“If your emotional abilities aren’t in hand, if you don’t have self-awareness, if you are not able to manage your distressing emotions, if you can’t have empathy and have effective relationships, then no matter how smart you are, you are not going to get very far.” – Daniel Goleman Effective adaptive leaders are continually working … Continue reading Adaptive Leaders: The Leader’s Care
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Tools for Tough Times: Coping Skills
This darn pandemic just won't go away! The fatigue, losses, grief, and stress have been heavy loads for many of you. How you cope with all these factors will be critical to your ability to thrive and stay strong in the storms. Today, we will explore two kinds of coping strategies, avoidant and the active. … Continue reading Tools for Tough Times: Coping Skills
Maximum Maxims
Here a few maxims that I find useful and fruitful in my life. Enjoy! “We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out.” — Teddy Roosevelt “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.” — Epictetus “The best revenge … Continue reading Maximum Maxims
Adaptive Leaders: Self-awareness
"As a man thinks within himself, so he is." - King Solomon “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”- Winston Churchill Jim Kouzes and Barry Posner's great book, “The Leadership Challenge,” makes the case for leadership as a learnable skill set. Their point is that … Continue reading Adaptive Leaders: Self-awareness
Adaptive Leadership: Relational and Influential
“A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” — Lao Tzu Leadership is about people, and the focus of the effective leader is in large part the people who are being led and the beneficiaries of the enterprise that … Continue reading Adaptive Leadership: Relational and Influential
Tools for Tough Times: Avoiding Anger
Clearly there are many divides in our social settings during the pandemic response. Certainly, masks, mandates, and vaccination are some of them. Emotions run surprisingly deep and may surface at any point on any day. One of those emotions is anger. Anger at people and their choices. Anger at systems. Perhaps anger at God. Anger … Continue reading Tools for Tough Times: Avoiding Anger
Effective Adaptive Leadership
“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.“ — John Quincy Adams If you are seeking to make your leadership effective even in the face of adaptive challenges, the following few posts will identify key factors you can apply to your own leadership development. … Continue reading Effective Adaptive Leadership
Tools for Tough Times: Get Out(side)!
Thank you for taking a break from your hectic schedule to read the "Tools for Tough Times" blog. May you find strength, refreshment and courage in it for the day! The winter has been amazing with its surprising amount of moisture. Even though it is a La Nina year, so much of the country … Continue reading Tools for Tough Times: Get Out(side)!
Tools for Tough Times: Gratitude
Today’s tool for tough times is gratitude. We all need to be reminded to express gratitude daily, for it is one of the healthiest actions we can do. Gratitude is like a health food; it does us no good if we never do something with it! We know that grateful people who express heartfelt gratitude … Continue reading Tools for Tough Times: Gratitude
Tools for Tough Times: Mindfulness
Today, remember that you are strong, competent, and fulfilling a vital role in the chain of life for the people you are serving. To help you stay strong in the storms that accompany your mission, check out these ideas on the simple practice of mindfulness. Mindfulness meditation supports healthy responding and well-being even in stressful … Continue reading Tools for Tough Times: Mindfulness
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