What can you do to encourage joy, love, and imagination in your teams and circles? Especially during difficult times, it can be hard to find the positive in our day-to-day lives. A negative mindset can limit our ability to innovate, solve complex problems, and generally enjoy ourselves. What’s a leader to do? Have you workedContinue reading “Powerful Questions for Leaders, no. 19”

How do you silence your inner critic? We all have an inner critic and it serves an important purpose in both our personal and work lives. But when the inner critic is not balanced by an “inner editor”, the result is oftentimes conflict, stalemates, and low productivity and innovation. So what is your inner criticContinue reading “Powerful Questions for Leaders, no. 16”

What do your employees need to stay? Leaders the world over are stressing about the hashtag#greatresignation. With employment pipelines drying up and a dazzling array of open positions, it’s no wonder you’re feeling this way. How on earth will you find new employees and, perhaps more importantly, hang on to the ones you already have?Continue reading “Powerful Questions for Leaders, no. 15”

What situations will you put yourself in where you can experience being an outsider, the other, or the minority? In turn, what will you do to increase inclusion in your circles? It’s hard to appreciate the challenges others face if you’ve never been in their shoes. Having new and varied experiences that put us inContinue reading “Powerful Questions for Leaders, no. 14”

Now, more than ever, we need to bring human connection back into the workplace. What experiments are you running to retain and attract the best people in this unprecedented time? If you’re not yet experimenting, what’s the smallest step you could take and when will you start? What do you see other organizations doing thatContinue reading “Powerful Questions for Leaders, no. 13”

How have you seen self doubt affect individuals, teams, and organizations?

How do your implicit biases affect the success of your team(s) and organization(s) Leaders are in a unique position to interrupt implicit bias, but first we need to know what our own implicit biases are (after all, we all have them). Try the Implicit Association Test (IAT) from Project Implicit, Inc. at Harvard University toContinue reading “Powerful Questions for Leaders, no. 11”

“Power is cheap. Give it away.” I used to work with a manger who often said something along these lines. What have you done recently to give power away? Hat tip to Gregory Lovinski for the inspiration.