10 Essential Leadership Lessons
For most of my life, I was told that I was a “natural” leader, but it wasn’t until adulthood that I truly understood what it meant to lead effectively. Through a decade-long journey of personal growth and professional development, I discovered that true leadership extends beyond titles and loud voices. It’s about personal change, integrating values, and inspiring others.
In this blog post, I share my Top 10 Essential Leadership Lessons, designed to help you transform yourself, your team, and your business.
Letting Go and Embracing a Growth Mindset
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Why You Need a Plan to Exit Your Business
Learn why having an exit strategy from the day you start your business is crucial.
Explore the three exit options, understand risk management, business valuation, and the importance of personal vision in planning your business exit.
Leveraging DISC for Small Business Success
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Books for Summer Reading
If you are looking to read some books to stay up to date on leadership concepts or develop a greater understanding of the current issues facing business owners, here are my top 5 books for your Summer reading list.
Lead With Your Heart
Have you ever felt as a leader that even when you have changed your actions or habits, you are still not achieving the desired results? When we change our leadership style from a self-focused leader to a lead with your heart leader, we begin to truly impact the lives of those around you.
Moving Forward After Experiencing Failure
Experiencing failure is a part of life, and it can be a painful and difficult experience. However, it is also an opportunity for growth and learning.
These tips help you move forward, stay positive and set new goals.
Goal Setting Tips
Goal setting is an essential practice that helps us focus on what we want to achieve and develop a plan to make it happen.
The greatest challenge occurs when we do not achieve our goal or when it takes longer than we expected to achieve the goal.
4 Steps to Effective Delegation
Delegation places the work where the most appropriate person can do it and it frees up our time for the most important tasks. This will expand the depth of the team for future success.
How to Build a Winning Team
Leaders know that a shared purpose is more powerful than a collection of individual accomplishments.
Just like when kids are chasing a ball all over the field, teams can sometimes feel as though they are doing the work, but not producing the results.
How to build trust in your team
A leader builds trust within their team to ensure that those around them are invested in their cause. Building trust guarantees a team will perform at its peak.
In fact, trust is what will make a team perform, not goals or metrics.
10 Leadership Lessons
A leader’s journey begins with their own personal change and therefore they must lead themselves at least 50% of the time before they can effectively lead others.
Leaders of today do not rely on their authority to get things done. They recognize other’s strengths and cultivate these strengths to release future leaders to prosper and grow.