Leadership Failures
Is Leadership a Convenient Scapegoat for Personal Failures?
Balancing Grit
The Paradox of Mental Toughness: Balancing Grit with Emotional Flexibility
The Ceiling
This article will discuss what a ceiling is, whether there is a way around it, and if so, how. It is designed to provide a talking point and provoke thought-provoking conversations.
We Fear Change, but Should We Lean into It?
Change is an inherent part of life, yet for many it evokes fear, discomfort, and resistance. What if we reframed our perspective and embraced change as an opportunity for growth, learning, and transformation? Let us look at three key insights highlighting the importance of leaning into change and embracing its potential for personal and collective development.
What is Balance – The Duality of Life
Balance is a fundamental concept that underlies the harmony and stability in our lives. It encompasses the delicate equilibrium between opposing forces, the recognition of duality, and the ability to navigate the complexities of existence. Let us explore three key insights into what balance truly means and why understanding its duality is essential in the mission of life.
Do You Worry About What Other People are Thinking of You?
Worry:
The Neuroscience of Trust
Companies are twisting themselves into knots to empower and challenge their employees. They’re anxious about the sad state of engagement, and rightly so, given the value they’re losing. Consider Gallup’s meta-analysis of decades’ worth of data: It shows that high engagement—defined largely as having a strong connection with one’s work and colleagues, feeling like a real contributor, and enjoying ample chances to learn—consistently leads to positive outcomes for both individuals and organizations. The rewards include higher productivity, better-quality products, and increased profitability.
Hold Fast. Stay True
“Hold Fast. Stay True.” Is a nautical phrase that originated in the days of wooden sailing ships. In a storm sailors would tell each other to “Hold Fast”, meaning to grab on to rigging or something solid and secure that had weathered previous storms to prevent being swept overboard. “Stay True” was the direction to the man at the helm to stay true to the compass heading to avoid being blown far off course.
Lies, Bluster and Blame
The Biggest Lie.
Beware the Cheerleaders
“I start with the premise that the function of leadership [courses] is to produce more leaders, not more followers.” – Ralph Nader
The power of investing 1% of your day in personal growth
While 1% improvement can be hard to measure what if you committed to spending just 1% of your day on self-improvement? 1% of your day is 14 minutes and 24 seconds. (You could round it up to 15 minutes for ease of the math and the timer.)
The Inclusive Leader
Origionally Publiched: FBINN Newsletter, Tuesday, March 15, 2022
Imagine Vs. Visualize
There are a number of scientific theories about how the human mind processes information. One prominent premise, as evident in a great number of books on sports psychology, is that the mind processes information in pictures. In these publications the reader is encouraged to use visualization techniques by closing their eyes and seeing or picturing themselves in their mind’s eye performing some aspect of their life or their sport. The reader is told that visualization skills will help them improve their physical performance, achieve their goals in sports and life, and even allow them to enhance their self image and self esteem. These books are filled with case studies and testimonials from athletes who have utilized visualization techniques with great success. This wave of success has lead to an ever increasing demand for sports psychologists to conduct visualization exercises and provide athletes with visualization skills at all levels of athletics.
25 Imperatives of Authentic Leaders
Set the tune for accountability.
Assess Your Performance
For a limited time, we are offering this new self-assessment for you to identify your top 3 and bottom 3 performance capabilities.
Leaders admit when they are wrong
If you want to be a leader you need to be willing to admit when you are wrong and when you make a mistake. I use the word “when” intentionally because it is not a matter of ‘if’, it is a matter of ‘when’ you make a mistake or a poor decision. Leaders are human. That means they are flawed and that they will make mistakes.
Intent and Impact Gap
I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Dave Mather Ed.D for the Excellence in Training Academy, a membership site for law enforcement trainers and frontline leaders. In the interview we talked about the keys to a great culture, the importance of being intentional and committed to developing a great culture and the role of frontline leaders and trainers in developing and sustaining culture.
Have you Looked in the Mirror Lately?
There is a quote from an unknown author “If you are searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror”. How ironic and applicable this anonymous quote is, not only in everyday life but also in the law enforcement profession. The last several tumultuous years in the most honorable profession has led to self-refection, self-actualization, assessment of our profession and wondering what the future holds for law enforcement? As leaders it is imperative to assess yourself, individual performanceand ask the tough questions.
I Understand Your Frustration
I understand that in an ideal world you would have great leadership at all levels of the organization, but very few people work in ideal world organization.
Shift Your Perceptions
In a recent post on LinkedIn, Dr. John Black, DBA shared the following quote from Fritof Capra:
Learning from the Apprenticeship Model?
One of the things I consistently hear from people in law enforcement is that it takes three to four years for a new officer to develop into a solid street cop. If that is true, which I believe it is, the question then becomes, “What are you doing to in that first four years to ensure they develop into the solid officer you expect?”
W.I.N. Life’s Most Powerful Question
W.I.N. is a simple but powerful acronym used by the famous college football coach Lou Holtz. It stands for ‘What’s Important Now’? Holtz would remind his players at Notre Dame to ask themselves this question thirty five times a day; when they awakened in the morning, in class and study hall, in the weight room, on the practice field, on the sidelines during a game and when on the field during games.
Are you showing expertise or just being human?
In a recent blog post Seth Godin wrote about The expertise gap. As part of that post, he wrote: