Ash cloud knocked you off course?
For 15 years I traveled extensively for work, at least between London and Ireland each week and often much further. I racked up a huge carbon footprint with at least 2 flights, trains and car journeys every week
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Want to be a great leader? Start by putting yourself first
Serving others is, in my opinion, the only great way to lead.
So it may sound counter-intuitive to say you must put yourself first. Yet this is a lesson I learned the hard way whilst striving to become more of a Servant-leader to large corporate teams. I learned that you must put your own well being first, because if you don’t, you won’t have anything to give to people working alongside you. And when you take care of yourself, you role model this approach and multiply the benefit.
After many false starts, I learned to treat my energy like a rechargeable battery, but the 'Aha' came with knowing that consistent recharging is essential, or your battery gets so low you are unable to top up overnight.
When was the last time you came out of a meeting energised and motivated? Do meetings suck the life blood out of you? A UK study showed we waste a year of our lives in meaningless meetings.
Save your team from this fate!
Read on for my tips on how to invigorate your meetings and generate the best thinking, engagement and outcomes.
You have an important project dominating your thoughts.
You feel the time ticking towards the deadline.
You must get started but everything else gets in the way.
With every hour that passes you feel rising panic.
During my career I had the perfect set of reasons excuses why I was unable to get going on a project. My diary was booked back to back, I was waiting on input from someone else, the project goalposts were always changing, there were always other fires to fight. These may have been true, but they were excuses. The problem was with me, I was stuck on my own red light.
If this sounds familiar, help is at hand. Grab my Cheat Sheet at the end of this article and use these tips to turn your red light to green.