I’ve often been asked what Leadership style/method do I use as well as listening to what others prescribe. I’ve always found this an odd question because I’ve always thought one of the great components of a great Leadership style is being able to switch up your style based on a variety of factors in play – environment, people, delivery, projects, – and many more. However, if there are three components that I believe every Leader…
Someone makes a wrong assumption – they must be evil. Someone accidentally sends you a connection request – it must be automated. Someone tries something new and fails – they don’t know what they are doing. Someone makes a suggestion without knowing all the facts – they couldn’t be bothered wasting their time to read your work. We can always choose to assume you the worst or we could start assuming the best and see…
What’s the value of an anonymous up click on a skill someone might not really know that you have when instead you can post a video of what you do? Or better yet have a customer create that video, staring at their phone saying how you helped them solve a problem. The Endorsements model is a great idea in theory but fraught with inconsistency as you can very easily endorse everyone on the page without…
It’s not easy to do when around you everyone wants something. They want what everyone else is doing and achieving. They want the overnight success that others are achieving. They want to reach their goals faster and sooner than the last guy. But they aren’t ready for it because they haven’t quantified the need. They haven’t figured out what they need to do before they can start wanting something. These are the hardest conversations with…
On a recent episode of The Sniffing Markers Podcast, we talked about Fear and Anxiety and which ways we both try to get over it. Not being a psychologist in any way, shape or form the only way I have ever found to work through my own Anxiety is to break it into as many steps as possible and tackle each one at a time. Each alone are minuscule and useless, but together they can get…