Leadership Program Reflection
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 Behaviors
I have read the pages in our binders on Neuroscience and Leadership many times 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 making changes to behaviors will cause a certain amount of pain or unpleasant feeling. My instinct […]
A lead-manage-do journey
A reflection shared by MOR Leaders alum, Jim Hall from UMN. Jim writes, “We only have so much time in a given week. How you divide your time is up to you. But where should you provide focus? Lead, manage, or do? The “lead-manage-do” concept helps us to understand the focus we need to put […]