Tuesday Reading

As I approach 25 years at Indiana University, I reflect on my values and how I made them uniquely me.

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.

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Ranna Farzan, Associate Director, Technology Strategy and Planning, Harvard University Information Technology and a MOR program participant.  Ranna may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. Last month, right around my first MOR workshop, I also started reading Adam Grant’s Hidden Potential as part of a book club with other […]

One of my biggest opportunities for growth is more effective delegation. Delegation is never one-size-fits-all.

I don’t know about you, but I still reflect on what I learned during my MOR workshops. A theme that was a cornerstone of our MOR experience: Presence.

When I accepted my current job, I was worried that my lack of knowledge of the day-to-day would make me an ineffective manager and leader.

The best coaches assess player skills and place them into positions where they will be most successful. Where they have the best impact on the game.

I’ll share something my grandpa told me when I was in high school: treat people as adults.

I am offering up some favorite practices and practice tips to encourage you to embrace the joy of practice.

A “word of the year.” This word signifies what you want to strive for, to intentionally consider in all your actions. A word you hope to live up to.

The key to growth is setting goals that align with your values and committing to the work to achieve them. Build systems to support your progress.

Servant Leadership is about building genuine, meaningful connections. It’s about our role as leaders to inspire, nurture, and empower.

To intelligently use AI, we must first understand how we got here. The name is more recent than the concept. Artificial intelligence is quite old.

I summited 48 mountains. A key insight: the goal when hiking is not to reach the summit; the goal is to return safely to the parking lot.

One of the simplest practices recommended in the MOR Leaders Program is the adoption of giving three gratitudes as a daily routine.

Metrics are just numbers and may not mean anything. The value emerges when they are contextualized to help understand what they represent.

If you can identify your communication style, you can more easily alter your communication to be more effective and perhaps improve that relationship.

As you engage, it will be useful to empathize with the emotions people are experiencing whether we agree with their perspective or not.

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Marion Groh Marquardt, Associate Director of Web Services at Stanford University and a MOR program alum.  Marion may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. You know how it is sometimes: we’re so focused on what we want to communicate that we overlook the crucial visual and emotional threads that […]