I’m a believer in people. I also believe that when women and men elevate leadership, they activate potential to change their life, change their work, and change the world. Enter Mark Miller, author of recently released Smart Leadership: Four Simple Choices to Scale Your Impact. Are you ready to increase influence and impact in life [...]
Leaders often seek greater clarity of insight to support being more strategic and effective. I recently read authors Jim Haudan's and Rich Berens' book, What Are Your Blind Spots? Conquering the 5 Misconceptions that Hold Leaders Back, to be released October 5th this year. My review covers a “galley” copy of this book, prior to publication. What this [...]
In this post, our questions from WID Leadership Summit participants are all about minding the gap. Here’s the questions … How do I move from glorified secretary/assistant role into a leadership role? How do I get promoted as a non-engineer in an engineering command? How do I effectively lead a diverse group of men and [...]
I love this next question from a WID Leadership Summit* attendee, who wants to know "How to better message and "sell" ideas and solutions to my leadership (as a worker-bee)." We covered some of the technical aspects of presentation development and delivery in the presence-focused session at the event. At the heart of this question, [...]
The Women In Defense (WID) Palmetto Chapter hosted a leadership summit towards the end of 2017. I led two sessions—Growing through Disruption: Leverage the Power of Change for Career Success and Elevate Your Presence: Stand Up and Stand Out When Speaking and Leading—and invited attendees to submit questions. Several women responded with leadership or career [...]
Let’s talk great feedback. What exactly is “great” feedback? We know it when we hear it, right? Unfortunately, we don’t often get helpful, timely feedback—let alone great feedback. This post reviews potential issues that influence the value of feedback and opportunities for generating and leveraging great feedback. Most of us appreciate hearing when our contributions [...]
In my mind, I hear a wise influencer’s wry statement: “No change, no change.” Translation: if inputs (person, process, strategy, etc.) don’t change, the outcome will not shift towards desired results. Whether an executive or leader seeks to increase his or her impact, assure organizational objectives, shape—or reshape—perceptions, expand influence, or become unstuck from unsatisfying [...]
News media, particularly over the past decade, tends to suggest leadership failure as the norm. Reporting blunders, from foolish faux pas to serious ethical breaches, invites us to believe that great leadership is so rare as to be hardly attainable. When things go wrong, we see the painful outcomes in print, broadcast on television, and [...]
Time and again, I’m asked to recommend books on leadership and related topics—especially after (1) someone gets a peek at my library and topic designated bookcases spread throughout my office and home, or (2) I’ve given a speech or presentation. As a result, I’m compiling a series of reading list handouts. In today’s post, I [...]
Most of us can name a past project that consumed our full attention and resources. What happened when that project ended? If your answer involves immediately jumping to the next, equally demanding endeavor, this post is for you. This past spring, any action unrelated to completing my doctorate fell by the wayside of my dissertation [...]
