Articles for category: Leadership

Taking the Lead

There is a shift that happens internally when you take the lead. You’re no longer sitting on the sidelines complaining. You’re no longer putting your hand up in meetings to have your say. You’re no longer asking for permission. You’re taking the reins, you’re mobilizing the team, you’re moving forward. You’re taking the Lead.

Preparing for Meetings

If you’re being invite to a meeting, you are one of the select few that have the privilege of being asked to attend and provide your opinion on the matter at hand. You can show up, not read anything, not prepare, not ask any questions. Or you can read what was asked of you, prepare, and ask questions. Showing up is good, Showing up Prepared is bonkers.

The Role You Wanted

The Role You Want at the Time you Don’t Want it – that’s what the title of this post was meant to be – but it was very wordy. I’ve had that happen a number of times – you work hard for something, only not to get it, but then, when you least expect it, it comes back to you, and you aren’t sure why, but the timing’s off – you can accept it. Roles come and go, sorry, the formality of those roles come and go, but in the end the roles are always there for us and you

The Lessons You Learn

The work you do is not necessarily what you’re going to be good at. The work in between that gets the work done is where you are going to excel. In every job, whether it’s fast food, retail, building tables, carpentry, electrical, hedge work, programming, testing, requirements, architecture, etc, etc – it will ALWAYS be the work in between that will make you succeed and it’s here that the greatest lessons you will ever learn will be taken from here. Want to learn a new skill?  Go download a $14 course, buy the book, or get out there and start

Give it Away

Got too much stuff? Give it away. Don’t know what to do with something after staring at it for days? Give it away. Not sure if you are ever going to use it again? Give it away. Know someone who could use it? Give it away. You don’t need to turn a profit on everything, sometimes you can give it away to those that need it most.