Does your calendar sync up with your Life Plan? Watch as Daniel shares some tips to make sure your calendar and Life Plan are working together.
Be Healthy (Increasing Your Leadership Capacity Series — Step 2 of 8)
December 23rd, 2011In order to increase our leadership capacity, we must truly believe that self leadership precedes our ability to effectively lead others. I am simply calling this step Be Healthy. Note: This post is part of a series on Increasing Your Leadership Capacity. Click here for the previous step.
A healthy leader replicates and attracts healthy followers. And the converse is true as well: an unhealthy leader replicates and attracts those who are unhealthy.
In order to be effective, we as leaders must be healthy in how we think, how we process, how we care for ourselves and those closest to us, how we treat our teams, how we deal with challenges and how we communicate.
Here are some questions to ask yourself to help you identify where you might be able to improve your health — and ultimately your ability to lead.
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8 Steps to Increase Your Leadership Capacity (Series)
December 16th, 2011This topic is front and center for me right now as the CEO of Building Champions. I know that we must be very intentional with how we tap into and develop those that are on the team. They all have gifts, talents and passions that if intentionally developed will enable them to help the organization grow in the years ahead.
So many times, leaders will make the mistake of looking externally for this needed capacity before really examining who on the team has the potential to fit the need and already understands the DNA and lingo of their culture.
Over the next several weeks, I will share one step per post to help you grow your leadership capacity and expand your organization’s reach and effectiveness.
Step #1 — Own Your Role
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Leadership Moment — Strive to Simplify
December 12th, 2011What is simple is understood — and what is understood gets done. Listen as Daniel encourages leaders to find ways to simplify their processes to improve their leadership.
Leadership Moment: Make a Lunch Date
December 5th, 2011How are you using your lunches? In this Leadership Moment, Daniel talks about how he uses his Monday Lunch Dates to invest in himself and his marriage — making him a better leader for it.
