Leadership topic - engage

Engage is step one of the empower framework: leaders who engage lead in clear communication throughout their organizations. Leads with questions, with an open personal presence and outstanding communications skills.  Communicates a compelling and inspired shared vision or sense of core purpose; Creates a climate in which people want to do their best;  Is effective in a variety of formal presentation settings;  one-on-one, small, and large groups; 

Roadblock – Always thinks they have the right and only answer; focuses on the answer, always the smartest person in the room

Start with Positive Intelligence, Change or Preparation, then see how it plays out across the Eric Clapton series.

engaging Performance

engaging Performance

Feb 22, 2021 | , ,

A good friend was leading a workshop for leaders, and it caused me to pause.  She enjoyed drama and theater, including music and dancing which we had discussed often… as hobbies. She was now offering training for managers on Improv, what they shortened “improvisation” to in Performance competitions. Perhaps from my days in Debate, where the Theater people were… “different” – a feeling they had about us also – I thought it was little off.  What would Improv have to do with leadership?  And then… I was called in to engage a team with…. no preparation…

engaging with Harmony

engaging with Harmony

Feb 15, 2021 | , ,

A meme popped up last fall pointing out, in February “…a whopping seven planets (the Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Saturn, plus asteroid Pallas) will all be clustered together in the sign of Aquarius, creating what’s known as a stellium in astrology.  This intense influx of Aquarius’ fixed air sign energy in February will shift our focus to humanitarian issues, technological advancements, and unconventional innovations.  And these themes will guide the framework of our society throughout all of 2021 and the years ahead.”  But didn’t we hear this already – in 1967 – the dawning of the Age of Aquarius?

engaging Rhythm…by Listening

engaging Rhythm…by Listening

Feb 8, 2021 | , , ,

Balance is hard to achieve in any endeavor… until you notice you are getting slightly off-center.  When I conceived of this blog, it would be a little music, a little leadership, and a story to make it memorable. These last few weeks, the leadership insights were like many management books, “Be Like Me,” which I find… not helpful.  I needed to re-engage to establish a new Rhythm. The backbeat: it is Black History Month, so an African American artist focusing on Rhythm – what I call “Management Hygiene.” … there is only one person…