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Leadership Tip of The Week: On Developing and Managing Resilience

Leadership in Practice Series Part 3 – Community and Continuing Education and COVID-19: A Brief Exploration

Have you ever heard of community and continuing education, or noncredit education? Yes, no? Either way, that’s okay. Most people know very little about the breadth, accessibility, and availability of community and continuing education. Before taking my current position, as the Director of Extended Learning at Linn-Benton Community College, I knew very little about communityContinue reading “Leadership in Practice Series Part 3 – Community and Continuing Education and COVID-19: A Brief Exploration”

Leadership Video Series 2: Servant Leadership – A Practical Leadership Style for All Aspects of Life

Leadership Video Series 1: Moving From Concept to Execution: Implementing Developmental Growth Opportunities at Work

Leadership in Practice Series Part 2: Creating 90-Day Priorities Inside of a 10-Year Vision

Once your vision is created, then what? Regardless of whether it is a 10-year, 5-year, or 3-year vision, you will need to put plans in place that will connect the daily work to that vision. That is how your 10-year vision will become a reality. What, then, are the first steps to ensure that yourContinue reading “Leadership in Practice Series Part 2: Creating 90-Day Priorities Inside of a 10-Year Vision”

Maintaining Motivation Inside of Innovation: An Investigation and Invitation

A different kind of post today. I am interested in investigating how it is that teams continue to stay motivated, at the individual, and team level, during times of great change and innovation. Have you ever made this consideration? Yes, no? Here is how I began to consider the topic. COVID-19 has created contexts inContinue reading “Maintaining Motivation Inside of Innovation: An Investigation and Invitation”

7 Keys to Balancing Strategic Thinking with the Day-to-Day Operations of Your Team, Business, or Organization

One of the strategies I wrote about in the post, Creating Movement in Your Team, Business, or Organization: 3 Steps in 3 Minutes was creating balance in your workflow in order to balance strategic thinking with the day-to-day operations of your team, business, or organization. It occurred to me that I’ve used multiple strategies theContinue reading “7 Keys to Balancing Strategic Thinking with the Day-to-Day Operations of Your Team, Business, or Organization”

Strategy + Action = Traction

As I was creating a 3-minute video last week on creating movement on teams, I uttered the phrase, strategy plus action, equals traction. And, this is so true. Why? Well, before we look at why, here is that video. Okay, why. Because in order to move a team, business, or organization forward, you must haveContinue reading “Strategy + Action = Traction”