Leadership Participant
The Answer Is In The Room
It’s been a couple of weeks since we were all together in Bloomington and my how the time has flown by. Having had some time to digest all that we shared and learned, I still have a sense of inspiration and motivation that I hope will continue to carry on into the coming months. I […]
Questioning Questioning
When discussing leadership we tend to focus on good leadership practices. While this is important, I personally have learned a lot over the years by observing bad leadership practices which I then actively avoid. The recent MOR Tuesday Readings on asking questions made me remember one of these examples of bad leadership, which I call: […]
Planning is Planning, whether for a Scuba Dive or a Project
Hi everyone! As I think about what to reflect on this past week, I keep coming back to thoughts of scuba diving as I took my regulator in to get serviced this past weekend. Scuba divers are, most often, over-prepared in the planning and execution of a dive. Below is a little bit […]
Two Powerful Tools: Being Still and 90 Minute Blocks
I have come to enjoy and value the weekly reflections as well as Jim Bruce’s Tuesday readings. A few weeks ago in the Tuesday reading, Be Still, I was struck by the truth and simplicity of what was written in that piece. I thought to myself, why not use “being still” as the foundation for everything that […]
As a Leader, Time for MY Work Has to Come First
I thought this would get easier as time went on, but had been feeling the opposite. When I got back from Session 1, I was jazzed. Before my flight back to CT, I wrote my boss a genuine note of thanks for the opportunity to participate in the MOR program and told her about the […]
Putting it into Practice
As I reflected on what has transpired over the past several weeks, I wanted to revisit the essay that I had prepared in hopes of being selected for this wonderful leadership opportunity. Here is my original objective from that essay: “My ultimate objective is to improve the impact of my team on the customers they […]
The Value of an Outside Perspective
One of the things that I have been working on since our session in February is using the three lenses – strategic, political, and cultural – to get a multidimensional perspective on changes and projects which I am leading at the School of Music, Theater, and Dance (SMTD). As I think about perspective in this […]
The Challenge in Changing Leadership Behaviors
I have read much on Neuroscience and Leadership in the last few months. It comforts me to know why it’s so difficult to change my old habits. On some level, I realize that changing leadership behaviors will cause a certain amount of discomfort. My instinct is to remain squarely in my comfort zone. However, the […]