Leaders Need a Push Too

Happiness comes from the inside out.  If you are leading, and you’re not happy, quit!  Give yourself and your team a break!  Happier people live longer!

Taking time to renew your spirit and  balance all areas of your life including physical, mental, spiritual, and social/emotional, ensures a highly effective leader.  To neglect any one area  negatively impacts the rest.   A leader must also give recognition to each of these dimensions in their organization’s mission statement in order to provide a […]

Learning to lead with self awareness allows you to self manage.  Then you have the skills to lead and manage others.  Stephen Covey’s 7 Habits are so very practical that they teach them to children in schools.  They are understanding self awareness at a very young age.

Building a culture using Stephen Covey’s “7 Habits of Highly Effective People” makes a leader’s job so much easier.  Learn them and apply them and transform the way you lead.

A great culture is based on trust.  It begins with the leader, but it ends with the involvement of everyone.  A great team doesn’t always build a great culture, but a great culture builds a great team.  What comes first in your organization?

Leaders have people who follow them, while managers have people who work for them.  However, to be a successful business owner one needs to be both a strong leader and manager to get their team to help them reach their goals.  Understanding how to move from one to the other takes emotional intelligence.  Self awareness […]

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, become more, you are a leader.”  John Quincy Adams “Leadership is a matter of having people look at you and gain confidence, seeing how you react.  If you are in control, they are in control.”  Tom Landry

It is very difficult to lead if we don’t trust others and their motives.  Feeling the need to micromanage to ensure perfection, or to insist it has to be done your way disempowers employees creativity.

Dr. Eric Berne the author of Games People Play, talks about the adult ego state.  As leaders we need to understand the importance of managing our emotions and responding in the here and now, not from past tapes that don’t belong to us.  Speaking our truth without judgement allows the people around us to do […]

We continue our discussion on the three Ego State as outlined in Dr. Eric Berne’s book “Games People Play”, and  Amanda Knight’s Successful Relationship Accelerator report.  We look at what happens when our emotions take us back into our childhood.