Finding Your Sweet Spot: Aligning Passion, Purpose, and Performance
There are few things as powerful as the moment you find yourself in your sweet spot. These are the moments when the whole of who you are is expressed in perfect alignment with what you are doing. It is almost euphoric, as if everything around you is moving in slow motion, while within you there is an excitement and ease that gives you that sense that you are right where you are supposed to be - doing exactly what you are supposed to be doing.
‘Til Retirement Do Us Part: The Power and Challenge of Owning a Business Together
One of the most powerful and challenging relationships in the world is the relationship between co-owners of a business. They knew their partnership would open up resources and powerful ways to build together, but often there were many things they didn’t know and questions they didn’t even know how to ask each other when they signed the contract or invited someone else to take shares in what one of them had built.
Connecting Trust, Performance, and Well Being: Developing a WiLD Mindset
Every person you know has a story occurring at the center of their identity and their progress that is too often expressed as an unanswered question: How do I connect my driving purpose to what I am doing every day? We ask it in different ways, but at the core of who we are as human beings is the question that connects the invisible pieces of our hearts with the visible pieces of our actions.
How to Trust and Know a Person at Work.
Our world is so desperate for trust. We live at a time where most of us put people in boxes far too quickly - making the assumption that you are either my enemy or my friend, and those are the only two options. But, what if this is a fatal flaw in our thinking? What if there is a third option?
Anchoring Your Team In Trust | Ebook
Download our ebook inspired by the WiLD Conversation series, “Desperate for Trust in your Team”. You can listen to the WiLD Conversation Podcast for more on any of these chapters in the ebook.
DESPERATE FOR TRUST IN YOUR ORGANIZATION
We have an epidemic of trust in our world today. While some might argue that we have an epidemic of distrust in our world today, the reality is that we all trust in something, but maybe it’s the wrong thing.
EBOOK: TOP 15 TRENDING LEADERSHIP CONVERSATIONS IN 2024
At the end of 2023, we conducted a content analysis of hundreds of conversations with leaders who took part in this grand project called the WiLD Conversation. In the language of these actual leaders, the following is the heart and soul of what they are talking about and thinking about. These 15 trending conversations fell into four main categories…
WHO BELONGS ON YOUR TEAM?
Creating a culture of belonging on your team is a process of both seeing people more clearly and helping them to see each other and themselves more clearly. That’s the spirit of what WiLD Leaders is all about for teams, and it is the purpose behind the whole and intentional leader development system we built. Before I provide some actionable and practical steps forward, here are a few important things to consider regarding belonging.
HEALTH AND FINANCES: 7 Ways to Reconsider Fulfillment in Your Daily Life
What do you need to live your best whole and intentional life, and what is the relevance to our work in the area of whole and intentional leader development?
10 Tips for Moving from Technical Expertise to Leadership Expertise
Our deeply rooted competence in a technical area often provides the springboard into the deep end of our leadership capacity.
There Are No Shortcuts To Lasting Change
If you are reading this, you already know that developing the capacity of your leaders is one of the most important moves on your strategic agenda. The question isn't whether or not it's important, but how to actually do it. Deep and lasting change in human beings who are leading takes time. Change doesn't happen overnight, but we often buy in to solutions that tell us it does. Developing whole and intentional leaders is achievable, but it does take an ongoing commitment to invest in their whole story.
What would change if you had whole and intentional leaders, exceptional teams, and a culture that worked for you rather than against you? Every one of us knows that the answer is that everything would change. Our leaders set the tone, our teams get it done, and the culture keeps us in it.
10 Strategies for University Department Chairs and Deans
Being a department chair or dean on a university campus is one of the most challenging quasi-management jobs in the world. I describe it as quasi-management because most academics don’t see the job as a management job, and yet, it has all the same attributes of any other leadership role without being felt as one. While the job looks different in many contexts, the reality is that being a leader of an academic department isn’t something any of us prepared for, or in some cases, even desired. Nevertheless, these roles are some of the most important jobs on a university campus.
Where the Enneagram will leave you wanting more...
We all have our pet profile…our favorite…and why do we like them? What is it about these tools that draws us in?
10 Questions to Build Leadership Continuity
How do you ensure leadership continuity in your organization? I cannot tell you how many times we’ve been asked, “Does your whole and intentional leader development system do succession planning?” It’s a great question. At the risk of answering a question with a question, we usually follow up with, “What do you mean by succession planning?”
5 Steps to Invite Change
There are different ways to arrive at a place of change, but there's one we recommend…
DIFFERENCE + SAMENESS: Whole Leader Development and Diversity, Equity, + Inclusion
Over the past months, Rob and I have become friends and have learned so much from one another. So, as we sought to write something together regarding the relevance of whole leader development, we decided to write it as a dialogue - a conversation between us designed to explain the intentions behind the toolkit in reference to our own personal journey of inclusion and exclusion, and as a way to project where the conversation regarding differences and similarities across our contexts may be going next.
Whole Leaders in Corporate Security and Law Enforcement
Until security and law enforcement are done by robots, reform will always be about human beings.
Leadership Lessons From My TEDx Journey
Doing a TEDx has been a developmental goal of mine for the last 10 years. It was born out of 25 years of integration of my understanding of psychological science, my experience of leaders and my own experience of leading, and something deeper in my faith and what I experience in the world of leaders every day.
2 Page PDF | WHOLE + INTENTIONAL LEADER DEVELOPMENT: The 10 Scientific Truths
What would change if we intentionally prepared a generation of courageous and sacrificial leaders who will bring thoughtfulness, conviction, hope, resourcing, strategic thinking, and deeply rooted care to the institutions and people they serve?