Posts Tagged ‘Legacy Leadership’
Giving up “Because”, Keeping the F-Bomb
Many of you may know that I am on the path to earn my Master Trainer’s Certification in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP). For those of you who are unfamiliar with NLP, it is model which explains how we process information that comes to us from the outside (and our internal Negative Nelly). As both an ever evolving person and as a practitioner, I am working on being more deliberate with my use of language.
100% Accountability, Take Two
Living the Success Principles #2
I’m in the second or perhaps third week of working Principle 1 – Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life, and I admit, I am still stuck on the No Complaints rule. This is somewhat embarrassing since I harp on this one with my clients.
What I’ve noticed is that I’ve stopped complaining out loud, for the most part. I’ve replaced it with a form of blaming in my head and attached myself to inaction and unwillingness to provide negative feedback. My payoff is martyrdom. This is not a positive development.
How Inimitable Leadership Can Save the Day
Last week, I was reading an article on Gallup about how President and CEO Douglas R. Conant’s plan to revitalize Campbell’s Soup included a decade-long effort to improve employee engagement. To give you some background, Conent took over at Cambell’s about 9 years ago. Things weren’t going well. Campbell’s had one of the lowest engagement scores of any Fortune 500 ever.
Take 100% Responsibility for Your Life (Part 1)
This is the first installment of my effort to integrate the 64 Success Principles from Jack Canfield’s book of the same name.
Last week, I went to a one day live workshop with Jack Canfield, and was considering, along with the accountability partner he recommended and the mastermind group that frankly I’m not in the mood to participate in, how I could execute on the principles better. I very much like the content, and the success is in the action, not in the knowledge.
Not Buying the Solution, Not Participating in the Game
We’ve become a society of consumers, people who participate little, if at all, in the creation of what we use. There is a someone else who does almost everything for us, and that’s become a habit for us. Think that impacts engagement at work? I do.
Think about it. Who changes their oil anymore? If I could even locate the oil pan at this point, I don’t have the wrench that would get the oil filter off the car. And, it would get my nails all funky, and who wants a coach with funky nails? (I know, an excuse for everything.)
Life & Death Communications
Guys,
Here’s an exceptional article about communication, collaboration and the importance of setting the right tone: http://gmj.gallup.com/content/125291/Collaborating-Means-Communicating.aspx
Enjoy!
Be Your Best You Today,
Carolann
Creating an Inspired Workplace: Putting Everyone on the In-Team
Ever had that experience in which you brought up a really good idea and the group or leader ignored it, only to have someone else bring up that exact same idea and the group met it with excitement?
Turns out, new research has shown that the brain hears things differently based on whether the person saying them is in the “in” group” or the “out” group.
Managewhich Tip: Getting in Front of Change Through Leadership
“The enemy to real change is lip service” ~Peter Block
This is never more true than in a low trust organization. How many times have you been in meetings where heads nod in agreement only to have nothing done? It’s insidious because we think the group is on board when they aren’t.
We can work with opposition and disagreement. Honesty lets us know where we stand and know where we may need to negotiate, whereas, we often miss lip service.
Managewhich Tip: Process-Focus Ain’t a Bad Thing

Photo by Nur Hussein - find the pic on Flickr, the story is hilarious!
We hear a lot about being results-focused and results-driven. Results are important, and somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of the importance of the journey.
Case and point. In 1959, Cuba had an illiteracy rate of 23%. Post Castro revolution, in 1961, it was reduced to 4%. Let’s just say, this wasn’t the kindest of processes, and yet, if the focus was on the result to wipe out illiteracy, they were astoundingly successful.
So How are Those Resolutions Going?

On the Wagon? Photo by Craig
So, we’re about halfway through January, and even though I suggested that resolutions are a waste of time, I bet some of you made them anyway. How’s it going?
For those of you who are on track, congratulations!
For those of you who’ve already broken down, how about trying something different this year.





