How Effective Are We as an Executive Leadership Team?
By AdminAJ 
From our experience working with Executive Leadership Teams here are 7 things that they are intentional about measuring.
By AdminAJ Powerful Leaders vs. Forceful Leaders
By AdminAJ 
We tend to confuse power with force. Force makes things happen or makes people do what we want but force drains your energy and provides temporary fixes. Power offers clarity about and alignment of our purposes. With power, the right things get done with ease and provides sustainability. There is no force in power.
Showing up “Fully” for your Team
By AdminAJ 
Being an effective leader transcends mere authority; it demands a deep comprehension of the ripple effect one’s presence & impact has on team dynamics.
Leadership Culture
By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on building a Leadership Culture in the workplace and how it impacts the overall results of your organization.
Design an Effective Meeting
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This month we are focusing on the power of feedback to improve individual performance, to surface our relationship to feedback, and to identify potential barriers that hold us back from using feedback to be a more effective leader.
Stuck
By AdminAJ 
Back in 2018, we wrote a short paper called Are You Stuck (5 min read), looking at self-awareness and how it impedes your ability to be in action. This is more prevalent today as demands for performance and results are at an all-time high, requiring more recovery.
This month we want to look at leading others that are stuck.
Leading CEOs Share Their Game-Changing Strategies for 2024
By AdminAJ 
Here are three themes from the Q4 of 2023 that are showing up consistently in our conversations with the Executive Leaders we support.
Leading your Team Through Change
By AdminAJ 
This month we start to look at Team Leadership and the challenges of dealing with change as we work to evolve as an organization.
Why It Matters
No company or organization can operate the same way forever. Businesses must constantly evolve and adapt to meet a variety of challenges—from changes in technology to the rise of new competitors, to inflation or supply chain disruptions. Failure to change can and most likely will lead to stagnation or, worse, poor results and layoffs. So why do teams struggle with change?
Leadership Strategy
For any organization facing the prospect of change, the first step is to create a climate where your team learns the language of “being with change”. Learning to “be with change” will allow your team to co-create future possibilities.
To support leaders who can build teams that can be with change, begins with learning to listen for what your team’s relationship with change is.
Are they:
1. Coping with Change = A mindset of being closed, critical and judgmental
OR
2. Adapting to Change = A mindset of being open, curious, and in possibilities
Leadership Challenge
Over the next 30 days spend time learning to assess where each of your team members is in their relationship to change. Are they coping with or adapting to change?
Awesome Read (15 min):
Change Video by Malcolm Gladwell — What World Awaits Gen Z
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
Becoming a Learning Organization
By AdminAJ 
This month we are looking at Organizational Leadership and the importance of becoming a “Learning Organization”.
Why It Matters
For organizations to continue to succeed in today’s ever-changing landscape, they need to fight the urge to settle or be complacent. Many organizations find success and expect it to just last. Please, go buy a Kodak camera or rent a movie from Blockbuster. Both companies were pioneers in their field; Kodak invented the digital camera technology and dismissed it, not taking the time to “learn” what was happening at the frontline.
Leadership Strategy
The first step in becoming a learning organization is to become a great Listening Organization. The best organizations have processes and structures to listen up, down and outside the entire organization on a constant basis, not just in the boardroom.
Starbucks Execs and head office partners spend time in their stores donning an apron, so they are with the customer and their partners and learn firsthand what the organization needs to focus on.
Leadership Challenge
Ask each of your senior leaders to spend some time in the frontline and report back on what they have learned.
Awesome Resources:
The Importance Of Listening For Organizational Success (5-minute read)
Culture of Deep Listening Video (5-minute video)
Have an Awesome Month Leading with Impact!
Fall 2022 Program is full
Next program early 2023
Leadership – How it Impacts Performance
By AdminAJ 
This month we are focusing on Performance and how Leadership plays a critical role in its success.
Why it Matters
Leadership is the most important ingredient to increase the performance of any organization.
You can tell the level of leadership by the overall success the organization is generating. They are producing consistent, repeatable, and reliable results.
Leadership Strategy
Leadership and performance go hand in hand with trust. The more leaders both demand and demonstrate their trustworthiness by being sincere, competent, reliable, and involved, the better results they will see from employee performance.
Leadership Challenge
Start to measure your team’s level of trust that improve performance by answering these questions:
- Integrity (Sincerity) – How well do we follow through on our promises?
- Competency – How well do we provide feedback for improvement?
- Reliability – Are we meeting our timelines?
- Involvement – How well do we show up for meetings to participate fully?
Answer the questions above and start building trust to improve performance, a key tool to being a great leader!
Awesome Watch (3 min)
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