Do you feel like sometimes you have been forced into a corner of rising expectations and demands? Last week, we talked about why rest is so important. Alex Soojung-Kim Pang, author of Rest, believes, “When we take the right to rest and practice rest we make our lives richer and more fulfilling.” I would agree. Of all of my life…
When practiced well, rest can make us more productive, creative and focused both in our professional and private lives.
Last week, I divulged one of my core values: Radical transparency. I would like to unpack it a bit more this week. Radical transparency helps build trust and safety within teams. The more transparent and real a leader can be, the more it encourages those we lead to follow suit. It basically says to them, “Hey, I am sharing at…
Radical openness and transparency are key ingredients to growth and healing.
In my coaching conversations, I help my clients develop a road map of where they want to go and I tell them that the vehicle we use to get there will be their vision statements and the gas in the tank will be their core values.
Successful people not only have core principles they live by, but they also write them down.
Ideally, we should aim for around three to five people in our lives to help encourage us, motivate us, hold us accountable and appropriately challenge us.
High performers consistently resolve the tension and disappointment of failing much differently than those they are outperforming. What is the difference? They are fueled by the possibility of “better” instead of being defeated by it. “When these high performers are confronted with failure, they are inspired to keep trying. They don’t judge themselves for missing the mark. Their desire and…
In my Overcoming Adversity presentation, I talk quite a bit about failing. Failure can be very paralyzing at times. What would happen if a SEAL Platoon was paralyzed by fear on a target? We would all die. Similarly, although not as severe, if we allow our failures to impede our progress, we will cease to grow and move forward in…
Pointing out one positive aspect of someone’s performance or personality and ending with another positive makes constructive feedback (the meat in the middle) more palatable.
