It’s ok to be a leader who doesn’t have answers, but instead invites a pause, listens, and creates space to sit in the uncertainty. Have compassion for one another, loads and buckets and overflowing amounts of compassion for those around you.
Read MoreThe reason why we confidently make thousands of micro-decisions a day is because we’ve built up those habits and rhythms over time by experience. We stacked up millions of taste-test moments in our lives to know our likes/dislikes/preferences and we act accordingly. And when we begin to look at large scale decisions, it’s no different.
Read MoreWhat I learned was that those desired outcomes of productivity are what actually drove me to this place of running. The desire to keep pushing and grinding through my days left no time to think, feel or process the weight of this past year. What I thought I wanted was actually the problem. The thought of productivity was masking the processing of a collective heaviness.
Read MoreMy team was on the verge of burnout. Towards the end of 2020, I was sensing exhaustion and a lack of motivation with my team. As I was noticing my team move towards burnout, I knew something needed to change, and for change to occur, I had to pay attention and be curious to the current reality of my team.
Read MoreHere’s what I’ve learned about transitions - each of us approach and respond differently based on the type of transition, whether it was expected, planned, anticipated, or unexpected. Remember that recent change you experienced?
Read MoreTheory is great, but practice is better. I learn by doing and a fundamental component of these morning routines is to get up and do them. There is power in a shared experience and this experiment is no different.
Read MoreMartha is the Global Communications Leader at lululemon, but more importantly, a dear friend who values leader development. Catch these episodes where we chatted about goals she has accomplished and how she frames them in meetings with her team. Listen and learn from a leader who I have seen do goal-setting and habit-tracking in a way that is second nature.
Read MoreAnd when we don’t give ourselves time to reflect after key leadership decisions and our subsequent behaviors, we miss the opportunity for learning. We forget, we move on, we have to put our mental and emotional energy into the next task. But what happens when we slow down and consider creation of our own feedback loop…
Read MoreClear says, “You should be far more concerned with your current trajectory than with your current results.”
Read MoreYou choose how to bundle, you choose how to define those words, you choose how the experiences of your life define and transform you, and those words that make up your values have incredibly profound meaning to you, dear leader.
Read MoreSo I asked. I sent out a message to 20 leaders across industries - entrepreneurs and consultants, educators, women in business and the nonprofit sector, and I asked them to thing of the top 5 words that they immediately think of for the following prompt: “A leader is ___________.”
Read MoreRemember when I said a person with a growth mindset would see failure as a way to reveal spaces to grow? When we begin to see failure as a mile marker on our way to new opportunities, we know that means we are getting closer to our destination.
Read MoreVisualization is a practice: Decide what you want, picture it, map out and visualize every step you need to take to get there, and revisit it ALL THE TIME.
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