New Leader’s Tool to Meet Your Team
A tool to help new leader’s get to know their new team.
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A great leader learns every day. Each experience comes with a lesson. How to learn from these lessons helps you grow to make better decisions or avoid a future mistake. The Society of Human Resource Management released The Skills Gap 2019 showing alarmingly high statistics in multiple skills that employees are missing in the workplace …
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How do you communicate with your employees, peers, bosses, and customers? What words, expressions, and nonverbal cues do you use? How do they communicate in return? Low-Context and High Context communication is widely used to explain cultural differences when conducting international business. Carol Goman explains in detail How Culture Controls Communication differs among countries. I …
When I first started leading teams, I would provide a list of 10 to 12 expectations in an initial meeting while spending a good 20 to 30 minutes covering each. Boy, how boring that must have been! As I’ve developed and matured in leadership roles, the list of expectations shrank to three. I once read …
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I often get asked what it was like to attend the Naval Academy. My initial response, “Well, it definitely wasn’t a typical college experience.” We “chopped” down the hallways as freshmen, wore civilian clothes on liberty our sophomore year, got to drive as Juniors, and got to park our car on The Yard (Academy grounds) …
Writing is a dream that I’ve kept tucked away. I’ve dabbled in a few writing projects from a fitness and health blog (2008-2010) to starting a book manuscript. I’ve paused in both to focus on “real life” which consists of family and a full-time job that pays bills. My passions and experiences are in leadership, wellness …
Leadership, Wellness Coaching, and Family are my passions Read More »