Monthly Archives: March 2017

Awesome Leaders: List of Topics

Welcome back Awesome Leaders! Here is a list of what you can look forward to over the coming months. We are going to be covering these topics in detail because they are of vital importance to our collective future. We want thriving organizations, strong marriages, healthy families, and individuals fulfilling their purpose in life. Leadership is how we make that happen.

  • Part One: Leadership of the Self
    • Personal Maturity
    • Integrated Wholeness
    • Sustainable Life Practices
  • Part Two: Leadership of the Team
    • Interpersonal Excellence
    • Strategically Developing Others
    • The Art of Consequences
  • Part Three: Leadership of the Organization
    • Daily Deliverables
    • Mission Evolution
    • Keeper of the Cultural Flame
  • Part Four: Leadership of the Community
    • Collaborative Advancement
    • Life Altering Experiences
    • Leaving a Powerful Legacy

 

See you next week, and until then be strong and know I’m praying for you!

By |2017-03-16T05:37:20-05:00March 26th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Awesome Leaders: List of Topics

Leaders My Leaders! Your Journey to Awesomeness

Hi everyone,

Welcome to the leadership series! Whether you are aspiring to your first leadership position, inspired to step up your game to an advanced or elite level, or even if you are a leader who has messed up so bad your career is all but over, this series will have something of value for you. As always, I am not a guru. You are the expert on your own situation, so trust your own gut and do your own best thinking. Take what you like in what I have to say, and jettison the rest. Let’s begin!

Leaders hold an awesome, sacred responsibility to achieve missions, grow teams, and develop individuals. You do not own your people, they are yours only for a time. Too many of our leadership colleagues are treating their organizations and teams as commodities in their quest for personal gain. Too many of them treat their people as discardable. The abuse or neglect of power carries grave consequences. Leaders are spiritually responsible for the impact they have on those under their command. Leaders who focus on anything other than improving themselves, the team, the organization, and ultimately the communities in which they operate will eventually have their choices come back to haunt them. We all reap what we sow, and the clock of accountability is ticking.

Leadership magnifies flaws. Too many of our leadership colleagues are running their teams like their dysfunctional families growing up. If leaders have not yet done the difficult work of intentionally clearing away the impact of whatever dysfunction they may have gone through, and the maladaptive coping skills they learned as a result, then it is likely they will repeat living room drama in the boardroom. It doesn’t have to be that way. Leaders who choose to put themselves through the necessary discomfort of a personal growth plan evolve into leaders who are a powerful, positive force to reckon with. Alternatively, leaders who choose to sacrifice their team on the altar of their own dysfunction will eventually encounter a rebellion that forces them to grow and evolve. If they’re lucky. The news tells us that some leaders don’t get a second chance. Some of them get fired. Some end up on the nightly news. Some end up behind bars. None of them emerge unscathed. Your mission will not succeed beyond the constraints created by the weakest leader on your roster.

Leaders my leaders, it’s time! Time to get real. Time to get serious. Time to protect those who are counting on you. Time to act with boldness and grow to the next level. Arise, and let your light shine!

Next week we’ll introduce the topics we’ll be studying for the next several months. Until then, be wise, be strategic, and stay on the grow. I’m praying for you!

By |2017-03-16T05:25:10-05:00March 19th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Leaders My Leaders! Your Journey to Awesomeness

Toxic Workplaces: Conclusion

I hope the toxic workplace blog series has provided you with some new tools for dealing with really tough work situations. Don’t ever give up. Keep fighting until you find something effective that helps you get your life back. You can make a difference, if not for your team or your organization, then at least for yourself and your family. Everyone deserves a safe, healthy, productive place to work.

If you’re interested in more information about how to apply the systematic approach to your particular situation, you can find the workbook on my website www.debhollandlcsw.com. It has a few different exercises that illustrate how to assess workplace problems. I also have a webinar on this same topic, where I go into more depth than I had time/space for in the blogs. You can find it here: https://app.webinarjam.net/register/34090/353c522c7a

No matter how bad your situation is right now, one thing is inevitable and that is it will change at some point. When and how lie largely in your hands now that you have the tools to gain the clarity and the power necessary to getting your life back. I admire your bravery in taking on the challenge, and I wish you well as you seek to be a difference maker.

Next up for the blogs: leadership!

By |2017-02-19T08:41:38-06:00March 4th, 2017|Uncategorized|Comments Off on Toxic Workplaces: Conclusion
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