Posts Tagged ‘leadership’
Be a Meeting Maestro
If you seek to lead better meetings, follow these tips to becoming a meeting maestro: Set clear objectives Create an agenda Invite relevant participants Start and end on time Facilitate participation Stay focused Encourage productive conflict Use technology wisely Take minutes and assign action items Follow up For more information on holding productive meetings, check… Continue Reading Be a Meeting Maestro
Read MoreMy Favorite Reads in 2022
As a regular subscriber to The Fit Leader blog, you know that I am an avid reader, and often make references to books in my posts. As we near the end of 2022, I’m happy to share my favorite reads for the year. Lifelines for Leaders by David Chinsky The Art of Gathering: How… Continue Reading My Favorite Reads in 2022
Read MoreWhen Open-Ended Questions Don’t Work
When was the last time you asked an open-ended question and it didn’t work? Many of us have been taught the value of open-ended questions, the type of questions that can’t be answered with a “Yes” or a “No”. Questions like: “What can I do to help?” This is a great question that invites the… Continue Reading When Open-Ended Questions Don’t Work
Read MoreThe Resiliency Reserve
If there is one thing that organizations are learning in these volatile, uncertain and complex times, it is the importance of both organizational and personal resilience – the ability to withstand shocks, and remain sustainable under prolonged periods of change. Richard Barrett, founder of the Barrett Values Centre, offers the following checklist of actions to… Continue Reading The Resiliency Reserve
Read MoreAn Anxious Team
It is not unreasonable to expect team members facing the uncertainties associated with a global pandemic to be anxious, and increasingly so as one countermeasure after another is put into place by their organizations and by their government to fight the novel coronavirus. Leaders, themselves, are anxious and this is how human beings normally react… Continue Reading An Anxious Team
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