Leadership

What Every Employee Needs to Know About Leading a Team (Even if You Don’t Lead a Team)

In this training session, we learn tools to be a stronger leader, no matter your job title. We cover essential self-leadership skills and give you ideas to help you positively contribute to the work culture around you.

Key learning points: 
✅  The #1 Leadership Enhancer - Boosting self-awareness is easy and impactful
✅  One size doesn't fit all - Learning how to flex your communication and approach
✅  Your Difference Maker - Getting intentional with feedback to speed up growth and development

 
 
 
 
 

Additional Resources Coming Soon

Why Self-Leadership?  by Birkman.com- Delves into the benefits of self-leadership, including increased self-esteem, better decision-making, and improved resilience. It emphasizes that self-leadership is crucial for all individuals, regardless of their formal position.    (Article)

"The Look & Sound of Leadership" with Tom Henschel
This podcast frequently addresses adaptive leadership strategies, focusing on how leaders can enhance their leadership presence and tailor their communication to different team members. Listen here. (Podcast)

"Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think" by Tasha Eurich (Revised Edition, 2018)
This book delves deep into self-awareness, providing tools and techniques for leaders to better understand themselves and their impact on others. (Book)

Reflection Pitfalls: Improving How You Look Back to Boost How You Move Forward

This month’s call is on the topic of Reflection Pitfalls: Improving How You Look Back to Boost How You Move Forward. Cecilia will share new ideas on how to reflect on 2023 in a way that serves your growth and optimism for the new year ahead.

The end of a year is a great time to reflect and a lot of people are doing so in a way that doesn’t serve them. On this call, we’ll learn common habits and pitfalls that you might be doing and gain new ways to extract lessons and learnings to better impact 2024.

We'll cover:
✅ 3 Common Reflection Practices and Why They May Not Work
✅ A New Model to Review Your Year
✅ Tips to Impact Your Work and Life in 2024

Additional Resources

"The Power of Now" by Eckhart Tolle - This book explores the importance of living in the present moment and the impact of reflection on personal growth. (Book)

"Atomic Habits" by James Clear - While not about reflection per se, it provides insights into building positive habits, which often involves reflection on one's behaviors. (Book)

"Making a New Year's Resolution? Don't Go to War With Yourself." Interview from The Atlantic discussing resilient goals and how "the difference between not doing anything at all and doing 10 minutes a few times a week is absolute." (Article)

"Stop Being So Hard on Yourself" from Harvard Business Review discussing how you can take a more balanced, emotionally equanimous approach to your performance. (Article)

"The Power of Mindfulness: What You Practice Grows Stronger" by Shauna Shapiro. Shauna Shapiro discusses the transformative power of mindfulness and how it can enhance self-reflection. (TED Talk)

Navigating Personal Hardships At Work (Yours and Those of Others)

This month’s call is with Christie Bishop, an Advertising & Marketing Executive, and host of the podcast, “What Nobody Tells Us.” Prior to starting her own Marketing Strategy consultancy firm in 2021, Christie spent nearly two decades in Executive roles leading North American and Global Strategic Planning teams both at agencies and in-house.

At home, Christie was (and continues to be) the primary caregiver for her husband, Bryan, through his ongoing treatment for brain cancer. During this call, we'll dive into how Christie's experiences have helped her support not only herself, but also her teams, colleagues and direct reports through personal hardships of their own. These tips are especially important, given they apply to personal situations that a lot of employees often hide from others.”

We'll cover:
What Personal Hardships are and the Impact They Can Have at WorkTools & Tips to Navigate Personal Hardship as:

✅ An Individual Employee (yourself)

✅ A Manager or Leader supporting a direct report or colleague

✅ A Colleague Supporting Another Colleague

Additional Resources

"How To Handle Personal Issues in the Workplace (Plus Tips)" (Indeed)

"What to Do When a Personal Crisis Is Hurting Your Professional Life" (Harvard Business Review)

”How to Keep Working During Personal Hardship” (Forbes)

Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy by Sheryl Sandberg and Adam Grant - This book discusses how to navigate personal hardships, including grief and loss, and find resilience and happiness.

The Tim Ferris Show (Podcast)

Moving from Conflict to Collaboration

During this call, Cecilia will teach the topic of Moving From Conflict to Collaboration. In this session, you'll learn about the dynamics of conflict and ways to better embrace our role in the situation and, ultimately, how to get to better collaboration at work.

You'll gain tools and messaging to better approach and solve situations where changes, personalities, or problems may cause things to get sticky.

✅  The Conflict Dynamic That Impedes Us at Work
✅  Steps to De-Escalate & Reduce Conflict
✅  A New View on Collaboration

The Art of Selling Yourself: Interview with Lisa Earle McLeod

Selling yourself, your work, and your greatness can feeling challenging, especially for women. During this call Lisa will share:

✅  The elements of confidently selling yourself 
✅  What to do when your high quality-work isn’t enough to get you the rewards you seek
✅  How to strengthening personal worth 

Lisa will take tools and insights from her book Selling with Noble Purpose, geared towards sellers, and share them through a lens which can be utilized by anyone marketing for selling themselves.

Lisa is a global advisor, consultant and speaker. She is an expert in sales, leadership and emotional engagement helping major companies such as Sales Force, LinkedIn, and Dave and Busters. She’s the author of five bestselling books.

EVERYONE GETS LONELY: What To Do When It Hits You

Public crisis and epidemic are words we're now seeing next to loneliness. Even prior to COVID-19, nearly half of U.S. adults reported experiencing loneliness. During this talk, Chelsea Szabo will explore loneliness with a fresh perspective.

You'll learn how to empower yourself to use loneliness as a springboard into a more connected and fulfilled life ... both in and out of the office. 

Learn: 

✅  The #1 thing most people don't realize is behind loneliness  
✅  The 3 crucial relationships you must invest in to fend off loneliness (everyone is currently in a relationship with these 3 things) 
✅  What fuels loneliness and how to stop feeding it 

Daring to Lead: Interview with Susie Lim, GCD WundermanThompson

Brené Brown shares her candid and powerful perspective on leadership in her book, Dare to Lead.

In this session, Cecilia interviewed an advertising creative veteran on her steady rise up the ranks. They used Brené's book as a framework for the discussion and revealed Susie's insights and tips that relate to the Dare to Lead message and uncover how Susie boosted her leadership impact and overcame challenges along the way.

Teaching Points:

✅ Daring Leadership and Vulnerability
✅ The Risk of Emotional Exposure
✅ Where Leadership Needs Us to be Most Courageous

The UPSide of Failure with author Tiana Sanchez

In this interactive discussion, Tiana Sanchez, author of F’d Up: The UPSide of Failure shares how failure can be one of our greatest teachers if we embrace the power of its lessons. Especially now, in this changing work environment, being able to take risks and stretch our skills is critical - which potentially results in failure.

Tiana answered discussion questions and presented ways to impact our belief around failure and boost our resilience to grow from it.

Key Learning Points:
✅ What it takes to harvest a growth mindset
✅ What failure does for us
✅ A new way to look at defeat

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