Relationships

Leading with kindness transforms teams, fosters growth and trust, and is a superpower that elevates leadership, coaching, and collaboration.

People are under stress and feeling threatened. Show appreciation, offer positive feedback, and talk openly.

Emotional Intelligence wasn’t always a concept I grasped fully. I hadn’t realized my emotions communicated even when my words didn’t.

Pause, Process, Plan, and People. As you navigate through uncertainty toward trust; trust in self, an intentional path, and the people around you.

Intentional relationship building is a cornerstone of effective leadership. You can make meaningful strides by integrating the 4 I’s in your routine.

What transforms a group unfamiliar with each other into an inclusive, close-knit cohort that genuinely wants to help one another grow?

Leaders influence the growth and development of their staff. They choose assignments, assemble teams, and provide direction. Two other significant leadership competencies to develop are the ability to provide feedback and feedforward. Feedback refers to sharing observations about behaviors that have happened or are happening, and feedforward refers to anticipating future growth opportunities. In both […]

Have you had a week where everything seems to be going wrong? We must change the situation by putting one foot in front of the next to solve it.

These transformational words are common in leadership journeys. Often, it’s parents who believed. It could also be a colleague or a friend, like you.

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Laura Patterson, Leadership Coach and Consultant at MOR Associates.  She previously was CIO at the University of Michigan. Laura can be found on LinkedIn and can be reached at [email protected]. More than 19 million workers left the workplace between April 2021 and February 2022, a record pace that disrupted business […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Marcia Dority Baker, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates.  Marcia may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. Editorial Note: This is the last Tuesday Reading of 2022.  The next Tuesday Reading will be in January. ]     “You want to be the pebble in the pond that creates the ripples […]

Being fully present provides the opportunity for us to be intentional in sending messages of sincere interest and make meaningful connections.

Most of us would disavow being a micromanager.  Yet, I’m sure that most (or all?) of us have micromanaged to some extent at some points in our careers.  I know I have.  And, most of us at some point have experienced leaders micromanaging us. But micromanaging has some very real negative impacts on both employees and […]

What makes a great leader?  I posted this question in a Google search and received a long list of important traits for a great leader, such as integrity, good communication, agility, influence, empathy, courage, respect, knowledge, etc.  While all of these are important, what I don’t see in my search is self-awareness of being a […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Bill Wrobleski. Bill is currently on a trail somewhere in rural France. Need to find him? Check billonthecamino.com or email him at [email protected].]   Tomorrow, I head out on a 1,000-mile pilgrimage across France and Spain. For over seventy-days, I’ll be walking the Camino de Santiago, a series of well-worn trails […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Molly Sharp, Service Management Programs Director at Stanford University. It is a reflection on what she is learning as a current MOR program participant.  Molly may be reached at [email protected].]   Over the months since I began the MOR program, I’ve been evolving my thinking about the purpose of the […]

College is perhaps one of the biggest decisions many people make. The power of a first impression is real and on full display in the visiting process.

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Mark Askren, MOR Associates Leadership Coach, and former Vice President for IT at the University of Nebraska. Mark may be reached at [email protected].] As leaders, we’re always on stage. Our staff, colleagues, campus stakeholders, clients, and the people we report to are paying attention to our work behaviors. What we say […]

[Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Brian McDonald, President of MOR Associates.  Brian may be reached at [email protected].] Just imagine if all the people who have been through a MOR leadership experience within your university could form a cohesive community of change agents who collaborate to propel the initiatives needed to make transformational progress versus incremental. Community […]

This week we’re going to do something different and start with the results of last week’s survey.   From Last Week  Last week, we asked: Which of these practices is most important to you? 41% said building relationships 27% said weekly planning 19% said owning your calendar / defensive calendaring 13% said delegating whenever possible […]