Build Leadership Into Your Brand Now
How to do that?
Extraordinary Coaches
7 attributes
Defining Corporate Culture
Why is it critical?
6 Challenges Successful Leaders Face
Actionable intelligence for leaders
Build Leadership Into Your Brand Now
How to do that?
Extraordinary Coaches
7 attributes
Defining Corporate Culture
Why is it critical?
6 Challenges Successful Leaders Face
Actionable intelligence for leaders
Trustworthiness is an asset leaders can’t be effective without. So, what happens when a leader’s trustworthiness gets compromised? If trust takes a hit, is the leader’s effectiveness permanently damaged? Or, is there a path forward – steps a leader can take to break through, rebuild trust, and regain credibility?
If you buy a little goldfish and keep it in a small bowl it will remain no bigger than a few inches long. Move that same fish to a large aquarium and it will double or triple in size. Put the goldfish in a large pond and it can grow up to a foot long! The biggest factor that determines the size of the fish is the size of its environment. And so it is with people.
The ability of an organization to respond to changes in both its internal and external environment is called agility. An organization’s agility is paramount to its long term, and often its short term success. The turbulence that businesses have been experiencing in the last several decades is not going away. Whether the challenges are created by political, climatic or economic events, the organization must respond rapidly, or whither, possibly dying in the process.
Within your broader image is your brand as a leader. Your reputation as a leader may take years to fully develop, but it begins long before you manage a team or have a lofty title. Even when you’re just starting out, your leadership reputation influences how much people trust you and whether they want to work with you.
With back-to-back meetings, an endless to-do list and overflowing inboxes, many leaders hit the accelerator hard in the morning and don’t let up until the sun goes down. This has many operating from an “act first, reflect later” mindset. It’s a syndrome of “Ready, Fire, Aim.” The challenge is for leaders to reshuffle that sequence so that actions become intentional in order to accomplish big, positive impacts.