When leading others, expect to actively play these roles regularly in service of those you lead.
The coach helps set goals, co-create development plans, and actively monitors progress, course correcting to drive optimal personal growth.
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Good systems allow processes to flow. They have some common characteristics such as clarity of roles, defined leading indicators and success metrics, and low error rates – – with an eye towards best in class. The stewards of those systems spend most of their time with their people, coaching and working on the system to tweak and innovate for continuous improvement. [Read More…]
Oftentimes our biggest started challenge is getting. Consider creating your goals.
Goals are critical intervals that take you from the vision of your purpose to the fulfillment of it, propelling you past procrastination, doubt, barriers, and distractions.
Rasheed continues with …
“Over time – and to sustain you through it – your motivation must become an inner energy; a ‘motor’ driving you forward, passionately, purposefully, wisely and compassionately… come what may, every day.”
Indeed, motives are powerful, and if you have not figured anything out else about my Success Thought of the Day posts and emails, I bet you have noticed that purpose (which I would argue is similar to motive) is a focal point. [Read More…]
Experience is a great teacher. Wisdom is learning from someone else’s experience.
Finding your path includes incorporating those things as points of learning but not boxing yourself into those things.
I don’t believe anyone will ever say leadership is easy, it takes work. However, there are three things you can do as you facilitate talent that will make a meaningful difference. [Read More…]
Finding or resurfacing your purpose requires internal work. This is about some alone time; I dare say, “non-digital time.” Ideally, you want to begin to create a view that lets you see what gets you fired up, alongside your gifts and talents and how they overlap and complement each other. [Read More…]
It was about ten minutes before the start of the class I was teaching. While I had taught this series of classes several times, it had always been with adults. This was the first with junior high school students, and as we know, children can be challenging! I was deeply concerned about how we would connect early on, particularly over Zoom.
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