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How do leaders deliver difficult news?

One of the most difficult rooms a leader walks into is a boardroom with a human resources officer and an employee or who needs to be terminated from their position. The energy is thick with wonder and waiting. There is anticipation with a badge in hand. They all nervously wait and listen. Sometimes they are angry, anxious, or hungry for information. The leader hasn't had to fire a physician or another executive before. This is tricky.

There is a delicate balance between directly saying what is up. Saying “you're fired” but saying it with compassion and listening to them as well. They might say, “We've tried XYZ and it's simply not a good fit or alignment anymore.” Depending on the situation, there may room for explanation but, usually no explanation is required, and this should not be a surprise. Maybe there is an option for a package severance with a non-disclosure clause? Maybe another option suits everyone better – we can be flexible and listen to...

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3 Simple employee engagement strategies for executive leaders.

 

Executive leaders, your engagement is crazy important.  Your team engagement will effect your overall success! 

Engagement is the most valuable measure of employee productivity and loyalty. Ensuring that your employees have creative, playful, healthy connected opportunities for their work will help them serve others without getting burned out.  Focusing on their engagement will revolutionize your experience as a leader as you all become more engaged, purposeful, and healthy and achieve catalytic results.   And when your employees are engaged you have less turnover and recruitment expenses, less conflict management and way more creative solutions. 

So, if you are looking for ways to keep your employees ignited, even during change, uncertainty or even chaos, these strategies are for you. 

Here are three simple strategies for getting 100% employee engagement

Number 1.    Be Vulnerable  Share your current reality.  Even if it...

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A Call To Rise For Leaders: 3 Ways to Rise NOW

 

 

WE NEED LEADERS RIGHT NOW.

We need you to RISE and be your BEST most INFLUENTIAL leader in EVERY context.

This is a call to RISE, Leaders. We need leaders now more than ever. It's time to LEAD BOLDLY.

To respond to the call to rise, here are three opportunities to rise that I expand upon in this video:

#1:  Use yourself intentionally with compassion, grace, and vulnerability. 

#2:  Meet people where they are.

Remember: Presence is healing. 

#3:  Strengthen your foundation.

We need leaders right now.

We need you to rise and be your best, most positive, influential leader in every context, at home, at work, in your community, in every interaction.

This is your opportunity to champion togetherness and pride. To LEAD BOLDLY.

If this video is useful, please share it with everyone because the more we are all leading by influencing and inspiring each other, the easier and more fun it will be to get through uncertainty and crisis. 

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3 Tips for Effective Leadership During Times of Fear

 

 

It's getting a bit crazy out there. How you show up during times of crisis is pivotal, and determines what results we get.

Are we leading from fear or leading from love?

Check out this video and find out how we all can be more effective and productive leaders during times of fear.

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3 Differences Between Leadership and Management

 

 

Today, we're unpacking the difference between leaders and managers, and why we need them both. Watch this video to learn more!

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