Change is hard. It doesn’t usually come naturally. And at the end of the day, when we change we have made a choice.
And as leaders, when we are trying to lead change at work, we are asking our team to be “all in” – to make a choice to change.
Unfortunately, most change leadership communication is about the change itself. This is important of course, but we’re missing three key components when we’re communicating about change. Check out the video below to see what you might be missing in your change leadership.
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Routines are wonderful things. When we have a routine, we no longer have to think about it. We are able to operate automatically, freeing up our brains for other things. Morning routines are especially important as they allow us the opportunity to start the day off successfully and productively.
In this video, I am giving you four key idea to think about as you create, re-create or re-adjust your morning routines.
1. Prepare your body
2. Prepare your mind.
3. Prepare your attitude.
4. Prepare your focus.
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Now, you might already know that I grew up on a farm, and so I have plenty of farm phrases in my vernacular. Some of these phrases wouldn’t make any sense to you. But some of those farm phrases are things you’ve either heard before or maybe even heard here on this blog last week. You can watch that episode right here.
So last week we talked about making hay, and today we’re talking about gathering eggs, and specifically about not putting all your eggs in one basket.
Now, I don’t have nearly as much personal experience with eggs as I do with making hay. But think about it for a second. If you’ve got a basket that you’re using to collect eggs and as you’re putting them in one cracks. Well then, you have a problem. Even worse, if you drop the bucket, you lose all the eggs.
So what’s the point for us as leaders? Well, there are several things for us to think about here. And I’m starting the video with one of my favorite thoughts in business: One is a dangerous number.
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I grew up on a farm, and so I have plenty of agricultural phrases in my vernacular, but actually all of us have some of those phrases. For example: Don’t put all your eggs in one basket. Yep, that’s a farm phrase. And hint, I’m going to talk about it next week. But for now we’re talking about this phrase:
Make hay when the sun is shining.
Now, you may have never made hay. You may not know what that means but you’ve probably heard the phrase. Here’s the backstory. Hay is made from growing crop (grass, alfalfa and clover most frequently), and it is cut when it’s very green and very moist, a growing plant. However it must be dry before it can be bailed up to be used and stored.
So you can cut hay when it’s raining, but you can’t make hay and bale it when it’s raining. The sun’s got to be shining. The crops need to be dry. There’s a limited time window. Make hay when the sun is shining. So here’s the point for us as leaders.
Culture seems to be the latest buzzword, yet the employee experience is important. Let’s face it, employees have a choice of where they want to work. Chris Edmonds and Mark Babbitt sit down with Kevin to talk about culture and that it doesn’t have to suck. You have a role to play and when you equally value respect and results, profits go up.
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The great resignation has been all over the press and all in the media. Everyone’s talking about it and many people are participating in it. I recently recorded a video with personal lessons from the great resignation. You can watch that here.
But today we are talking specifically about what the great resignation means for leaders. There are major challenges for every leader and there are also some great lessons. We’ll explore those in the video below.