Tuesday Reading

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 […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Peggy Huston, Leadership Coach at MOR Associates.  Peggy may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. I like to think about many things and want to be challenged to think in ways I had not considered before.  Wandering into unknown territory of thought feels like an adventure for me.  It’s […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Kirsten Mortimer, Strategic IT Services Manager at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater and a MOR program alum.  Kirsten may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. One of my ongoing challenges is effectively delegating. Despite efforts to improve, still grappling with this fundamental aspect of leadership is frustrating. I have been […]

Today’s Tuesday Reading is from Glenn Brule, MOR Associates Leadership Coach. Glenn may be reached at [email protected] or via LinkedIn. Staying ahead of the curve requires more than intuition and luck in the ever-evolving work landscape. It demands a strategic approach that allows you to maximize your strengths, manage your weaknesses, multiply opportunities, and mitigate […]

Weeks ago, we discussed asking questions. Today, I want to focus on answering the questions that you are asked.

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