In an airport yesterday I glanced down and saw the title of a book about the legendary comedian Red Skelton. It was titled, the Mask Behind the Mask. I had two immediate thoughts – my Dad would have loved that book, and I don’t know about Red, but that title applies to many of us,
Yesterday, on the Guest conversation Call as a part of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System, my guest Timothy Johnson was asked how to deal with resistance to process improvement efforts in the form of “I don’t have time.” His answer was brief, to the point, and completely correct. He pointed out that we all have
Perhaps I should keep this post short. If we all read and took action on the three word title of this post, we would all be more effective starting today and forever. I was reminded to share this key leadership skill with you today because of the quotation I shared in our Powerquotes Plus newsletter
Recent research on why leaders use executive coaching is instructive for all of us. the research, cited here, includes the following reasons: 1. Sharpening the leadership skills of high potential individuals 2. Correcting leadership skill gaps 3. Improving success rate, or reducing risk of failure of new leaders 4. Correcting employee relations problems 5. Providing
Questions – they are a critical to the ultimate success of a Remarkable Leader. They support our leadership influence and our leadership communication (and a lot more). Yet the power of questions and the skills in asking them effectively is rarely included in leadership skill training. This month members of the Remarkable Leadership Learning System are working
On my Remarkable Learning blog I recently wrote about the dangerous and powerful question we can use. (While you will want to read the post, the question is “Why?”) On Twitter I recently tweeted “Remarkable Leaders are great question askers.” Which got a number or retweets and comments. In part because of these recent events, and
In our Powerquotes email service today, I sent out this quotation: “In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made.” — Cicero While this is true for all of us, it is especially true for leaders. Because while some (relatively small) percentage of the population are naturally inclined to plan, most of us
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