Winning Leaders

As you consider your day, your week, this quarter, what is holding you back from achieving what you have planned or working to achieve? Are constant interruptions the challenge? Unplanned meetings or events? Are they external reasons, i.e., phone calls, email, employees, boss, clients? Or are they internal reasons, limiting beliefs – i.e., false assumptions, everything has to be perfect, fear- of success, of failure, of

How often have you heard the response, “busy”, to a simple question, “How are you doing?” Recently I read a great blog, “Leadership Resilience-Step One” by Dave Schrader, here is an excerpt. Does this describe your schedule? “In the busyness and pressure of leading and working on any organizational transformation, it is a severe temptation for us to fill our schedules to the brink of

In the past, I spent so much time coming up with the right resolutions for a new year I would almost miss when New Year’s arrived and only to forget about them in less than a month. Since then I have enjoyed reflecting on my year sometime in December and setting goals for the new year remembering all aspects of life, not just business. Looking at

Recently I attended the Global Leadership Summit where Craig Groeschel led a session entitled, “Becoming a Leader People Love to Follow”. Sounds intriguing, doesn’t it? The title makes a leader ask if they are this kind of leader. In the session, he quotes a Forbes article where employers and employees were asked the same question, “What do employees need from a boss to become better?”

As Arizona temperatures rise, it is a great season for reading, webinars, and conferences in cooler climates. I have recently been attending a couple virtual professional development summits. Each book, webinar, or seminar challenges me to take some action as I move forward in my work, and many provide great inspiration and encouragement. One theme that I heard repeatedly was about being curious. Curiosity opens