o...
The renowned leadership expert Warren Bennis said that the best leaders lead themselves. In his seminal book on leadership, “On Becoming a Leader”, he described the process through which leaders understand themselves and ultimately lead themselves most effectively. I have seen the importance of le...
Takeaways: Though “actions speak louder than words,” reactions can make or break your leadership potential. You can increase self-awareness (and improve your reactions) with practice. What happens when something doesn’t go your way? Perhaps it was something you were really counting on. If you’r...
Each month, the Lead Read Today team offers a review of a leadership book that is both helpful and trustworthy, and includes concepts that have been proven by leadership research. “You can motivate by fear. And you can motivate by reward. But both of these methods are only temporary. The only lastin...
“The Servant-Leader is servant first. . . . It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. . . . The best test, and difficult to administer is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become h...
