Video: How to Set and Respect Boundaries
In this lesson, we talk about why boundaries make our life so difficult, with 3 challenges in particular. You’ll get some tips on how to draft boundaries that work for you and, especially, how to better honor and respect the boundaries that you and the people you manager set.
What Building Resilience Requires
Maybe the real lesson we'll get out of all this challenge is a stronger sense of resiliency.
Handout: Delivering a Remote Performance Review
Preparing, writing and delivering someone’s annual review is hard enough. Now, some folks may need to deliver a review remotely. I created a checklist that will help if you are finding yourself in this boat.
Video: Keeping Your Team Sane, Focused and Productive
In light of the recent global events, I’ve added this call to address how to manage a remote team in this time of crisis. I share the basics of keeping both you and your team calm and grounded plus some strategies to feel more focused and productive while acclimating to a new normal.
Video: The Stress of Managing Others
Yes, it’s stressful to manage a team. There are projects and personalities, emotions and deadlines, drama and complaints. How do managers learn how to tame stress so they can show and lead more effectively. This training call gives insight into the stressors of management and what to do to relieve it.
Video: Building Trust on Teams
On the topic of trust, managers would be well served to understand how it impacts their ability to lead a team. On this training call, we cover the components of building trust on teams and the conditions that impact who and how we deem people trustworthy. Plus, you’ll learn tips to grow deeper in trust with the people you work with.
3 Words About Bias Every Manager Should Know
Managers must be aware of cognitive habits that may get in the way of being an open, respectful and inclusive leader.. If you want to lead others in a way that’s less biased and more inclusive, be aware of three words that are critical for you to understand.
Motivation is Garbage
Motivation is a feeling. The problem being, we all keep waiting to feel motivated to do the things we don't feel like doing. And that ain't ever gonna happen. Even though we know doing the thing is good for us, that it will bring us some benefit or result.
The Serendipity of Success
I love this idea of the Serendipity of Success, that the universe transpires to help you just at the exact moment you need it, bringing you a person or a resource you weren't expecting that moves you closer to a goal or toward something you were trying to accomplish.
The Karma of Kindness
Believing in Karma is like learning the Golden Rule. It's just what we learn as kids, it's considered truth and we're not to question it, we're just to abide by it. Period, end of story.
Yes, this is all well and good. I leave a good portion of my life up to Karma. (I know for a 100% fact that a couple of very bad things have happened to me as a result of bad Karma juju I emitted to the world). Mostly, though, I believe in the Karma of kindness.
Where Enthusiasm Meets Momentum
Enthusiasm is found in that white space between perseverance and defeat. It is what makes someone stay motivated and keep going and others give up and quit.
So how do you get it and how do you keep it?