Leading Life: In focus
It's hard to believe that we’ve already arrived at the final post in the Leading Life series! Where has the time gone? We’ll wrap up by spending a few minutes focusing on… focus.
Leading Life: Trust me
Today we’ll turn our attention to a critical ingredient of all successful relationships, both personal and professional: trust.
Leading Life: Less is more
The message that’s been buzzing around me over the past couple of weeks is this: “Less prep, more presence.”
Leading Life: Story problems
We glance over at a colleague during a high-stakes meeting and notice the frown on his face. Immediately, our mind gets to work… "He hates this idea. He’s going to do everything possible to kill my proposal..."
Leading Life: Day by day
In this post, I’ll concentrate on a simple and poweful technique called “daily questions,” recommended by Marshall Goldsmith.
Leading Life: A value proposition?
In the first post in the Leading Life series, I shared simple steps for crafting a life-purpose statement. Here, we’ll focus on clarifying our values.
Leading Life: It’s all you
Whether you’re a higher-ed leader trying to maintain some sense of balance or someone who simply wants to spend a bit more time focusing on things that matter, I think you’ll find tools here that can help.
On the fence
Setting boundaries seems easy in theory, but it’s much harder in practice, especially when people start bumping up against those boundaries and expressing their displeasure—sometimes subtly, sometimes not.
To thine own self be true
In the past week, two different people have shared the same quote with me: “The way we do anything is the way we do everything.”
Teaching… and learning
Students, colleagues, family members,… people in general will sometimes do things that make us feel “less than.” It often has nothing to do with you.
To-do-list tantrums? NAH.
I have an unfortunate tendency to feel burdened by a sense of responsibility and obligation. Thankfully, I’ve stumbled upon some simple strategies that have helped me deal with almost any to-do list.