Leadership
Ways to Blab Less
Summer Reading Connections – Part III The last author, Dan, from Saturday Solutions offered a catchy title: Clarity without Blabbing. It caught my eye for the very reason that a reflective leader was working on self-assessment and decided he wanted to blab less and so he wrote Dan requesting some strategies. He was very wise…
Read MoreNew Beginnings
As a lover of school and a lifetime student, I am always jazzed about starting a new school year. A major appeal is the opportunity for new beginnings each year. We don’t have to wait for a new year to have a new beginning, yet there is something about the flow of school calendars that…
Read MoreIt’s a Marathon, Not a Sprint
Recently a TED talk by Angela Duckworth has appeared in my social media feed. Angela left a successful corporate career to become a teacher. She took a look at student success through a motivational and psychological perspective to try to understand, “Who is successful here and why?” As she studied this question, she found that…
Read MoreThe Big and Little of You and Why Both are Important for Self-Awareness
In the ezine article for September, we mentioned the concept of the “big and little who” as coined by Carly Anderson, MCC. Thinking about both fosters possibilities for advanced insights about ourselves and about others. Your “who” represents the way you think through situations, your values, your beliefs, your assumptions, your needs, your wants, etc.…
Read MoreWant to Increase Your Self-Awareness? Ask for Feedback.
In our earlier articles this month, the focus has been on ways to increase self-awareness through considering how your ways of thinking and responding to situations aligns with the big picture of who you are at your best, as defined by your identified values and principles and who you are in the activities of each…
Read MoreTake Three For Successful Conversations
“I need to have a conversation with someone, but for some reason I’m holding off, or I’m not sure of the best approach to take.” That is a statement that we at RCG hear over and over again, even from highly successful leaders. What is it that causes people, including high-flying leaders, to hesitate before…
Read MoreThree Critical Points About Successful Conversations
Leaders have an enormous responsibility to convene and conduct conversations where people involved feel free to speak openly without reprimand. Earlier this month we offered three important points to consider when having conversations. They were to 1) Listen fully. 2) Respond by offering genuine and authentic paraphrases. 3) Maintain a mindset of respect and presume positive intent on…
Read MoreIt’s Time For A Feedback Revolution
In February, Karen Anderson shared the opportunity to review and reconnect to the most essential and required skill in your everyday use. The ability to give skillful reflective feedback influences others to: keep working, reconsider, reflect, see possibilities, study more, give more effort, think about another point of view, desire more learning, be affirmed, get motivated,…
Read MoreStop Giving Feedback – Start Asking for Feedback
Continuing with what the Neuroleadership Institute found in their research on FEEDBACK, here are a lot of common misperceptions: We think we hate feedback. When someone asks if they can give us feedback, we hear, “Can I criticize your work so I can feel good about myself?” It’s best to focus on errors. The brain…
Read MoreFocused Practice Feedback – a Kick Starter!
How do we grow people? How do we build and grow their talent, their knowledge and skills? Use those wonderful conversation skills and ask about the goals they have set, the vision for their work, when it all is celebrated, what will they be celebrating? With highly committed employees they just usually need to reconnect to their vision,…
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